Border Patrol identifies over 3,000 fraudulent family cases
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Joanna Guzman
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot,
4/20/2019 12:36:29 PM
McAllen, Texas - U.S. Border Patrol has identified over 3,000 fraudulent family unit cases in the last six months. That is according to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan. He says the system is full and urges congress to act on current immigration policies. "It´s very clear that the cartel and smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws. They know that family units and unaccompanied children will be released with no consequences for their illegal entries." McAleenan adds the Rio Grande Valley Sector has been the main arrival point for immigrants in the last five years.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Calico Al 4/20/2019 12:59:38 PM (No. 40018)
Wouldn´t DNA testing help?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2019 1:37:48 PM (No. 40017)
#1, a problem is that too many believe the largely BS "Crime Lab" TV shows. DNA testing, depending on the exact type, takes from 3 to 5 days to actually accomplish. And they are pretty expensive. I have built some of the equipment to do these testing (gel electrophoresis part of Western blot) for a research scientist friend some years ago, became familiar with the technology of DNA testing.
TV shows seem to indicate that the test costs essentially nothing and takes 15 minutes. Not so. So, people expect more than the real science can deliver.
It should be the serious crime, of child kidnapping, with decades behind bars, to be found with children not related to you when crossing the border. That would help a lot.
A simple blood test would at least rule out the possibility of parentage in a portion of the cases, but is only a negative. Certain blood group differences between adult and chile can preclude parentage, but cannot prove it, only say if it is possible/impossible. So can prove a negative in some cases, and IS relatively cheap and relatively quick.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2019 2:47:28 PM (No. 40019)
Excellent point, #3. We CAN take DNA samples and put them in a database, and on a "never, ever" list, and DNA test for a green card against that list, when there is time to accomplish it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/20/2019 4:36:23 PM (No. 40020)
This site has interesting articles. Center for Immigration Studies. Here’s one:
Fake Family Units at the Border
Stupid rules and their victims
https://cis.org/Arthur/Fake-Family-Units-Border
An excerpt:
In a recent post, I noted the fact that, as a matter of policy, the Border Patrol does not photograph or take the fingerprints of migrants under the age of 14. This is a serious mistake, and one that risks the safety and dignity of those children.
Since the start of the fiscal year, in the Border Patrol´s Yuma Sector alone, agents have identified 260 false family units; that is, aliens who did not honestly identify their familial relationships. The existence of such false family units is not exactly news, however. For example, Fox News reported in July 2018 about the phenomenon in McAllen, Texas.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Salt5792 4/20/2019 7:30:12 PM (No. 40022)
Phony families.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/20/2019 8:28:49 PM (No. 40016)
If they were able to identify 3,000 fraudulent family cases, you can bet your hat that in reality there have been ten or twenty times that many who made it into the USA. That’s not to disparage the Border Patrol in any way, because they can only go with the evidence they have in accordance within DC written parameters that always give the benefit of any doubt to the illegal aliens.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/21/2019 1:53:19 AM (No. 40023)
They really should be taking DNA samples and fingerprints from every single one of them.
Tow reasons, first to exclude pre-emptorally the next time they are caught, and second, in case there is a missing persons case of a kidnapped child.
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