The State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. family-reunification program for African refugees has been suspended after DNA testing of applicants revealed widespread fraud.C'mon, now... you expect a few folks to try cheating the system.
Officials say the departments of State and Homeland Security decided to suspend the admissions program after DNA testing of applicants - begun in February in Kenya -- showed that only a fraction of them were actually blood relatives of refugees given residence in the United States.
How bad can this really be?
Wood said the initial tests, involving about 500 mainly Somali and Ethiopian applicants examined in Nairobi, showed that only a fraction of them - about 20 percent - were blood relatives of those in the United States.Oops.
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