Human Smuggling Vs. Human Trafficking

What's the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking?

Human trafficking is often confused with human smuggling, which involves illegal border crossings. However, the crime of human trafficking does not require any movement whatsoever.

Survivors can be recruited and trafficked in their own hometowns, even their own homes.

Human trafficking involves exploiting men, women, or children for the purposes of forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.

Human smuggling involves the provision of a service—typically, transportation or fraudulent documents—to an individual who voluntarily seeks to gain illegal entry into a foreign country.

Human smuggling can quickly turn into human trafficking. But the two are not one and the same.