human trafficking is a violation of the Human Rights as well as the lowering of a person’s dignity and therefore calls for a higher sentence in prison to act as a warning and a lesson to other individuals with similar mindsets. The amendment act of 2008 demands that the Federal Bureau of Investigations to bring forth more details that are related to human trafficking and as well break down the classes of prostitution and the monetalized sex act arrests in the similar crime reports (Santos

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2016).

Amy

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and Jessica Reichert. “”Using US Law-Enforcement Data: Promise and Limits in Measuring Human Trafficking.”” Journal of Human Trafficking 3.1 (2017): 39-60.

Noël

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et al. Human trafficking by the numbers: The initial benchmark of prevalence and economic impact for Texas. Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (IDVSA)

the awareness of the human trafficking in the state increased leading to the recognition of the need for additional training and collaboration among the parties entrusted with the law enforcement. As a result to this urge

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legislation in the year 2009 was enacted creating the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task force whose primary purpose was to coordinate a statewide response to the human trafficking (Busch-Armendariz et al. 2016). The task force is mandated to increase collaboration among the law enforcement agencies

Texas in the year 2003 introduced a state human trafficking law that made Washington and Texas become ghetto first two states in the nation to make laws that regarded human trafficking as a criminal activity (Butler

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2015). The act established for the criminal definitions for the forced services or labor and trafficking. Apart from the definition

2016). The federal government contributes the lump sum of the money to empower the local government to carry out the research and evidence of the cases of human trafficking within their boundaries and bring to justice the culprits of the law. Texas

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being one of the states that make the US enjoys this privilege where it gets the money from the national government and uses in pooling up resources that are of significant help to enforcing the law against human trafficking. Some of the resources that are essential to the monitoring and reporting include the human resources that need to travel and carry out the actual law implementation on the ground thus acting as the eyes and ears of the state. The individuals performing this actual implementation need to be paid to perform their duties as expected. Therefore

as well as the local law enforcement agencies

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have a joint role in maintaining and regulating human trafficking within the borders and providing security to its people within the state and federal boundaries (Resnik

2017). The legislations have added offences for that include being a beneficiary of the forced labor and the services

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forging the age of a minor victim from under 14 years to under 18 years of age. The law also requires of the posting of the national human trafficking hotline in the overnight lodging establishments that have been deemed a nuisance due to the activities carried out at the premises that may include sex trafficking.