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US authorities are collecting DNA information of children in criminal database
Collection of migrants’ DNA has increased by 5,000% in three years in a ‘massive expansion of genetic surveillance’
US immigration authorities are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, including children, to a national criminal database, according to government documents released earlier this month. We are not letting human smugglers, child sex traffickers and other criminals enter American communities,” Hilton Beckham, the assistant commissioner of public affairs at CBP, told Wired in a statement. “How would it change your behavior to know that the government had a drop of your blood – or saliva – containing your ‘entire genetic code, which will be kept indefinitely in a government-controlled refrigerator in a warehouse in Northern Virginia’?” the report reads, quoting CBP’s documents.
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