You're mixing up human trafficking (which is always exploitative) with human smuggling (which may or may not be exploitative). Longer comment here: https://lemmy.ca/post/71542429/25593898

Ok yeah unhinged take, thanks for confirming

You're mixing up human trafficking (which is always exploitative) with human smuggling (which may or may not be exploitative). Longer comment here: https://lemmy.ca/post/71542429/25593898

By any definition of human trafficking, keeping slaves would qualify as that, freeing slaves would not.