C455 TASK 4.docx C455 Combating Human Trafficking in the United States Western Gove

C455   TASK 4.docx  C455  Combating Human  Trafficking  in the United States  Western Governors University  TASK 3 Topic:  Causes of Human  Trafficking in the United States  Presently, the United States is facing the horrifying reality that humans never stopped being owned. When Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Americans believed they had  abolished slavery  however, worldwide there  are  more people are living in slavery  now than there  were  in the Civil War era. As writer and activist Alyssa Cole said,  €œI care  because as long as slavery is sanctioned in this world, either directly or tacitly, we are  a doomed species. There  is no hope  for progress, no hope  for a world of peace and  prosperity €¦ € (Cole, A., 2019).  While this is a growing issue in the United States, there  are  effective ways the government can  address the challenges, such  as strengthening victim identificatio