With a tidal wave of foreign migrants set to surge over the U.S./Mexico border with the end of COVID restrictions, the Biden administration will reportedly stop DNA testing children to prove they are related to the adults claiming to be their parents or family members.
Immigration laws allow children to cross with their parents to seek asylum, but statistics show many children are not related to the claimed parents and many are being sexually trafficked or forced to smuggle drugs.
Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI), chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, and members of the subcommittee now investigating reports the Biden administration will end familial DNA testing used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to confirm claimed family unit relationships.
“In a letter to Acting Commissioner of CBP, the lawmakers are calling on CBP to provide documents, communications, and a staff level briefing to understand how children are being protected from the risk of being exploited or trafficked,” the Committee reports.
“The Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs is investigating concerning reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will cease familial DNA testing of purported family units on May 31, 2023, due to the expiration of CBP’s contract with BODE Technologies. CBP has contracted with BODE Technologies since 2019 to perform rapid DNA testing services to confirm claimed family unit relationships. To assist the Subcommittee in understanding how CBP intends to ensure the safety of vulnerable children at risk of being exploited or trafficked, we request CBP provide documents and information, as well as a staff-level briefing,” Grothman and subcommittee members write in an official letter to CBP.
“President Biden’s open borders agenda has created a humanitarian crisis that encourages the trafficking of migrant children into the United States. In fiscal year 2022, 2.76 million migrants illegally crossed the southern border. Cartels have exploited President Biden’s disastrous border policies to create one of the largest human trafficking and smuggling operations in the world. An estimated 60 percent of unaccompanied minors crossing the border are forced into child pornography and drug trafficking by cartels,” the Committee reveals.
“Since 2019, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have performed familial DNA testing on some family units to ensure the safety and security of minors and prevent them from being exploited by adults. This testing has led DHS to detect numerous attempts of familial fraud at the southern border. Additionally, a DHS Inspector General report found that 1 in 10 children who underwent DNA testing were not related to the adults claiming to be relatives. Other reports have found that as many as 3 in 10 children share no familial relation whatsoever to the adults claiming them,” the lawmakers write.
They ask CBP to turn over:
1. An unredacted copy of a May 19, 2023 CBP Memorandum entitled “End of Contract for Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Testing for Suspected Family Unit Fraud”;
2. All documents and communications within CBP related to the decision not to continue the use of DNA testing for suspected fraudulent family units on or after May 31, 2023;
3. All documents and communications between any CBP official and any other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component or DHS headquarters official related to the decision not to continue the use of DNA testing for suspected fraudulent family units on or after May 31, 2023.
This clown gotta be impeached.