Trump promotes CBP whistleblowers who called out failure to collect criminal DNA at border

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The Trump administration is elevating three Customs and Border Protection whistleblowers who sounded the alarm more than seven years ago about their agency not collecting fingerprints from detainees, potentially letting thousands of criminals loose into the US.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that CBP agents Fred Wynn, Mike Taylor and Mark Jones will now hold supervisory roles and receive seven years of backpay and retirement benefits after paying an “unjust price” for flagging that collection practices had run afoul of federal law since 2009.

“These men had the courage and patriotism to speak up against the Biden Administration’s deliberate efforts to destroy our national security. They paid an unjust price for doing so — betrayed by an administration that protected lawbreakers and punished law enforcement,” Noem said.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) spearheaded the effort to reinstate the trio of “brave” whistleblowers for noting in February 2018 that DHS wasn’t abiding by the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005.

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