Quick DNA tests at the border reveal guess what
Apparently about a third of the children are not biologically related to the adults who brought them, and these were not incidences of adoption or step-parenting.
I previously wrote about a related issue here.
Surprise, surprise! Immigration fraud. Who’d ever have expected that?
Poor little kids.
One wonders if they will come up with some DNA from previously deported criminals whose DNA is already on file.
Isn’t this human trafficking, which in my view merits the death penalty, but even under our present wimp-ass laws, should result in a long prison term.
Emigration reform to reduce the collateral damage at both ends of the bridge and throughout.
So my question is what did the border agents do with those who refused the test or failed the test. Were they refused entry? My guess is “no” but hope there is some recourse here to refuse entry. Dangerous situation here for trafficking and abuse.
Scott,
I don’t know the details, but it might be true that the “quick” DNA test is in no way comparable to the CODIS criminal database data.
I caught the story this morning. It’s important to note that this was a voluntary DNA test. It’s safe to assume that nearly all of the smart and dishonest illegals refused the test.
It would seem logical and absolutely necessary to me, to take a strong exception to “refugees” who are proven to be dishonest in the interview process. The typical problem is that these people are complete unknowns and thus almost none of their statements can be disproved.
I have a friend who works with a company doing “quick” DNA analysis. He often works with police departments. There would be no reason, I think, why DNA results from the border tests wouldn’t be compatible with a criminal database.
TommyJay makes an excellent point. Because this is voluntary, the probability is that the fraud exceeds one-third of the cases.
I haven’t heard anything about routine fingerprinting being done. Or not done. I don’t know which, and I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be done on every person passing through any of the border systems.
It seems to me that I remember a portable system being used by the military during the Iraq war, due to the fact that the Iraqi resistance leaders would move around and use different names in order to confuse the US military. I don’t know if there are complications – physical or legal – but it seems to me that such a system would be useful.
The Washington Examiner also has a piece on this and it says that was 30% of “suspected” fraudulent family units that proved to be unrelated:
That sounds to me as if they tested only men showing up alone and with kids.
SueK–If you watch the TV show Live PD, you will see that some police departments have these apparently rare fingerprint readers (apparently accessing some sort of fingerprint database), but that they are apparently very expensive, so that officers at the scene of a crime have to make a special call to get the one unit they have brought there, to be used to ID someone who refuses to give his name, or who gives a phony one.
Snow on Pine,
Given what you say is true (I did a quick search and found that the portable ones have other problems), have you heard anything about routine fingerprinting done on both adults and children passing through the processing system? Especially with the use of unrelated children – which may be use more than once – it seems like it should be routinely done…
SueK–Haven’t seen anything on this subject.
According to what I have read, the Border Patrol is just overwhelmed.
So, how many of those illegals they do apprehend they have the time or the resources to fingerprint, to photograph, or to take a DNA sample from is unknown.
It would really be quite useful for their future operations–assuming that they will have the necessary funds and resources in the future–if they were building a database that they could use to identify those illegals who don’t show up for their “hearings,” so that they could haul them in, and if they failed in their claims, deport them.
But, I’m betting–given these reports–that they don’t get the necessary identifying information on a lot of those they apprehend.
Then, of course, there are the Border Patrol’s estimates that, for every one illegal alien they apprehend, four more escape capture, and just head for the interior to blend into the population.
So, if a hundred thousand illegal aliens pour across our borders each month and are apprehended–by the end of this calendar year adding up to an estimated one million illegals–does this mean that it’s actually four million aliens who will enter our country illegally?
I sure hope that that isn’t the case.
So the whole narrative of “what about the children” and “breaking up the family” is sorta bullish_t.
This is a well coordinated invasion and should be delt with by a harsh military response. It is a matter of sovereignty.
I have a friend in SoCal who watches Univision to learn Spanish. He says the channel is chock full of tips on how immigrants may game the system.
Ann’s point is important: it was 30% of *those tested.* The Washington Examiner article doesn’t say what percentage of immigrants were tested. It also says some people, continued with the test, refused to take it and admitted they were not related to the child/ren, but it doesn’t say what percentage of suspected fraudulent parents refused the test.
It’s important that we don’t shoot rhetorical blanks – I hope we learn all the facts about this story so we know the extent of the problem. That it is a problem is indeed established by the story.
A huge percentage AND a huge number in absolute numbers — those claiming to “care” don’t care enough to know the facts.
A large minority, or possibly small majority, of the kids are NOT there with their actual parents.
Those who claim to be parents but are unwilling to be tested should be deported immediately; those who are tested but fail should be held as frauds (possibly kidnappers), with the parents likely also guilty of conspiracy to commit fraud — so they get put on an “undesirable” list.
America doesn’t need more folk willing to break the law.
It’s a crisis, and the lying Dems have long known it was a crisis. The illegals really should be bussed to Sanctuary Cities, since the border patrol has no free beds for them.
I’ve lived in San Diego since 1976, first lived (literally) on the beach in Imperial Beach, could see the Tijuana bullring from my deck overlooking the beach.
Watched almost daily as large groups of people trudged north on the beach carrying their worldly goods.
Thinking to myself “this is an invasion” and assuming the BP would pick them up somewhere along their trek.
Maybe not.
Have seen the schools/hospitals/prisons overwhelmed in the last 40+ years.
It’s not getting better anytime soon.
By not fighting and killing them in Iraq and the ME, creating a nation for them, America has traded killing tens of thousands of terrorists in return for fighting millions… not exactly strategic genius there.
There’s a reason why the traitorous Demoncrat and Leftist alliance wanted to sabotage Iraq and also why they were at the forefront of Merkel inviting in a bunch of refugees. It’s all part of the Plan.