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.
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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
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:
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jesus chirst! Trump is claiming that @60minutes.bsky.social's interview of Harris caused him "mental anguish," per the lawsuit against them. Well, someone needs to get a class-action suit of ALL the families of these children for a suit against Trump/the CBP, FBI, DHS. This is INSANE!