President Donald J. Trump is Fighting to Prevent Human Trafficking at the Southern Border

The White House ^ | February 1, 2019 | President Donald Trump

[Texas Fossil]

"This is an urgent humanitarian issue. My Administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to confront this threat, to support the victims and survivors, and to hold traffickers accountable for their heinous crimes."

President Donald J. Trump

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS AT THE BORDER: There is a humanitarian crisis at the southern border as human traffickers victimize countless women and children.

• Transnational criminal organizations from Mexico and Central America engage in human trafficking in staggering numbers across our southern border.
• Human traffickers use loopholes in our immigration laws to exploit women and children.
  • More than 30% of women are sexually assaulted on the journey to our southern border.
  • Nearly 70% of migrants traveling north to the United States are victims of violence.
• In FY 2018, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) made 1,588 Human Trafficking arrests and identified 308 victims.
  • Of the 1,588 arrests, 1,543 were for sex trafficking violations.
• Without a wall, our southern border is wide open to human trafficking.

MORAL OBLIGATION: Democrats and Republicans have a moral obligation to build a wall to protect children and women from human trafficking.

• Congress has a moral responsibility to pass legislation that strengthens border security and includes funding for a wall to prevent human trafficking in all forms.
• We need a wall to provide an effective barrier to entry to help decrease kidnapping and human trafficking along the border.
• Despite Democrats’ objections, there is proof that walls deter illegal entry.
• Areas with walls have seen a decline in apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the border.
  • In San Diego, illegal traffic dropped 92% over the past 23 years.
  • In the El Paso sector, illegal traffic dropped 72% in one year and 95% over 22 years.
  • In the Tucson sector, illegal traffic dropped 90% over 15 years.
  • In the Yuma sector, illegal traffic dropped 95% over 9 years.

ADMINISTRATION PRIORITY: President Trump has made stopping human trafficking an Administration priority.

• As one of his first acts as President, he signed an executive order to combat transnational criminal organizations that engage in trafficking and exploit people.
• Last year, the President signed the Abolish Human Trafficking Act (S. 1311) to strengthen programs supporting survivors and resources for combating modern slavery.
• Additionally, the President signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (S. 1312), establishing new prevention, prosecution, and collaboration initiative to bring human traffickers to justice.
• The President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) is working to prosecute and combat human trafficking at home and abroad.
• Reaffirming this Administration’s commitment to ending human trafficking, President Trump proclaimed January 2019 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
• In January, the President signed the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (S. 1862) that tightens criteria for countries to meet for eliminating trafficking.

[SkyDancer]

We’re the only country that does this.

[4Runner]

So now the problem at the border is that the poor innocent little illegals are being taken advantage of by meanie predators and oh heavens the real reason for the border wall is so that "compassionate Americans" can "protect" the poor babies who we really love so very much.

Now we have Obama's neutered hand-wringing and foot-washing military brigade at the border. No wonder the illegals who are already here hate and disrespect us so much.

Can you blame them? They see weakness and fear everywhere they look in this stupid country that has literally given these criminal hordes everything they have taken.

And the highest levels of government now sanctify the border jumpers as "victims".

[Lurkinanloomin]

Bush League Republicans will fight to keep the borders open just as hard as Democrats.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, and it was originally aimed at ending the English practice of conscripting our citizens who where “born” English subjects into their Navy, long after the Revolution.

[Vaduz]

Lobbyists give a wink and a nod.

[Openurmind]

This is the right message to put out there. I puts the left on the spot for looking inhumane.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“Votes, Power and Money. And maintaining power forever.”

Marxist tyranny.

That’s the future they want.

We will have to fight...literally, not figuratively as in politics...to stop them.

[trebb]

The leader leads.

Yepper....

[Texas Fossil]

You may be correct. If that happens, I think the vet/rural/hunter/Xmil crowd will end it quickly.

[Texas Fossil]

Trump is smart. He has made some calls I would not have. Some of them worked out right for him, he made some that were not, but he always corrected.

He is a great president. In spite of the crap from the Media.