May 23, 2023
The Biden administration is ending a Trump-era plan designed to crack down on fake claims of family relationships among illegal immigrants crossing America's southern border. The policy will end May 31, according to a leaked memo published by Just the News. "The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) familial DNA contract with BODE Technologies will end on May 31, 2023 and all familial DNA testing will conclude on that date," the memo said. In 2019, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told the Senate Judiciary Committee that, based on initial results of one pilot program, 15 percent of alleged migrant families are committing fraud by claiming unrelated children as their own, according to The Hill. At that time, he said illegal immigrants and smugglers believe "a child is a passport to migration in the United States." As such, what he called "child recycling rings" exist, including one in which the same eight children were used to help
