According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 211,000 migrant encounters were logged in the month of April; nearly two-thirds of them were single adults. The rest were families or migrants accompanied by children —at least, that’s what they claim.
According to Just The News, reports indicate as many as one in three migrant adults are suspected of bringing children to the border who aren’t their own. This type of fraud has been deterred in recent years using Trump-era DNA testing.
But, much like Title 42, familial DNA testing is going the way of the dodo.
A leaked internal memo from U.S. Customer and Border Protection has revealed the Biden Administration’s intention to end the Trump-era testing, which has historically been very effective in cracking down on child trafficking attempts.
The subject of the memo: End of Contract for DNA Testing for Suspected Family Unit Fraud.
“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) familial DNA contract with BODE Technologies will end on May 31, 2023 and all familial DNA testing will conclude on that date,” the memo reads. “Buccal swab samples may still be submitted to BODE Technologies through the end of the contract, but any samples submitted afterwards will not be analyzed.”
CBP has frequently encounters familial fraud. From CBP.gov:
An eight-year-old girl who illegally entered the United States with a 36-year-old man, who claimed to be her father, was later determined to be an unaccompanied child. After agents identified discrepancies in their stories, the man admitted to being a friend of the child’s mother, who is in Brazil. The two were separated and processed accordingly.
In addition, agents determined that a 14-year-old girl and a 40-year-old woman who claimed to be daughter and mother were a niece and aunt. The two Romanian nationals illegally entered the country together but were separated under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act after the fraud was discovered.
“Border Patrol agents continue to identify children who are fraudulently used to circumvent our immigration system,” said Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem in 2021.
In 2019, The Washington Examiner reported “approximately 30% of rapid DNA tests of immigrant adults who were suspected of arriving at the southern border with children who weren’t theirs revealed the adults were not related to the children.”
Which other effective border policies will Mr. Biden dismantle?
