Senator Blackburn Takes Action to Restore Crucial DNA Testing at the Border; Sen. Marsha Blackburn Proposes Familial DNA Testing at Mexican Border to Combat Child Trafficking

Senator Blackburn Takes Action to Restore Crucial DNA Testing at the Border:

President Joe Biden and his administration have brought chaos to the U.S.-Mexico border (and beyond) since taking office and, in addition to a lack of action to address the crises arising from the southern border, the immigration action Biden has taken only end up making things worse.

As an example, the Biden administration chose to discontinue the practice of conducting rapid familial DNA tests for alleged “family units” presenting themselves to border agents, screening done to confirm that a child is, in fact, related to the adult claiming to be their family unit.

Townhall spoke with Republican U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee on Wednesday, who just introduced the End Child Trafficking Now Act to restore the familial DNA testing requirement to confirm family unit relation at the border and apply stiffer penalties for those seeking to exploit Biden’s border crisis to engage in child trafficking.

“The DNA testing is a 45-minute test,” Blackburn explained, “and it may be what saves a child from a life of endangerment, a life of servitude or slavery, and we need to make certain that we do it.”

When the testing was conducted previously, the senator explained, it was “something that helped us protect children that were being trafficked.” As Blackburn noted, according to reports from border officials, “as many as 30 percent of the children coming across the border are being trafficked.”

The full number of child trafficking victims is difficult to discern due to the chaos at the border, part of the crisis that means the Biden administration has literally lost track of at least 85,000 children. “HHS cannot find them, the Office of Refugee Resettlement can’t find them,” Blackburn emphasized. “They may have been put in sex trafficking rings or put with gangs. We know the gangs like to take kids that are younger to do the carjackings and window smashing because juveniles have a different penalty system,” she explained. “We know that some of these children are being put into work crews.” —>READ MORE HERE

Exclusive – Sen. Marsha Blackburn Proposes Familial DNA Testing at Mexican Border to Combat Child Trafficking:

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in an interview with Breitbart News that she is introducing legislation to restore a requirement to DNA test illegal aliens coming across the southern border.

Blackburn, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the End Child Trafficking Now Act, which would require a DNA test to determine the relationship between illegal aliens coming across the border and any accompanying children.

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The Tennessee senator introduced her bill as the Biden administration is set to end the familial DNA testing requirement at the southern border. This requirement was first implemented under the Donald Trump administration, following a court order related to the separation of migrant children from their families.

Blackburn said that she introduced the bill due to the enormous amount of child trafficking at America’s southern border.

She explained, “What we have learned from border patrol is that as many as 30 percent of all the children that arrived at the southern border are being trafficked. There is no family relationship. With the individual bringing them to the border, the cartels are wise to do this and they have started to form to forge documents, that would be birth certificates, passports, and things of that nature because they’re using these fraudulent documents we need to return to a practice that we have had in times past, which is if you do not have documents or if you cannot prove this is your child that you submit to a DNA test.”

Blackburn originally introduced this bill in 2019, and in 2019, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executive associate director, said, “It is clear on-site DNA testing has a strong deterrent effect, as HSI agents witnessed multiple instances of individuals confessing to faux families prior to being tested as well.” —>READ MORE HERE

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