On Newsmax TV's Finnerty on Thursday, incoming border czar Tom Homan said the incoming Trump administration has not yet decided whether to use family detention. One is to do that.” DNA testing allows for further investigation to confirm that the family is family and that the child is not a victim of human trafficking. ”
Host Rob Finnerty said: “If you have a family member in custody, you can do things like DNA testing. Is that really such a bad thing?”
Homan said, “No, it's not. I haven't decided whether to do it yet. But I said it's something that might be on the table, and why? Because exactly What you just said, under the Trump administration, they were doing DNA testing, and I think it was in El Paso, almost a third of the family. It turns out these children weren't even family members. And look, 340,000 children were smuggled into this country and released to unvetted sponsors. We've lost more than a dozen children and now we can't find them. In fact, we know that some of these families aren't family at all. So family residential centers are built for families. They are not prisons. …It's made for families. One of the reasons we're looking at that is by doing DNA testing to make sure that the family is family and that the child is not a victim of human trafficking. We will conduct a detailed investigation to confirm this.”
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