GOP Rep. Debates Immigration Witness Over Whether Fraudulent Migrant Families Cross Border

Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna criticized an immigration expert who testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday about whether children are being trafficked into the United States by people falsely claiming to be their parents.

Paulina Luna played a video showing a man who had crossed the border illegally with two children, saying his wife abandoned them while questioning David Bier, associate director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute. A previously federal pilot program Found that 16 of the 84 families were “fraudulent,” while a separate program reported that 79 of the 522 migrant families were fraudulent.

Bier testified as part of a hearing titled “The Biden Administration's Regulatory and Policymaking Efforts to Undermine US Immigration Law.”

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“You talk about intentional trauma and that the Trump administration caused intentional trauma by separating these children from their parents without quotes. The thing is, you don't know these people? Why are you laughing? Mr. Bier, why are you laughing? asked Paulina Luna as she underlined her concern about the trafficking of migrant children.

“Because you said 'quote the parents without quoting them as if they weren't really their parents,'” Bier replied.

The Border Patrol has a contract for rapid DNA testing of families, which it uses when fraud is suspected, federal officials said in recent emails. obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

A federal judge recently governed against the use of the practice of separating families crossing the border as part of a lawsuit involving the Trump administration's policy.

“It stopped people from coming by the hundreds of thousands because when they hear the family separation, they say, well, we better not go. And they didn't go there,” former President Donald Trump recently said of the policy, noting that it was also used by the Obama administration.

Paulina Luna said she has “no idea” whether the parents were related to the children, pointing to an underground child-trafficking network in the US agricultural industry, while Bier said she does know the families they are not fraudulent.

“Really, are you psychic? He won the lottery Mr. Bier, I don't think he did,” he said.

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