Biden’s Border Crisis & The Impact on Human Trafficking in Florida
Bottom Line: Day after day, week after week, month after month and now even year after year, President Biden and his administration have taken direct actions to undermine our country’s immigration laws and to encourage illegal immigration into this country. A day one action by President Biden was to end the construction of the southern border wall. In fact, not only was it a day one priority to prevent the previously paid for southern border wall from being finished, but President Biden also spent billions in taxpayer dollars ending previously agreed to contracts with the contractors who were already in place constructing the wall. It was immediately clear what the priority of the Biden Administration was. To enable and encourage illegal border crossers. And the message was immediately received.
The initial illegal border crossers were so emboldened they wore shirts with Joe Biden’s likeness on them. Since the early weeks of the record influx of illegal immigrants under this administration, there’s been another clear takeaway. The message that our southern border is wide open has been received. Through the previous fiscal year ended Last September, a total of 4.9 million illegal border crossings into the United States had taken place. Since then, an additional 1.5+ million have come across. The total number of illegal immigrants which have crossed our southern border since Joe Biden became president, now total greater than 6.4 million or a population of people that would be the 18th largest state in the country if they were categorized as such. And while there are commonly images and stories of desperate people seeking a better life in our country perpetuated by the Biden Administration and his advocates in news media, commonly there are evil doers by the masses within the masses.
While the fentanyl crisis and related drug trafficking crimes are most commonly a direct byproduct of our open border (92% of fentanyl makes its way in by traffickers across the southern border), the human trafficking toll is one which isn’t usually discussed, and the catalysts aren’t usually known. Tuesday, when signing a series of human trafficking bills into to law, in addition to announcing that Florida would be sending extensive resources to the southern border, Governor DeSantis painted a picture of the toll the open border has had on human trafficking. According to the governor, 72% of all human trafficking victims in Florida are illegal immigrants. That's stunning in a state which has the third highest number of human trafficking victims in the country and is no doubt indicative of what’s happening elsewhere. The story needs to be told. Want to end most prostitution and human trafficking rings in Florida? End the steady flow of illegal immigrants into it.