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U.S. Immigration Authorities Are Adding Children’s DNA To a Criminal Database | New reports offer more insight on the extent of the U.S.'s biometric surveillance of immigrants.
New reports offer more insight on the extent of the U.S.'s biometric surveillance of immigrants.
CODIS stores DNA profiles from convicted offenders, unsolved crime scenes, and missing persons cases for local, state, and federal law enforcement use. The California Law Review critiqued the DOJ’s decision as one that “may be the first to result in the government’s widespread, permanent retention of genetic materials based solely on a status other than a criminal arrest or conviction.” We are not letting human smugglers, child sex traffickers, and other criminals enter American communities,” Hilton Beckham, assistant commissioner of public affairs at CBP, told Wired.
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