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applegrove

(118,501 posts)
Wed May 1, 2019, 08:35 PM May 2019

How bout federal money to DNA test all rape kits first?

US government to give DNA tests at border to check for fraud

By Colleen Long/AP at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/us-government-to-give-dna-tests-at-border-to-check-for-fraud/2019/05/01/7e9cee74-6c57-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.feb23f913aa6

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will begin voluntary DNA testing in cases where officials suspect that adults are fraudulently claiming to be parents of children as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

The decision comes as Homeland Security officials are increasingly concerned about instances of child trafficking as a growing number of Central American families cross the border, straining resources to the breaking point. Border authorities also recently started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 and younger, including fingerprints, despite privacy concerns and government policy that restricts what can be collected.

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t say where the DNA pilot program would begin, but they did say it would start as early as next week and would be very limited.

The DNA testing will happen once officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which manages border enforcement, refer possible instances of fraud to ICE, which usually manages interior enforcement. But teams from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations were recently deployed to the southern border to help investigate human smuggling efforts.

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