Could Biden's unaccompanied migrant policy boost child trafficking?

El Cajon, Calif., Mayor Bill Wells says he is “very afraid” that some of the children at the border may be involved in “the most horrific form of sex trafficking.”

“It’s something serious. We have to stop this. This is not America,” Wells said.

Officials on the front lines say Biden's executive action to restrict asylum has no deterrent effect and that little has changed.

The long-awaited presidential proclamation bars migrants from being granted asylum when U.S. officials believe the southern border has been breached. The order will take effect when the number of border crossings between ports of entry reaches 2,500 per day, according to senior administration officials.

According to the latest data obtained by NewsNation, there has not been a single day since its implementation where the Border Patrol encountered fewer than 2,500 migrants, exceeding that number by 1,000 almost every day.

Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who last week left the Democratic Party to become an independent, is leading 45 of his Senate Republican colleagues on a resolution to overturn the Biden administration's child care rule unaccompanied migrants.

“We are facing a crisis on our southern border and its human consequences are absolutely devastating. I have repeatedly called on President Biden to use his executive powers to shut it down and combat the cycles of exploitation that illegal immigration enables. Instead, the administration is allowing rules like this to jeopardize the safety of migrant children and place them in the hands of unverified sponsors,” Manchin said in a statement.