Organizations try to crack down on human trafficking in Europe.
Which are poverty and, more importantly, lack of possibilities for legal migration to industrialized countries, all the work that we are doing on this issue will be like a drop in the sea. Undeniably, human traffic is a significant facet of transnational organized crime, a lucrative business with profits ranging from five to seven billion dollars a year. For the human cargo involved it is a less gainful operation. Hundreds died while crossing the Mediterranean, others freeze to death in refrigerated trucks or are suffocated by fumes in the holds of ferries. The problem has received widespread international attention.