Another Step Towards DNA Bigotry

DNA testing to prove kinship is a humiliating and degrading imposition on immigrants and their families.
The process is already difficult with all the documentation requiered, without these procedures. All of us are descendents from immigrantes, most people of all continents are the result of migration and immigration.
Our world is in a sad state...

Family ties are not evan the tip of the ice burg. We'll be looking for people pron to desise, or criminal activity. In one study there was a claim that homosexuals have a gentic signature.

should we just go back to measuring skulls?

use life to create more false divisions.

so DNA is to become the new Great Wall of China, Berlin wall, Great Mexico/uSA wall?

Hi Tori.

The socio-political use of such a law is to play on people's often irrational fear of immigration. Forgetting the plummeting birthrates and the labor sectors that will never be fulfilled by the so-called French citizens. They focus on the idea that immigrants lie to get other immigrants into the country. It can surely happen and anyone who understands migration patterns would know that this is a global tradition.. a tradition I greatly respect. Personal example: I would never have been born if immigrants wouldn't be able to lie about the details of their status or family ties. But its a political game, because lots of people get behind such a law and immigrants are hardly represented in government so they can't really fight this except in the streets and that doesnt even work very well anymore.

Another item that is completely unreasonable, is that the DNA test will be unaffordable to most immigrants from poor or lower class backgrounds. It costs several hundred euros, and the process of moving your life and trying to make it in europe from say, Africa, is already risky and expensive.

This is an interesting question. Why shouldn't they use DNA? If someone is trying to enter the question claiming that they are the brother or parent or child of someone already there, why would a DNA test be a bad thing? I suspect the initiative was born out of a problem with people lying saying they are a relative of someone in country when in truth, they are just using that claim as a way in. DNA testing would not help in the case of a married couple who have no kids and therefore share no DNA, but in the case of blood relations trying to immigrate to reunite with family, it seems pretty straightforward to me - why does this worry you?