Federal Gestapo Agents
Now Collecting DNA
From Every Migrant Child
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Gestapo agents are collecting DNA information of all immigrant children in a criminal database.
“Authorities” are collecting and uploading the DNA information of migrants, to a national criminal database, according to government documents released earlier this month.
Wired first reported the practice and the existence of these documents, and estimates there are more than 133,000 migrant teens and children whose DNA has been collected and uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System—CODIS.
One of them was just four years old.
The database includes the DNA of people who were either arrested or convicted of a crime, which law enforcement uses when seeking a match for DNA collected at a crime scene.
However, most of the people whose DNA has been collected by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency that published the documents, were NOT listed as having been accused of any crime.
Regardless, CBP is now creating a detailed DNA profile on migrants that will be permanently searchable by law enforcement, which amounts to a
“massive expansion of genetic surveillance,” one expert said.
The DNA information is stored in a database managed by the FBI called CODIS, which is used across the country by local, state and federal law enforcement to identify suspects of crimes using their DNA data.
Experts at Georgetown University and the Center on Privacy and Technology published a report last week that found that CBP was collecting the DNA of almost every migrant detained, regardless of how long they were detained. The agency has added more than 1,500,000 DNA profiles to CODIS since 2020, a 5,000% increase in just three years, according to the report.
It’s a “massive expansion of genetic surveillance and an unjustified invasion of privacy,” according to one of the authors of the report, Emerald Tse.
There are hundreds of thousands of entries of people whose DNA has been collected by CBP between 2020 and 2024. Of the more than 130,000 individuals who were children or teens, nearly 230 were children under the age of 13 and more than 30,000 were between 14 and 17 years old, according to Wired.
“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.
Would you feel free to:
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