Posted on 07/12/2018 9:21:55 AM PDT by MNDude
The Trump administration said it used DNA screenings to identify and rule out five adults who claimed to be parents of children being held at the southern border.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday that the agency found two adults through DNA swabbing who thought they were biological parents and were not.
Another three adults admitted they weren’t parents before the DNA swab was complete.
An HHS official said those individuals could have been human traffickers, and said the results show its screening process is working. The Trump administration is using DNA testing to reunite migrant families previously separated in order to prosecute adults illegally crossing the border.
“If we find out they are not the legal parent, then clearly we are not going to reunite them,” said Chris Meekins, a top HHS official overseeing the reunification process. “Our process may not be as quick as some would like, but there is no question it is protecting children.”
HHS is scrambling to comply with a court order to reunite children aged 4 and under with families by Tuesday, and children aged 5 to 17 by July 26.
Meekins said the Trump administration has reunited a total of 38 children with their parents, and identified a total of 75 out of 102 children in custody as eligible for reunification.
HHS last week said it is using DNA tests to speed up the process. The method will also ensure that children are not handed over to someone falsely claiming to be a parent, officials said.
Under normal circumstances, HHS would verify relationships using birth certificates or other documentation and use DNA testing as a backup.
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conspiracy to kidnap, child abuse, child endangerment, fraud, giving false statements to LE......
what crimes are involved here ???
or do these illegal aliens just walk ???
Five children who won’t wind up in a Chicago whore house run by democrats?
That’s why we have Jerry Springer.
I meant what is a cis-parent????? What does cis mean???
Birth
I’m surprised the number is so low.
Although I don’t know what percentage have been tested, something like 50% of separated children have been reunited. So, it would be what, 5 out of 1000, or 0.5%?
Personally, I would have expected a far higher number.
Demonrats would still place the kids with them.
Little Ricky was actually Little Fred?
Why didn’t you just say that???
This “cis, ze, xe, pe” BS has gone too far...
Same here. If I remember right it was done in England and it was designed to look at what genetic predispositions each parent gave to the child. In the course of the study they found (if I remember correctly) that 20% of the children were not biologically related to the “father” and he had no clue.
That was mockery, nothing more.
We have an adopted daughter. We traveled with her certified adoption papers and all the kids birth certificates and shot records.
Napoleon III rose to power in France and made himself emperor because he and others believed he was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Recent DNA studies have shown that Napoleon's brother was not his father after all.
I bet they’re cursing the person that invented DNA ,LOL
Little Juan was actually little Pedro.
bkmk
I see...I shoulda known...:^)
What is “IMPAIMENT”???
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