During a roundtable meeting with farmers, President Donald Trump remarked that his proposed border wall would help restrain human trafficking.

"The wall is going to get built, and the wall is going to stop drugs, and it's going to stop a lot of people from coming in that shouldn't be here, and it's going to have a huge effect on human trafficking, which is a tremendous problem in this world," Trump said.

"A problem that nobody talks about — but it's a problem that's probably worse than any time in the history of this world," he added. "Human trafficking, what's going on."

But experts and even Trump's own Department of Homeland Security said they are unable to guarantee that the wall would have any impact the rate of trafficking.

Dottie Laster, executive director of the Heidi Search Center in San Antonio said if the traffickers have trouble getting in to the United States, they could use different paths as leverage over their victims. Conversely, it could also be a potential deterrent. Nearly half of all border apprehensions occur near the southernmost tip of Texas.