It’s Time to Fully Deploy Rapid DNA Testing at the Border

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For years, the United States has been the victim of immigration fraud by aliens falsely claiming to be someone they are not, as well as by aliens falsely claiming to be related to someone they are not.

But the problem has ballooned in the past two years, as wave after wave of migrants has taken advantage of a loophole limiting the detention time of those aliens who have minors in their custody.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has discovered hundreds of cases of adult illegal aliens travelling in the company of unrelated children and claiming them as their own. More than 300 are already being prosecuted. But the total number is doubtless in the tens of thousands, because the fraud goes undetected.

In late April 2019, the Border Patrol began a small pilot program at one Border Patrol station using so-called rapid-DNA tests on arriving illegal aliens claiming familial relations with minors in their custody. The program has proven successful, showing that in about 15% of the cases, illegal aliens were fraudulently claiming the children as their own. A total of 109 cases of fraudulent parental claims were discovered through the rapid-DNA pilot program, according to statistics made public by DHS.

But the true percentage is likely higher than 15%, because illegal aliens use different tactics to gain release in different sectors. Rapid-DNA testing was also deployed in the El Paso Border Patrol Sector, albeit for only one day. According to Border Patrol sources, the tests revealed that approximately 25% of the asserted family relationships were false. Inexplicably, the El Paso rapid-DNA program was terminated a day later.

Border Patrol DNA Test Catches Illegal Using 
‘Borrowed’ Child in Attempt To Get Released

In some cases, the DNA test reveals the alien to be lying. In other cases, simply being confronted with the test causes the alien to admit that the child is not his own – such as when a 51-year old man bought a 6-month old infant in Guatemala for $80, but admitted doing so when faced with the DNA test.

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Border Patrol DNA Test Catches Illegal Using ‘Borrowed’ Child in Attempt To Get Released

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