Posted on 03/06/2020 7:16:10 AM PST by karpov
The Trump administration plans to begin taking DNA samples from migrants crossing the border or held in detention for use in a federal criminal database, a significant expansion of immigration laws that is certain to raise privacy concerns.
The new rule, posted by the Justice Department on Friday and set to take effect in April, will require immigration officers to collect cheek swabs from what could amount to hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrants taken into federal custody each year, including migrants at the border and people asking for asylum.
The move, which is sure to face court challenges, injects a new civil-rights issue into the debate about immigration policy. It will amount to a significant expansion of the government’s DNA database, operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that primarily contains samples from people accused of committing serious crimes.
Collecting DNA samples from immigrants has long been one method floated to better track criminals who had once been in federal immigration custody but might not otherwise be known to law-enforcement officials. In 2005, Congress passed a sweeping new law giving the government more authority to DNA-test and fingerprint criminals, an expansion of government power after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, though it permitted the Department of Homeland Security not to take these measures with immigrants in its custody. The Obama administration exercised that exemption, arguing such a collection effort would amount to an impossibly cumbersome task.
Officials with the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security told reporters on Thursday that the expansion brings the government in better compliance with that 2005 law. The Justice Department has also argued the administration feels compelled to move ahead with the plan because it could help the government better identify immigrants who might commit crimes in the future.
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So as to actually catch people who defy re-entry bans. Smart.
Just think how many unsolved cases will be resolved!
Shoulda been doing that all along anyway
So as to actually catch people who defy re-entry bans. Smart.
Or to catch illegal criminals, who left their DNA after commiting rape, murder or some other violent crime.
hundreds of thousands per year!! What a huge task! It’s too big, undoable. So we should just do nothing. (/Democrat)
Which in itself will keep a lot of them where they are in order to avoid the test.
Just think how many unsolved cases will be resolved!
Bingo!
Serious unsolved cases from rape, murder, serious body harm to victims and ?????
A typical cheap labor sob story by the WSJ. If you don’t want your cheek swabbed, don’t sneak into our country.
"Privacy concerns"? Horsefeathers!
This is already the law, with DHS "permitted" to not implement. President Trump is simply revoking the permit. Criminal invaders (crossing the border is a crime) have to "privacy concerns" regarding their DNA.
It will also tend to identify the child traffickers who bring unrelated kids to try and worm their way in.
Ugh - Criminal invaders (crossing the border is a crime) have *NO* “privacy concerns” regarding their DNA.
Which in itself will keep a lot of them where they are in order to avoid the test.
Exactly my FRiend.
If they on previous illegal trips into America committed a serious crime and left their DNA.
They might decide to stay south of the border or where ever they are now living.
A typical cheap labor sob story by the WSJ. If you don’t want your cheek swabbed, don’t sneak into our country.
The Trump administration plans to begin taking DNA samples from migrants crossing the border or held in detention
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They are illegal aliens, not immigrants.
“It will also tend to identify the child traffickers who bring unrelated kids to try and worm their way in.”
Then, after arriving in America, they sell those innocent children into becoming sex objects.
This collection of DNA is a subject near and dear to my heart.
I have posted before a program and written successive administrations on implementation of a program.
It would identify the parents of a baby, certainly within the home radius with almost 98% probability - which would rule out who is not the father.
DNA testing of every baby born in the United States would help reduce child support payments by the USG and put the financial responsibility upon the very people who created a baby.
DNA testing could and would help medial analysis of your probability of disease, identification of actual health problems and help to heal people other than the immediate sample.
DNA testing would help identify criminals.
DNA testing by the USG would in a single generation achieve 100% identification of the daddy - and if increase or rape or parents are involved in the creation of a DNA sample (read baby) we can imprison sexual predators.
For the Black Community the ramifications could life their society.
Illegal: This is my daughter.
CBP: Um, no she isn’t.
I know more than guy that is paying child support even after proving the kid wasn’t their kid in court with DNA results.
Not sure that DNA is a silver bullet.
AFT
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