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U.S. to Collect DNA of All Undocumented Migrants

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

martyb writes:

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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• Re:What Part of IllegalRe:What Part of Illegal (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.

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• Re:What Part of IllegalRe:What Part of Illegal (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.

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  • Re:What Part of Illegal(Score: 2) by inertnet on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:54PM

    by inertnet (4071) on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:54PM (#902447) Journal

    Germany had slaves [wikipedia.org] too.

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• Re:What Part of Illegal(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 03 2019, @09:47PM

  by c0lo (156) 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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