Chuck Grassley: “my message today is to the administration and particularly to President Trump, who is very forcefully enforcing the…”

“my message today is to the administration and particularly to President Trump, who is very forcefully enforcing the immigration laws that were not enforced in the last administration, a message about bringing justice to some people who have been harmed by the previous administration. On January 20, President Trump's first day in office, he signed the Executive order that is called Securing Our Borders Executive Order. His Executive order properly instructs the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to ``fulfill the requirements of the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005.'' That is music to my ears because I have been involved in that issue in regard to the kids who have been lost in this system of immigration that the previous administration has not been able to follow. As I said, that is music to my ears. For years, my oversight has sounded the alarm on the Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security's failure to fully implement the 2005 DNA Fingerprint Act. I have a lot of whistleblowers come to me on different subjects. Three whistleblowers--Mark Jones, Mike Taylor, and Fred Wynn--disclosed to their superiors that the Department of Homeland Security wasn't following the 2005 law. In other words, they were not taking DNA from the people whom they were supposed to be keeping track of.…”