Human trafficking is a significant, but difficult to detect problem in Houston and throughout Texas. Houston is known as a hub for human trafficking, involving young women brought here for prostitution due to our proximity to the Mexican border. A quarter of all trafficking victims rescued in the United States are in Texas, primarily Houston (McCall). In 2011 alone, numerous human trafficking arrests were made in the Houston area and several brothels were closed. However, the FBI reports that at least two new brothels are opening monthly in Houston (Palmer). There are several ways to fight human trafficking, including getting informed, spreading the word, looking around your community, talking to children and teens, and participating in anti-human trafficking groups. The definition of human trafficking is defined as: recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring or receiving persons through the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of power of a position of vulnerability or of donating or receiving sums or benefits to obtain the consent of someone who has authority over another, for the purpose of exploitation (Rome). Some of the major forms of human trafficking are forced labor, sex trafficking, bonded labor, debt bondage, involuntary domestic servitude, forced child labor, child soldiers, and child sex trafficking (Department of State of the United States). Another way to explain human trafficking is to say that it is equivalent to modern slavery. The problem is not limited to the Houston area, although Houston is considered a major traffic hub and a major destination. The victim... half of paper...". ABC News. August 30, 2011. Network. December 7, 2011. .Palmer, Mark. “Sex trafficking is modern slavery.” facts and statistics. Bringing Hope, 2004. Web. 7 Dec 2011. “Reducing Demand Campaign.” Web log post. Freeing prisoners from human trafficking in Houston. 31 October 2011. Web. 11 December 2011..Roma, Aron. “Human trafficking.” . Np, nd Web. 7 December 2011. .Talati, Ronak. "Human trafficking". . Emergency Healthcare Workers and Web. 8 December 2011. US Department of State, . "Office for monitoring and combating trafficking in persons". . Department of State, 2011. Web. December 7 2011. .