January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month

How about U.S. citizens purchasing wives from the Philippines?
How about ethnic orientals in the U.S. selling their daughters and neices as brides here in the U.S.?
How about ethnic middle easterners in the U.S. selling their daughters as brides here in the U.S.?

Is this OK because it is cultural? If this is not "trafficking" what is?

Arlen, Do they come with a return warranty?
Now on a serious note, it may well be trafficking, but is it done purely for monetary gain, or with the possibility of a better life in our country?

Try buying one without money. The orientals already live here, as do the middle eastern people. The sales are made within the borders of the U.S.
These sales are not made to caucasians, but within their own community.
(Buying Filipinos is most usually between a caucasian and someone in the Philippines.)

Trafficking pure and simple. If you were "sold" from a nation where the life expectancy was near zero for a young person, there might be an alternate reason.