The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, is refusing to collect DNA from millions of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, whistleblowers say. claims.
The letter to Biden and Harris, signed by more than 20 House and Senate Republicans, details whistleblower allegations against DHS for refusing to comply with DNA fingerprinting laws passed by Congress in 2005, among other things. has been done.
The law requires federal agencies to collect DNA samples from people arrested, charged, or convicted of crimes, as well as from foreign nationals in federal custody.
Former President Barack Obama's DHS was not in compliance with the law, but former President Donald Trump completed a rule in 2020 that made it clear that it complied with the law. Since then, whistleblowers allege that Biden-Harris' DHS has continued to violate the law.
“In fiscal year 2021, the Biden-Harris administration collected DNA from only 16% of the 1.9 million people encountered by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Office of Field Operations (OFO),” the Republicans wrote. There is.
Even further away, In 2022, DNA was collected from only 37% of the 2.7 million people encountered. By CBP and OFO. The whistleblowers also revealed that: In the first three quarters of fiscal year 2023, CBP and OFO collected DNA from just 36% of the 2.3 million people they encountered. More recently, according to a protected whistleblower disclosure, CBP agents visited U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) processing facilities in Tucson, Casa Grande, Yuma, and San Diego, but no DNA was collected at the facilities they visited. This blatant disregard for the law has been compounded by your administration's failed border policies, which have resulted in an unprecedented explosion of illegal immigrant encounters at the border across the country. This staggering amount exceeds 10 million people in just three and a half years, and this does not even include the estimated 2 million people who have crossed to avoid arrest. [Emphasis added]
Republicans point out that Biden and Harris' failure to collect DNA from migrants arriving at the border had deadly consequences.
“Víctor Antonio Martínez Hernandez, the Salvadoran gang member who allegedly raped and murdered Rachel Morin, was also involved in the murders of young women in El Salvador and crossed the border on four separate occasions. ” the Republican wrote.
During three of those border crossings (two in January 2023 and one in February 2023), Border Patrol agents arrested him and deported him. According to disclosures from panelists and other whistleblowers: DHS did not collect DNA from Martinez-Hernandez, even though he had “bitten the apple three times.” On his fourth illegal entry into the country, Martinez Hernandez was able to completely evade Border Patrol agents. [Emphasis added]
Six months before Rachel Morin's tragic murder, Martinez Hernandez allegedly broke into a home in Los Angeles and assaulted a 9-year-old girl and her mother. DNA was collected at the crime scene and submitted to the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). If Martinez-Hernandez's DNA had been collected during his three encounters with DHS, “there would have been an immediate possibility that any future criminal activity would be stopped immediately.” And there was a clear possibility that the person would be arrested. ” [Emphasis added]
The whistleblowers are now facing retaliation from the Biden-Harris administration, Republicans wrote.
“The administration’s retaliation against Mr. Jones, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Wynn continues today, even though the OSC corroborated their claims and found that prohibited personnel practices did occur,” Republicans wrote. It points out that one of the whistleblowers lost the case. His retirement security after 30 years of federal service.
The whistleblower alleges that one such Homeland Security official in the Biden-Harris administration said, “I want to go bankrupt.” [them]make [them] stop, die, kill [themselves]or preferably all of the above. ”
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