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Not only is DNA testing fast, taking about a week, but Meekins said it also protects children from being returned to someone who may not be their parent, and could do them harm. Background checks on parents in immigration custody have turned up eight cases of people with serious criminal violations, and one credible allegation of child abuse, he said.

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“In the chaos of war or unpredictable situations, other people will take a child in and cheap mens air jordan shoes raise them as their own,” said Gwilym, with Kids in Need of Defense.

She recalled a married couple from Ethiopia, whom she’d represented years ago. They took in and raised an infant, but when they became refugees they could not prove legal parentage, so the family was separated. Among the complications: The building where they’d tried to register legal papers burned down.