Homeland Security stonewalling info on noncitizen DNA collection operation, lawsuit alleges
Source: NBC News
June 2, 2025, 6:30 PM EDT
The Trump administration has been turning to DNA technology to help find and arrest immigrants, including children, but immigration advocates say it has been slow to spell out how it's using and overseeing the genetic information. Three groups sued the Department of Homeland Security on Monday after trying to get records about the data collection program since last summer, during the Biden administration.
The plaintiffs are the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, part of the Georgetown University Law School that focuses on privacy and surveillance law and policy; the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights and Americans for Immigrant Justice, both immigrant rights groups.
The groups describe in their lawsuit their back-and-forth with DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since they originally requested information about their DNA collection from noncitizens on Aug. 1, 2024.
Since 2020, DHS has expanded its DNA collection program and increased DNA contributions to the FBI's database, CODIS, by 5,000%, becoming the largest contributor, according to the Georgetown center. The DNA database of the FBI can be accessed by police across the country for criminal investigations, the plaintiff groups said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-dna-collection-immigrants-lawsuit-privacy-concerns-rcna210466
Link to PRESS RELEASE - Immigration Advocates Sue DHS Demanding Transparency about Coercive DNA Collection Practices
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://amicacenter.org/app/uploads/2025/06/01-Complaint.pdf
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143469160
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