According to the court, in the United States were allowed to use DNA tests in order to expedite the process of family reunification, illegal immigrants, who illegally crossed the U.S. border and Mexico.
Authorities claim that a paternity test is a more rapid method to confirm the affinity than the collection of documents.
«Safety and security are of paramount importance, since children are often victims of trafficking or smuggling of those who claim to be her parents,» reported a Federal official to CNN.
Despite the argument of the government, RAICES is a non – profit organization in Texas that offers free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees called the decision unfortunate. Collect sensitive data will allow the government to monitor the children «for the rest of my life.»
«This is a demonstration of incompetence and a plea of the administration. Now it should be clear that they did not register parents and children properly,» said Director of communications at RAICES , Jennifer K. Falcon.
Dr. Alicia HART, the emergency physician who works with children in shelters for refugees, said that their hospital has a catastrophic shortage of information about the huge number of children. The doctor cited the example of a case where a man who introduced himself as doctor, brought the baby with a mental illness. All attempts to learn more about the baby failed. Accompanying the child the man didn’t give the doctors any information on the ward. According to HART, in these cases, a DNA test is the only way to ensure the return of children to their real home.
During yesterday’s hearing on the separation of families, the lawyer non-profit organization the American Union of civil liberties (American Civil Liberties Union – ACLU), Whether Gellert, insisted that DNA tests were removed from the state of the US bases after the reunification of children with their parents.
In late June, the newspaper McClatchy reported that the Ministry of health and social services, the US has lost track of 6 thousand children illegally crossed the border without their parents.
