{"id":190935,"date":"2019-07-02T15:55:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190935"},"modified":"2019-07-06T05:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:17:08","slug":"rapid-dna-testing-reveals-a-third-of-migrants-faked-family-relationship-with-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190935","title":{"rendered":"Rapid DNA testing reveals a THIRD of migrants faked family relationship with children"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>ICE ran the pilot for a few days this month in El Paso and McAllen, Texas<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>About 30% of migrants tested with rapid DNA were lying about familial relations<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Migrants with children can claim asylum and avoid detention in most cases\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Keith Griffith \u2013 Daily Mail.com May 19, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/immigration\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Immigration<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and Customs Enforcement pilot of new rapid DNA testing at the border has found that nearly a third of those tested were not biologically related to the children in their custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">ICE conducted the pilot for a few days earlier this month in El Paso and McAllen, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\"><strong>Texas<\/strong><\/a>, finding about 30 per cent of those tested were not related to the children they claimed were their own, an official told the <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/dna-tests-reveal-30-of-suspected-fraudulent-migrant-families-were-unrelated\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official said that these were not cases of step-fathers or adoptive parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Those were not the case. In these cases, they are misrepresented as family members,&#8217; the official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is unclear whether every family unit was tested during the pilot, or only those who raised some sort of red flag. An ICE spokesman did not immediately respond to request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190938\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Migrants-are-seen-outside-the-US-Border-Patrol-McAllen-Station-McAllen-Texas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190938\" class=\"wp-image-190938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Migrants-are-seen-outside-the-US-Border-Patrol-McAllen-Station-McAllen-Texas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Migrants-are-seen-outside-the-US-Border-Patrol-McAllen-Station-McAllen-Texas.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Migrants-are-seen-outside-the-US-Border-Patrol-McAllen-Station-McAllen-Texas-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants are seen outside the US Border Patrol McAllen Station, McAllen, Texas. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official said that some migrants did refuse the test and admit that they were not related to the children they were with, when they learned their claim would be subjected to DNA proof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">ICE said the Department of Homeland Security would look at the results of the pilot to determine whether to roll out rapid DNA tests more broadly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">After President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration backpedaled on &#8216;family separation&#8217; in the face of enormous backlash last summer, the number of family units arriving at the southern border has skyrocketed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Current U.S. law and policy means that Central Americans who cross the border illegally with children can claim asylum and avoid any lengthy detention in most cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">US Border Patrol says it has apprehended\u00a0535,000 for crossing the border illegally so far this year, with &#8216;no sign of it getting better.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Due to massive strain on the processing system, 40,000 of those have been released into communities, the agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Saturday, the Trump administration told lawmakers that it probably will cost more to care for migrants crossing into the United States from Mexico than the $2.9 billion in emergency money requested just two weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a White House letter, acting budget chief Russell Vought said &#8216;the situation has continued to deteriorate and is exceeding previous high end estimates.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a separate letter that needs for the unaccompanied children account &#8216;could grow further and be closer to the worst-case scenario HHS had proposed be the basis for the supplemental request, which was $1.4 billion higher.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/1915820.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7045351\/Rapid-DNA-testing-reveals-migrants-faked-family-relationship-kids.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrants with children can claim asylum and avoid detention in most cases <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190940,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190935\/revisions\/190940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}