WIRED: USA has been storing migrant children's DNA in a criminal database

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https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-dna-migrant-children-fbi-codis/

Spanning from October 2020 through the end of 2024, the records show that CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people, with experts estimating that the true figure, excluding duplicates, is likely well over 1.5 million. That number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children.

The DNA samples are registered in the Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, a database administered by the FBI, which processes the DNA and stores the resulting genetic profiles. A network of criminal forensic databases, CODIS is used by local, state, and federal enforcement agencies to match DNA collected from crime scenes or convictions to identify suspects.

 

[Vandelay]

This country and world are on a crash course.

 

[CP3.]

Evil, evil country.

I fukking hate the border and custom shyt in America. It's way too far. Gotta give fingerprints, take your clothes off, take your shoes off etc just to get through the fukking airport. Paranoid weirdos.

 

[BucciMane]

Evil, evil country.

I fukking hate the border and custom shyt in America. It's way too far. Gotta give fingerprints, take your clothes off, take your shoes off etc just to get through the fukking airport. Paranoid weirdos.

Tell me you’ve never traveled to another country without telling me. .


Go walk into China or Russia and let me know how it goes.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Tell me you’ve never traveled to another country without telling me. .


Go walk into China or Russia and let me know how it goes.

I've been to China. what are you talking about that one should be concerned about?

 

[CP3.]

Tell me you’ve never traveled to another country without telling me. .


Go walk into China or Russia and let me know how it goes.

Your defensive response is to come back with two of the most oppressive, equally paranoid regimes in the world? You may as well have thrown North Korea in there too.

And for what it's worth, I just travelled to another country 2 weeks ago

If anything, your response tells me it's YOU that's never travelled to other countries if you think any of that shyt is normal. Go travel in Europe and you'll see how different it is.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

This country and world are on a crash course.

The world will be okay, but America is crashing out.

When capitalism fails to deliver, fascism is ready to blame everything except the people who have abused their power to impoverish others and enrich themselves.

Migrants commit crimes at a rate lower than citizens. They know this but they need to create a story in your mind that these easily identifiable people are the real problem instead of them. It worked in Germany, it worked in Italy and they're trying to make it work here.

 

[Chrishaune]

I'm sure they have.

 

[ORDER_66]

I mean of course who else they gonna get for the prison labor industrial complex...

 

[MajesticLion]

But of course they have.

 

[Vandelay]

The world will be okay, but America is crashing out.

When capitalism fails to deliver, fascism is ready to blame everything except the people who have abused their power to impoverish others and enrich themselves.

Migrants commit crimes at a rate lower than citizens. They know this but they need to create a story in your mind that these easily identifiable people are the real problem instead of them. It worked in Germany, it worked in Italy and they're trying to make it work here.

If the rest of the world makes it past these next 10-20 years, possibly. But they need to change course too. The underlying conditions that exist in the US, didn't start in the US, and still exist outside of the US too. US is just much closer to it's half-life.