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NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

Their DNA profiles now reside in CODIS, an FBI database historically used to identify suspects in violent crimes. Critics argue the system—which retains information indefinitely by default—was never intended to hold genetic data from civil immigration detainees, especially minors.

“By including these children’s DNA in CODIS, their profiles will be queried every time a search is done of the database,” United States Senator Ron writes. “These children will be treated by law enforcement as suspects for every investigation of every future crime, indefinitely.”

Also, in May, WIRED reported on Customs and Border Protection swabbing the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to the FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Immigrants, under this regime, are more frequently targeted for biometric data collection because they are mostly powerless politically, unable to resist being cast as test subjects in surveillance programs that, once embedded, rarely retain their original scope.

She needs to go. How dare they take a person's dna.