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Starting Monday, CBP will collect swabs from people apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol at the Canadian border in or near Detroit, as well as people detained at the official port of entry at Eagle Pass, Texas, across from Piedras Negras, Mexico. CBP said its pilot program will last 90 days. In Detroit, people as young as 14 will be subject to DNA collection.

The memo said agents will not take DNA from people entering the country legally or being held for further screening without being placed into detention.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is currently holding more than 40,000 people in medium- or long-term detention, will designate one of its jails for pilot testing. Both ICE and CBP will eventually expand their data collection nationally, according to the memo.

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Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 31924837)

If this continues, expands and remains, it will be a matter of time until CBP collects the DNA of some US citizens entering the country legally and yet being held for further screening with or without being placed into detention facilities. Even having prima facie evidence of US citizenship and identity and being free of criminal history/activity may not be a timely shield against such governmental collection of DNA.

Even if this were restricted to detention facilities, what constitutes a detention facility may not even be static over time.

Originally Posted by petaluma1 (Post 31932370)

It will continue, it will remain and it will expand until everyone entering the country is tested for DNA.

Originally Posted by ls17031 (Post 31933061)

Testing everyone for DNA is quite pointless as a positive result is guaranteed in all cases.