> http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n20434745-usa-africa-refugees/
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> Posted 2008/08/20 at 6:29 pm EDT
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> WA****NGTON, Aug. 20, 2008 (Reuters) -- The [9]United States has halted
> a program that united African refugees with relatives in America after
> DNA testing revealed many people were lying about family links, the
> [10]State Department said on Wednesday.
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> Thousands of Africans have been allowed to settle in the United States
> since 1990 under the family reunification program, which accepts
> relatives such as parents or children of people who have already been
> admitted into the United States as refugees, or who were granted
> asylum.
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> But recent DNA tests on applicants in seven African countries showed
> only about 20 percent actually had a family relation****p, State
> Department spokesman [16]Robert Wood said.
Not bad, considering they are all brothers & sisters ?
> The applicants were not tested for a DNA match with their claimed
> relatives in the United States, but with each other to see whether
> they were related as claimed, another department spokesman said. For
> example, a mother with several children applying to join a husband in
> America would be tested to see whether she was in fact related to the
> children.
>
> "The program has been suspended," Wood said, adding that the
> government is "looking into it further to see what we can do."
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