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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 03 2019, @11:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-watch-the-watchers dept.

U.S. to Collect DNA of All Undocumented Migrants:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is developing a plan to take DNA samples from each of the undocumented immigrants and store it in a national database for criminal DNA profiles, they said.

Speaking to journalists on grounds of anonymity, DHS officials said the new policy would give immigration and border control agents a broader picture of the migrant and detainee situation.

And stored on the FBI's CODIS DNA database, it could also be used by others in law enforcement and beyond.

[...] Officials said they were in fact required to take the DNA samples by rules about the handling of arrested and convicted people that were issued by the Justice Department in 2006 and 2010, but which had not been implemented.

They said the program for collecting DNA was still being developed, and they did not have a date set for implementation.

Collecting and storing the DNA of people simply detained and not tried or convicted of a crime has drawn criticism from civil rights advocates.

"Forced DNA collection raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns and lacks justification, especially when DHS is already using less intrusive identification methods like fingerprinting," Vera Eidelman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement.

"This kind of mass collection also alters the purpose of DNA collection from one of criminal investigation to population surveillance, which is contrary to our basic notions of freedom and autonomy," Eidelman said.

If it becomes okay to do this to "them", how long will it take before they want to do it to "us"?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @01:08PM (29 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @01:08PM (#902252)

    US likes their slaves.

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @01:51PM (28 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @01:51PM (#902262) Homepage Journal

    The US had a shorter history of slavery than pretty much any empire that ever had it (pretty much all of them). Care to try again?

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    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @02:42PM (16 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @02:42PM (#902280)

      The US was just late to the party. They held on to their slavery well after the rest of the world was enlightened. Even after "officially" ending slavery it took decades of riots and deaths to actually end the segregation and discrimination. One could argue there are many parts of the US today that still practice segregation and discrimination. It's just more neatly presented now.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @02:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @02:55PM (#902287)

        The only thing worse than racism is a SJW.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:47PM (14 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:47PM (#902317) Homepage Journal

        Nope, try again. The US didn't even have slavery for a full hundred years, so it doesn't qualify for "long after" unless you're talking about nations that didn't even exist anymore in 1865.

        As for segregation, that's pretty much entirely self-selection nowadays, so you don't get anyone to blame.

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        • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:35PM (13 children)

          by JNCF (4317) on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:35PM (#902341) Journal

          The US didn't even have slavery for a full hundred years,

          Nope, try readIng a history book. The first President owned slaves, and Jamestown got African slaves in the 1600s.

          • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:50PM (12 children)

            by JNCF (4317) on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:50PM (#902347) Journal

            Okay, bad context parsing on my part (TMB onviously meant "hundred years after other countries ended it").

            • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:07PM (11 children)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:07PM (#902351) Homepage Journal

              Nah, I meant before 1776 there was no US. In 1775 they were British slave owners. Once we took governance in our own hands, we got rid of slavery pretty damned quickly compared to most anyone else.

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              • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:16PM (4 children)

                by JNCF (4317) on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:16PM (#902357) Journal

                Well then you're being obtuse. In absolute terms (i.e. year of emancipation), we got rid of it slower than the obvious comparison states. You're just making a silly argument based on when we had a revolution, despite knowing full well that the institution of slavery was around before and after that date. It's not like your record of horrors gets erased the moment you raise a new flag, the institutions that became the new government were pieces of the old one before it.

                • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:28PM (3 children)

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:28PM (#902367) Homepage Journal

                  No, I'm saying you can't hang anything from before the US existed on the US. We had no say in our governance and cannot be held accountable for for it prior to 1776. If you want to hang the pre-revolution slavery on anyone, you have no choice but to hang it on Britain.

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                  • (Score: 2, Touché) by dry on Friday October 04 2019, @01:48AM (2 children)

                    by dry (223) on Friday October 04 2019, @01:48AM (#902513) Journal

                    You had quite a bit of self-governance before 1776, which is why you had legal things that were illegal in the mother country. You guys just got pissed at the King saying everyone was equal, including Jesuits and Natives, and no, you couldn't steal the natives land or keep Catholics out of office so you revolted for the freedom to repress others and have done a good job of it for close to 250 years.

              • (Score: 2) by dry on Friday October 04 2019, @01:44AM (5 children)

                by dry (223) on Friday October 04 2019, @01:44AM (#902510) Journal

                Actually, it was some British colonies that had legal slavery due to Great Britain allowing some self-government. Slavery was illegal in England and Great Britain. So it was the American colonists who decided slavery was legal, I believe by doing an end run around the thing about being put into servitude for X years as a punishment.

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @01:53AM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @01:53AM (#902517)

                  Get it through your skull: the colonists were people straight from Britain living under British law.
                  No USA yet.

                  • (Score: 3, Touché) by dry on Friday October 04 2019, @02:23AM

                    by dry (223) on Friday October 04 2019, @02:23AM (#902526) Journal

                    They were colonists from several nations, eg New York was originally Dutch and they all had legislatures. A couple of links if you'd like to educate yourself,
                    https://www.thoughtco.com/colonial-governments-of-the-thirteen-colonies-104595 [thoughtco.com]
                    And from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_government_in_the_Thirteen_Colonies [wikipedia.org]

                    Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies of North America shared many attributes. While each of the Thirteen Colonies, eventually to become the original United States had its own unique history and development, many common features and patterns emerged in their governing institutions and operations.

                    The representatives of the government of the colonies represented the colony an extension of the English government. Courts enforced the common law of England. The Governor's Council or the Governor's Court was a body of senior advisers to the appointed royal Governor in each province.

                    The legislative body, which went by various names from colony to colony and through time, was elected by the enfranchised voters. By 1755, most free white men could vote. In colonial New England there were annual town meetings, where each colonist had a voice.[1]

                    Diplomatic affairs were handled by London, as were some trade policies.[2] The colonies generally handled domestic matters (and wars with the Native Americans), but England – and after 1707, Great Britain – handled foreign wars.[2] (Royal Colony)

                • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 06 2019, @04:12AM (2 children)

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 06 2019, @04:12AM (#903290) Homepage Journal

                  Sorry, no. It didn't become illegal in Britain until 1807. Prior to that Britain was the largest slave trading nation in the world.

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                  • (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday October 06 2019, @04:43AM (1 child)

                    by dry (223) on Sunday October 06 2019, @04:43AM (#903298) Journal

                    Slave trading nation, true. Legal in Great Britain, very questionable due to this thing called Habeas corpus. Sorta like how America can do things out of country that would be illegal in country. It's even commonly argued that the Bill of Rights only apply to American citizens.

                    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday October 06 2019, @06:17AM

                      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday October 06 2019, @06:17AM (#903305) Homepage Journal

                      Dude, I get that Brits don't like being the primary asshats in the historical African slave trade but they absolutely were. They brought slavery to the colonies and they sold the slaves to the colonies. For hundreds of years they treated Africans worse than cattle. That it took us 89 years to get rid of it after giving them the boot is both impressive in its historical brevity and atrocious in that we didn't do it immediately. It does not remotely mitigate anything they did nor does it make us even close to their level of bastardry though.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:06PM (8 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:06PM (#902296)

      The German empire didn't have slavery. Neither the Austro-Hungarian empire. Nor the Russian empire.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:48PM (3 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @03:48PM (#902320) Homepage Journal

        I'm not even going to bother disputing those because you named three out of all empires throughout history.

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        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:04PM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:04PM (#902327)

          Awww he's back to the easily triggered manly man. I thought he might have had some minor progress with self reflection. Keep it dumb bird brain, never change!

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:08PM (1 child)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:08PM (#902353) Homepage Journal

            You need to look up the word "triggered". Either it doesn't mean what you think it means or you're atrocious at picking up tone from text.

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            • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:51AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 04 2019, @03:51AM (#902534)

              Sup bird brain, do I look like a plumber? Clean your own shit clogged pipes.

      • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:40PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @04:40PM (#902343)

        German Nazis’ use of slave labor in industry... Up to nine million people, mostly Jews, were forced to work to absolute exhaustion.
        Way before that... The term 'Slavs' represented the slave industry in that part of Europe.
        You're an Idiot.

        • (Score: 2, Disagree) by JNCF on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:07PM (1 child)

          by JNCF (4317) on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:07PM (#902352) Journal

          "The German Empire" generally refers to the Second Reich, not the Third. I'm making no claims as to whether they had slaves or not, but I don't think any statements about Nazi Germany were made in the comment you're replying to.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:47PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:47PM (#902445) Journal

          German Nazis’ use of slave labor in industry...

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Empire [wikipedia.org]

          The term 'Slavs' represented the slave industry in that part of Europe.

          Good point! The Russian Empire was clearly involved in slavery because their thousand-year-back ancestors were enslaved [wiktionary.org]

          Slave - etymology
          From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclāvus (“Slav”), because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages.[1][2][3][4][5] The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos), see that entry and Slav for more.

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    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:22PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:22PM (#902362)

      The US had a shorter history of slavery than pretty much any empire that ever had it (pretty much all of them).

      So, your defense is "well, sure, we owned people as property for a time, but we didn't do it as much as some others"? Color me unimpressed.

      Care to try again?

      Ball is back in your court. And, next time, try not to embarrass yourself (and all the rest of us, your fellow citizens) in the process.