The U.S. government has adopted a breakthrough DNA testing system that will allow border agents to verify the familial relationships between migrants coming to the border within 90 minutes.

In June the FBI approved the use of ANDE, an automated system that processes cheek swabs and other DNA, cross-references the sample with an external database, and is operable by non-scientists.

The system identifies a subject's DNA within 90 minutes and can verify the relationships between the wave of migrants trying to enter the U.S.

ANDE is now under consideration by the Department of Homeland Security and could be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but hasn't been officially announced yet.

A DNA system called ANDE, that was approved by the FBI in June, could verify the familial ties between migrants coming to the border in just 90 minutes

The machine processes cheek swabs and other DNA and cross-references the sample with an external database, identifying a subject's DNA in 90 minutes

The FBI used ANDE to identify human remains found after last year's Northern California wildfires.

One of the biggest hurdles current law enforcement faces is being unable to verify familial relationship other than by paper documents.

The system could change the way migrants are processed at the border thanks to its speed, producing results in less than two hours compared to the weeks it typically takes at police or federal law enforcement labs.

'One of the things that we've seen a huge increase in and our partners in CBP [Customs and Border Protection] have seen, too, is the use of fraudulent documents,' Derek Benner, the deputy director of ICE's Homeland Security investigations arm, said during a speech in Texas last week.

'Today when we're confronted with family units — I actually call them unverified family units because it's difficult to know but for the expertise of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents, who are able to question or interrogate that family situation based on the evidence that they have on their person and statements that they're able to get from the adults — they do the best they can, and then absent any other information their claim goes as is,' he added.

Border law enforcement struggle to verify migrant family units because they're often confronted with falsified documents. Migrants pictured above at the border wall

'Ninety minutes later we have an identification of that person, then we can swab the relatives and we can determine if they are blood relatives,' ANDE spokesperson Annette Mattern said. Central American migrants pictured at the border fence in Tijuana, Mexico in November 2018

With the new technology families could be confirmed with efficiency and speed.

'Identifying an individual at the border today probably requires an officer to say, "I don’t know if this is their kid or not their kid,"' ANDE DNA spokesperson Annette Mattern said to the Washington Examiner.

'DNA doesn’t have to make those judgments. It’s just science.

'Ninety minutes later we have an identification of that person, then we can swab the relatives and we can determine if they are blood relatives. But today, my understanding is there is no DNA that is being done at the port [of entry],' she added.

ANDE was co-developed with the military when the Pentagon needed mobile DNA processing for missions in the Middle East and needed to be machine to be easily portable, such as on the back of a Humvee.