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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

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The records, quietly released by the US Customs and Border Protection earlier this year, offer the most detailed look to date at the scale of CBP’s controversial DNA collection program. Some of the minors whose DNA was collected are American citizens. Link: www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

The DOJ has argued that DNA collection at the border will help solve crimes in the future. But experts say that the children’s raw genetic material will be stored indefinitely and worry that it could be used for more extensive profiling. Link: www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

If the government’s goal is to determine whether a detainee is connected to past crimes, one privacy expert tells WIRED, there would be no need to add DNA to CODIS—they could simply check for a match against existing profiles. Read the full story by @dmehro.bsky.social

wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

At the start of the year, WIRED made a commitment to stop paywalling articles primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act @freedom.press. This includes this critical piece here. The US Is storing migrant children’s DNA in a criminal database:

wired.comThe US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal DatabaseCustoms and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

After all is over, all these people who did these awful unethical things need to be prosecuted—from the top down. Let's make it clear now that you cannot get away with this criminal weaponization of the government.

“As many as 122 minors were categorized as American citizens, 53 of whom were not detained for any criminal arrest, CBP records say. (People asking to enter the US to apply for asylum are put in civil rather than criminal custody.)”. Trump’s 4 kids should be in the database! 3 are already criminals

Besides the huge waste of tax $ this is an over reach of ‘law enforcement’. Ethnically and racially motivated ‘surveillance’ of children!? These children are not criminals except in the eyes of anyone who agrees with the current orange fascist and ‘Republican’ party. Abhorrent!!!!

Talk about Big Brother watching you! Trump and his Republican cult are so paranoid that they probably dream every night how they can put a fence around the United States so that no one can enter but everyone can leave and never come back! So completely sick!

Without permission. international Court of Human Rights - bang em up. I’m pointing at Elon Shitler and the rest of the 🍊 Taco administration. Take ICE also. Nuremberg the lot of them

For anyone who didn't read the article this happened under Bidens watch from 2020-2024. Don't be like maga's who make excuses for everything Dump does.

I was a bit shocked when leaving the US after a short trip this week. American Airlines took photos of every passenger who boarded along with passports ID and then announced that all US citizen data will be deleted. So if you are a non US traveller to the US, they will have all your details on file.

Don’t you need a court order to compel a DNA sample? Every time they get away with violating a non-citizen’s rights, born citizens have their rights eroded. Non citizens are protected by our constitution and an attack on their rights is an attack on ours.

Trump’s America is F#cking amoral, totally corrupt, isolationist racist separatist fascist P25/Esther. Who? Who! Who would EVER want to visit, enter, or move to USA now - apart from far right whities, bigots, Nazis Christian nationalists, weak white males, corrupt greedy criminal entrepreneurs?

Trump needs his DNA uploaded as he and Epstein raped girls. Case 2016, 1:16cv-07673RA Southern District NY. Women was 13 when then raped her. Public record now. She dropped case as they threatened her, Trump’s good at threats😡

Unless EVERY person, housed in or a citizen of America, has their DNA stored, then ICE'S treatment is wrong. I guarantee Americans will not ALLOW their government to control or track them through their DNA. Crimes, by US citizens, are 100 fold more than the undocumented