Former Border Agency Director Rodney Scott told a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday that the surge in illegal immigration into the United States has made it nearly impossible for authorities to determine whether children are being trafficked and exploited. said it has become impossible.
Scott, who was appointed under the Trump administration, said more children were prone to exploitation under the Biden administration when Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene asked about the matter. Wednesday’s hearing, titled “Open Borders, Closed Cases,” focused on bringing a case against Homeland Security (DHS) Director Alejandro Mayorcas against charges of “neglect of duty.” (Related: Top Republican lawmaker says there’s evidence Biden administration released immigrants with military ties to US and China)
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Over the past two years, the US government has lost track of some 85,000 immigrant children released from federal custody, The New York Times reported. report in February. Scott said many children are more likely to be repurposed and crossed across the southern border, creating fake family units and entering the country.
“It means that the child will team up with the family many times. So he has to make that trip many times. Because you can get a full waiver for your child,” Scott said.
“Both of these cases were discovered by agents interviewing children and discovering small cracks in the story. That takes time, and today’s agents don’t have time for that.” Conversations are no longer taking place at all, they’re being pumped through the system like fast food items,” Scott said.
The Biden administration will also end immigration DNA testing, a key tool for determining whether children are being used by smugglers and traffickers, the former Border Patrol chief said.
“Worse than that, now that DNA part is also being shut down. It was one of the last tools that could quickly prove someone was irrelevant,” Scott said.
“That doesn’t mean there isn’t some connection there, but it does give the agents the tools. Most people broke as soon as they believed they were going to get a DNA test, we’re going to do that.” We didn’t even have to, because this administration knows that it’s putting our children at risk every day, and it’s tempting them to come to this country, and it defies common sense,” Scott said. Told.
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