Wired·5 min read·medium
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
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Dhruv Mehrotra
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ICE is aggressively expanding the collection of DNA samples from individuals held for civil immigration violations, funneling nearly one million profiles into the FBI's criminal database. This practice continues despite the fact that most detainees have no criminal record, raising significant privacy and civil liberty concerns.
According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office. There, one deportation officer after another approached him with the same demand.
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