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Records show ICE and CBP collected DNA from nearly one million migrants, including young children, stored in CODIS database alongside convicted offenders with no separate civil index. Privacy advocates are raising alarm over the scope and lack of oversight.
ICE and CBP have collected DNA samples from nearly a million migrants—including young children—and stored them in CODIS, the same database used for convicted criminals. There's no separate civil index, meaning a child detained at the border gets filed alongside people with criminal convictions. The scale is staggering: a million samples with minimal public awareness until privacy advocates flagged it. No congressional vote authorized this. No agency separately oversees it. It's a surveillance infrastructure built quietly.
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