Border Safe Houses See Fewer Trafficking Victims amid Trump Immigration Crackdown
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By Ryan Mills
March 30, 2025 6:30 AM
At her safe houses in northwest Mexico, Alma Tucker has seen first-hand the horrors of human trafficking — the teen girls forced to have sex with their smugglers, the victimized boys who suffer in silence, the young migrants made to serve as drug mules.
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Tucker’s nonprofit, the San Diego-based International Network of Hearts, provides shelter and care for young victims of human trafficking, particularly in Mexico’s Baja California region. There was no shortage of victims amid the Biden administration’s border chaos.
But things have slowed drastically in recent months, particularly after President Donald Trump resumed office in January. “The Invasion of our Country is OVER,” Trump declared on his Truth Social platform in early March touting his early success at the border.
Amid Trump’s border crackdown, illegal crossings have plummeted — U.S. Border Patrol agents reported just over 8,300 apprehensions of unlawful border crossers in February, fewer than 300 per day, the lowest number in decades. By comparison, Border Patrol agents stopped at least 130,000 illegal border crossers every February in 2022, 2023, and 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
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