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(CNSNews.com) - President Donald Trump announced Friday that he sent 2,500 military personnel to the southern border to help the Border Patrol with migrant caravans that are heading to the U.S.



“There are three caravans heading our way. If we had a wall, it wouldn’t be a problem, but we’ve sent 2,500 military down to help Border Patrol and law enforcement, and I have to say the military’s done an incredible job, including helping us with some walls and some fences,” he said during a meeting on human trafficking.



The president said unsecured borders give traffickers “free and clear passage” to bring victims into the U.S., and it’s a “big moneymaker for some very, very bad people.”



“In fiscal year 2018, ICE made more than 1,500 trafficking arrests with 97 percent of that for sex trafficking, and it’s a big movement now because of the Super Bowl,” Trump said. “And then I have people like Nancy Pelosi and Democrats that say, ‘We don’t need a wall,’ and they come through areas where you don’t have any form of barrier protection.”



Several people were on hand to talk about human trafficking, including former DHS Special Agent and advocate Timothy Ballard, who detailed the case of a 13-year-old girl from Central America who was kidnapped and “trafficked across a section of our border without a wall and then horribly abused in captivity while in New York City - taken right through a certain section where there is no wall.”



“Even one woman or one child trafficked is too many, but there are thousands and thousands and thousands, and it’s billions of dollars of money flowing into the pockets of some very bad criminals,” Trump said.



That’s why building a wall is so important, he said, because “human trafficking by airplane is almost impossible.”



“Human trafficking by van and truck and the back seat of a car and going through a border where there’s nobody for miles and miles and there’s no wall to protect. It’s very easy,” the president said.



“The Democrats can play their game, but if you watch them in interviews, they want to get off that subject so fast, because there’s no way they can justify the fact that a wall works. It works so well. I watched them the other day. I watched a couple of high-ranking Democrats try to explain that walls were not necessary. Really?” Trump said. “They’re immoral.”