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Homeland Security whistleblowers claim American deaths were preventable · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Americans are dead, and these deaths were preventable.
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  So this internal government memo confirms that you were
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  retaliated against because you spoke out against officials at
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  Homeland Security who you believed were violating the law.
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  Yes, 100%. The agency's goal is to bankrupt
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  you, make you quit, die, kill yourselves, or basically,
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  preferably all of the above. This law is on the books.
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  Yes. Is Homeland Security enforcing
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  the DNA collection law? Not fully.
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  As a result, are Americans less safe?
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  Yes. No question in your mind.
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  None. Our team sat down with three
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  government whistleblowers with seven decades of law enforcement
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  experience. They work at Customs and Border
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  Protection, or CBPA, Division of Homeland Security.
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  This internal government memo confirms that you were
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  retaliated against because you spoke out against officials at
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  Homeland Security who you believed were violating the law.
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  Yes, yes. 100%. The agency's intentional, decade
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  long failure to implement a law designed to protect public
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  safety. That's its conclusion.
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  Customs and Border Protection is in violation of the federal law,
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  and it's done knowingly. Yes.
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  This internal Homeland Security directive, marked law
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  enforcement sensitive, lays out the law.
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  The Border Agency is required to collect DNA samples from non
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  United States persons in detention for immigration
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  violations. Known as the DNA Fingerprint
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  Act, it passed in 2005 with bipartisan support.
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  So there's no ambiguity, the language is clear.
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  It lays it out as a road map. Have you ever seen a directive
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  like this be ignored? Never, No.
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  OK, a lot of people are going to be confused.
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  Homeland Securities job is to uphold the law and to keep
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  Americans safe. But what you're alleging is that
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  Homeland Security is not complying with the law.
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  That's correct. Since 2021 under the Biden
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  Harris administration, Homeland Security's own data reports more
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  than 10 million border encounters.
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  The internal mood is it's a dumpster fire.
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  It is a questioning of our mission versus what is actually
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  being executed in the field. Jones showed us what's supposed
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  to happen in the field when DNA is collected from individuals
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  detained and processed on immigration violations.
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  So, Catherine, this is the kit that's provided by the FBI to
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  the Customs and Border Protection officers and agents.
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  Place it inside your cheek. Rub inside your cheek three
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  times. Three times.
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  Yeah, you're collecting saliva and skin cells or epithelial
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  cells. OK.
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  I would then take it back from you, close it, place it inside
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  the white envelope which then gets sent to the FBI laboratory
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  for processing. So 30 seconds to collect about
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  $4 the pack, correct? How long to process by the FBI?
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  Approximately 72 hours. So it helps to identify
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  suspects. Absolutely.
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  It gives an investigative lead to a law enforcement agency.
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  Has the system solved cold cases?
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  Yes, it's presumptively solved over 1000 cases just from DNA
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  collection. Not only does it cut down on
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  crime, it also cuts down on the time that it takes law
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  enforcement to find this individual.
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  You've had Republican administrations, you've had
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  Democratic administrations. Have either of them implemented
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  the law? No, the willful non compliance I
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  believe is inexplicable. For many years, the Department
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  of Homeland Security and Customs and.
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  Border Protection have failed to follow.
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  The law. Recent data released by
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  Republican Senator Chuck Grassley suggests nearly 70% of
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  border encounters did not include DNA collection as
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  required by law, and as many as 950,000 violent criminals were
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  unidentified 9. 150,000 violent criminals went unidentified.
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  That's nearly 1,000,000 people. That estimate was from 2010
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  through 2019. That was 5 million illegal
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  entries at the time. What you're saying to me is that
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  950,000 violent criminals is a is an old number.
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  It's on the low end. Yes, ma'am.
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  The continued prolonged willful failure to comply with the DNA
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  Fingerprint Act has resulted in the harm that Americans are dead
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  and these deaths were preventable.
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  That's a very significant statement.
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  I believe that to be statistically verifiable.
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  The August 2023 sexual assault and murder of a 37 year old
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  mother of five in Bel Air, MD haunts the whistleblowers.
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  Are you alleging that Homeland Security's failure to comply
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  with the DNA collection law may have been a contributing factor
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  in Rachel Moran's death? It may have been a contributing
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  factor, yes. No question in your mind.
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  None. That's a very serious charge to
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  make. It is.
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  Now charged with Rachel Moran's murder is 23 year old Victor
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  Antonio Martinez Hernandez from El Salvador, an alleged gang
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  member. Authorities claim he murdered
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  another woman before fleeing to the US in February 2020.
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  Three, based on our reporting, the suspect didn't just have one
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  encounter with border agents. He had multiple encounters.
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  So there were multiple opportunities to take his DNA.
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  We understand we had three bites at the apple with this subject
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  and never took it. It's going to be hard for the
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  family to hear that there was an opportunity to identify the
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  suspect and stop him if federal law had been followed.
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  Absolutely. Had the subject had DNA taken
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  the first time they were encountered, there would have
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  been an instant possibility that any future criminal activity
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  would have been stopped immediately and there was
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  definite potential for the individual to be apprehended.
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  Six months before Rachel Mourin's murder, the suspect was
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  linked to a brutal home invasion in Los Angeles.
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  I think if due diligence was exercised, comply with the law,
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  DNA was collected, we would have known who we were looking for on
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  behalf of the little girl and the the young lady out in Los
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  Angeles and hopefully have interdicted him long before he
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  got to Maryland. Did Homeland Security fail
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  Rachel Morin? In the context of not collecting
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  the DNA that is mandated by law, they they did not do it and
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  there's no other answer. Even independent government
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  investigators admitted in this May 2023 letter that border
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  agencies do not systematically record data on the reasons for
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  the non collections. What's?
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  The consequence for the American public?
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  We know for a fact that not every individual who crosses the
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  border illegally into the United States goes on to commit violent
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  acts, but given the number, even a very small percentage results
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  in a definite increase in crime within the United States.
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  Does Homeland Security owe the victims an apology?
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  Does Customs and Border Protection owe the victims an
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  apology? At a minimum, many people in
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  this country are owed an explanation.
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  Ultimately, the Secretary of Department of Homeland Security
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  is responsible. We know that he's been notified
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  of the non compliance. They've done so with impunity.
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  Has anyone at Homeland Security been disciplined?
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  Not that we're aware of, no. Demoted.
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  No, into the contrary promoted. Promoted anyone fired for
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  failing to comply with the DNA law.
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  No, no. The only ones disciplined are
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  sitting right here. This exclusive internal memo
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  concluded the Border Agency retaliated against them,
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  including denial of promotion, hostile work environment,
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  reputational harm, among other issues.
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  How hard did you have to work within the government
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  bureaucracy to get this memo? The Office of Special Counsel
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  refused to give it to us. We received it through discovery
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  with our legal counsel. So you had you had to spend your
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  own money to get confirmation that you were being punished by
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  the government. That's correct.
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  For me personally, it's a mystery as to why the Office of
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  Special Counsel did not see fit to share that document with us.
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  I've had my law enforcement credentials firearm taken away
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  from me. I've had my law enforcement
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  retirement taken away from me. And we will tell you this In a
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  law enforcement environment, publicly removing someone's
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  firearm is the ultimate insult and degradation.
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  I was basically iced, left to sit at my desk every day, do
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  nothing but the most menial tasks, my future career options.
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  Because I was working in such a limited sphere, all that future
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  potential vanished in a day. I was demoted 3 levels like Mr.
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  Taylor, my firearm was taken, my credentials were taken, and it
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  was the final blow to a professional career.
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  And what we did was we came forward.
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  Not in 75 years or so of combined service have one of us
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  even had a written or verbal disciplinary action.
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  One of the supervisors said very matter of fact, the agency's
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  goal is to bankrupt you, make you quit, die, kill yourselves
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  or basically preferably all of the above.
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  What you describe sounds like a criminal conspiracy.
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  We think a lot of this is criminal, not so much even when
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  it comes to us, but the absolute intentional dereliction of
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  implementing the DNA law. We don't need to bring in more
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  crime. We have enough of our own.
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  The tool we have the DNA Fingerprint Act, we are
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  willfully not complying and we ask ourselves how is this
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  happening? I think we know how it's
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  happening.