DHS Collected DNA from 2,000 U.S. Citizens Without Due Process. It's Now in a Law Enforcement Database.

By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating ...

The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.
Wired

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal ...
Gizmodo

U.S. Immigration Authorities Are Adding Children’s DNA to a Criminal Database

As if the regular detainment of children isn’t bad enough, documents show that U.S. immigration authorities are adding their DNA to a criminal database. In less than five years, the U.S. has collected ...
Biometric Update

Genetic privacy erodes as millions of DNA profiles are entered into US database

Between 2020 and 2024, CBP took DNA from approximately 2,000 U.S. citizens, including at least 95 minors, and sent those ...

Investigators use nationwide DNA database to make arrest in New Haven sexual assault case

A Guatemalan national was arrested on Thursday after an alleged sexual assault in New Haven after DNA evidence seized at the ...