DHS PANEL CALLS FOR BORDER OFFICIALS TO BE ABLE TO ‘TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS AND BIOMETRICS OF CHILDREN’ TO STOP CHILD ‘RECYCLING’
BY CHANTAL DA SILVA ON 4/17/19 AT 11:56 AM EDT
A new report from the Homeland Security Advisory Council called for U.S. border officials to be able to "take photographs and biometrics" of migrant children as an "emergency regulatory action" to address the surge in arrivals of asylum seekers at the southern border.
The "emergency interim report," which was released by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, outlined suggested measures to address the "large-scale influx" of families arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months.
"The large-scale influx of [family units] is new, having increased dramatically in the last year by 600 percent," the report states. Over 53,000 family units were "apprehended" by Border Patrol officers last month alone, it said. The reported added that "at the current trajectory," the number of family unit apprehensions is likely to exceed 500,000 in fiscal year 2019.
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