A group of Republican senators reintroduced legislation that would require DNA testing to verify family relationships between undocumented immigrants and accompanying minors at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans have reintroduced legislation that seeks to combat child trafficking and human exploitation at the U.S.-Mexico border.The proposed End Child Trafficking Now Act would mandate DNA testing to verify familial relationships between undocumented immigrants and accompanying minors.
The legislation would require the Department of Homeland Security to deport illegal immigrant adults who refuse a DNA test and would mandate a maximum 10-year prison sentence for those who falsify family relationships or guardianship over minors.It also criminalizes the practice of 'child recycling,' where the same child is used repeatedly by undocumented adults, who are neither their relatives nor legal guardians, to gain entry into the U.S.Additionally, the bill would require the Department of Health and Human Services to treat any child without proven family ties or legal guardianship as an unaccompanied minor under existing law. According to the lawmakers, up to 30 percent of minors DNA tested were found to be unrelated to the adults they were traveling with.
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