CPAC’s International Summit Against Human Trafficking Welcomes Top Trump Officials
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The third annual International Summit Against Human Trafficking hosted by CPAC and Kaleido welcomed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Border Czar Tom Homan, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and more for productive conversations on how the Trump administration, legislative bodies, the judicial system, and private sector partners are working to end human trafficking.
The Biden administration lost over 300,000 children and removed over 70% of agents from the frontlines. President Trump and his administration is righting this wrong.
“We have several agencies that have become specifically skilled and trained to fight human trafficking,” shared Noem. In addition, to training and deploying “the best in the world at going after traffickers”, the DHS under Noem's leadership has eliminated obstacles in court to prosecuting traffickers, has resumed DNA testing at the border, and has relocated and found more than 10,000 children.
Border Czar Tom Homan blamed the Biden administration’s drastic removal of agents for the uptick in trafficking in the last four years.
“When you remove 70% of agents off the line, that’s when bad things happen, that’s when trafficking exploded to historic highs, that’s when sex trafficking exploded to historic highs, that’s when fentanyl came across and killed a quarter of a million Americans, that’s when we went from 14 on the terror watch list during Trump 45 to over 400 under Joe Biden,” said Homan.
The Trump administration is flipping the script on traffickers at the southern border by once again empowering border agents to do their job of vetting immigrants and preventing dangerous criminals from entering the country.
On the legislative side, Speaker Mike Johnson led House Republicans in passing the One Big Beautiful Bill and its border security measures that promise to make a world of difference in cutting off the flow of human trafficking.
“What we did with the One Big Beautiful Bill is not just reduce taxes, not just cut spending, not just restore American energy dominance and restore us to peace through strength and common sense in strength and safety net programs and all the rest, but arguably one of the most important things that we’ve done in our lifetimes is ensure that the border is secure once again, and we got that done,” stated Johnson.
The federal government has made a complete 180 from just seven months ago. The Trump administration, Congress, and judicial branch are making a comprehensive, multi-faceted effort to tackle human trafficking. CPAC’s third annual International Summit Against Human Trafficking brought the top players in this effort together to further strengthen relationships and increase the impact of each’s initiatives as they continue over the next three years of the Trump administration.
