From the southern border, in California, a request is made to the Joe Biden administration: to re-run DNA testing for asylum seekers to protect underage migrants.

On Wednesday, September 6, 2023, Noticias Telemundo reported that the FBI indicates that San Diego (California) ranks 13th – in the United States – in child sex trafficking.

In a letter to the White House, according to the news network, it was stated that half of the 8,000 human trafficking cases recorded year over year in San Diego involve minors.

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Background information on DNA testing of migrants

In La Voz de América, they reported in May 2019 that US immigration authorities would conduct voluntary DNA testing “when their agents suspect adult migrants fraudulently claiming to be parents of minors accompanying them after crossing the US border into Mexico. ” .

The measure, the paper said, was taken “because Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are increasingly concerned about the cases of child trafficking (…)”.

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On June 20, 2023, they published in La Jornada that “people over the age of 14 entering El Paso, Texas are required to provide a DNA sample to U.S. authorities, from which those who do not are exempt.” 14″.

That Mexican media outlet recalled that the CBP (US Customs and Border Protection) “has been collecting DNA at the border for several years and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service has been doing the same,” although that now applied to all migrants.

La Jornada specified on that occasion that CBP has two programs to analyze the DNA of people in the United States immigration system:

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