With the onset of a global financial crisis, there has been a shrinking global demand for labor and a growing supply of workers willing to take additional risks for employment. These trends will likely increase the numbers of persons trafficked in the coming year. The two largest source countries for trafficked persons in the United States are Mexico and East Asia, but victims also come from South Asia, Central America, Africa, and Europe.14Box 1 lists common ways that girls and women become victims of trafficking.