Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Florida, criticized immigration experts who testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee on whether children are being trafficked into the United States by pretending to be their parents.
Paulina Luna released a video in which a man who crossed the border illegally with his two children claimed his wife had abandoned them during an interrogation by David Bier, deputy director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. . A federal pilot program found 16 out of 84 families to be “cheating,” while another program found 79 out of 522 immigrant families were reported to be cheating. There is. (Related: Exclusive: How Turkish smugglers use social media to help 'nationals of all countries' reach the US border)
Mr. Bier testified as part of a hearing titled “The Biden Administration's Regulatory and Policy Efforts to Weak U.S. Immigration Laws.”
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“You're talking about intentional trauma, and you're talking about the Trump administration causing intentional trauma by separating these children from their uncited parents. Don't you know? Why are you laughing? Mr. Bia, why are you laughing?'' asked Paulina Luna, highlighting her concern about the trafficking of migrant children.
“Because you said, 'You quote your parents as if they're not your real parents,'” Mr. Beer replied.
In a recent email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation, federal officials said the Border Patrol has contracts for rapid DNA testing of families and uses it when fraud is suspected. He said there was.
A federal judge recently ruled against the use of the practice of separating families crossing the border as part of a lawsuit involving the Trump administration's policies.
“We stopped hundreds of thousands of people from coming because when people hear about family separation, they say they shouldn't go. And they didn't go,” former President Donald Trump recently said of the policy. , and pointed out that this policy was also used by the Obama administration.
Paulina Luna said she had “no idea” whether the parents were related to the children, referring to underground child trafficking networks in the U.S. agricultural industry, while Bea said she doubted the family was fraudsters. He said he knew there wasn't.
“Are you sure you have psychic powers? Mr. Bea, have you ever won the lottery? I don't think you have,” she said.
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