SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (Border Report) -- Law enforcement officers and advocates for victims of human and sex trafficking on Monday highlighted the dangers women often face when they cross the border illegally from Mexico.

Discussions about forced labor, sexual exploitation and Texas having the second-most hotline reports for those crimes kicked off the second annual "Conference on Crimes Against Women Summit: Beyond the Bounds" on Monday morning in the border beach town of South Padre Island.

At any given time, over 313,000 people could be victims of trafficking in Texas, conference officials said.

Keynote speaker Joseph Scaramucci, a detective from Waco, told Border Report that holding the two-day conference at the border brings attention to crimes committed at the border.

“When w

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