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The U.S. government on Monday launched a pilot program to collect DNA from people in immigration custody and submit it to the FBI, with plans to expand nationwide. The information would go into a massive criminal database run by the FBI, where it would be held indefinitely. A memo outlining the program published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security said U.S. citizens and permanent residents holding a “green card” who are detained could be subject to DNA testing, as well as asylum seekers and people entering the country without authorization. Refusing to submit DNA could lead to a misdemeanor...

Amid a Beacon Hill showdown over police manpower, the state criminal database is clogged with an astounding 378,733 outstanding warrants for criminals who have slipped through the hands of authorities, a Herald probe has found. State public safety officials could not even provide an accurate count of the defective warrants that are fraught with incomplete or inaccurate information or issued for dead people. “The system is broken. If you have 378,000 warrants and 20,000 cops and some of these people are dead, some are out of state, some have changed their names or gave you a phony name - there...