DNA testing for border immigrants urges stop trafficking in children

Exclusive: Senator Marsha Blackburn of R-Tenn is renewing his bid to conduct DNA testing on immigrants to prevent trafficking at the southern border in a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security on Friday morning.

Blackburn Border security and immigration law enforcement.

“As an important part of this commitment, this landmark legislation provides critical resources to prevent child trafficking and recycling, especially allocating funds under the Immigration and Nationality Act “to collect fingerprints and collect DNA.” letter.

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“Implementing this critical provision will be an important step in our struggle to protect these innocent children, many of whom were trafficked to the United States during the Biden border crisis,” she added.

There have been growing concerns Unaccompanied immigrant children Those who enter the United States but do not have a proper review of the sponsor.

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Millions of people illegally entered the country during the Biden administration and have suffered a nose since then. Still, whether it’s after the crisis, long discussions about legislators, whether filling gaps on the wall or opposing drug cartels, are the most important for legislators.

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The letter continues: “Familial DNA testing and fingerprinting constitute effective tools that can be used to verify, namely customs and border protection (CBP), which can be used to combat trafficking in children, identify dangerous criminals, verify family relations and protect these innocent children from exploitation.”

The Trump administration announced late last month that it had found 13,000 children who had “lost or uncensored sponsors” and had almost completed a 65,000 backlog from the Biden-era border crisis.

The Department of Homeland Security said that 4,000 “investigation clues” were led to at the time in connection with possible criminal activities.

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A family of five claims to be from Guatemala, and one said he was Peru, wearing a pink shirt, crossed the desert after crossing the border wall of the U.S.-Mexico border Tucson area on Tuesday, August 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt York)

“The evil of trafficking in humans cannot be exaggerated. This is modern slavery. By opening our borders and even encouraging people to come here illegally, Biden has made the largest trafficking operation in modern history the modern history,” said Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in a July 25 statement. “We have a once-generation opportunity to eliminate trafficking operations against the United States. Under President Donald Trump, under the leadership of various administrations, we can win this battle. We will.”

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Fox News Digital and Department of Homeland Security Comment on this letter.

“I urge you to use these funds to: (1) continue to use DNA verification technology (including rapid DNA tests 3) to confirm family relations at the border; (2) (2) ensure that all immigrants seeking to enter the United States, including immigrant children under the age of 14, are placed on their fingerprints.”