The Border Chronicle, Aug. 6, 2024 "CBP’s sweeping DNA program places asylum seekers’ genetic profiles in a massive criminal investigations database without their knowledge."
Georgetown Law, May 21, 2024 "The U.S. government has a message to immigrant communities: we’re watching you, at the genetic level. A new report by the Center on Privacy & Technology, Raiding the Genome: How the United States Government Is...
"The collection of biometrics—including fingerprints, DNA, and face-recognition ready photographs—is becoming more and more a part of society. Both the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are in the process...
"The day Hoang left Vietnam with her new Vietnamese-American fiancé, she knew it would take a while before she'd get the chance to petition for her 10-year-old son Dat Le to join her in the United States. While she expected a long haul, she couldn't...
Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press, Jan. 6, 2020 "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...
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 204 / Tuesday, October 22, 2019 "The Department of Justice is proposing to amend regulations that require DNA-sample collection from individuals who are arrested, facing charges, or convicted, and from non-United States persons...
UNCLASSIFIED 17 STATE 6984, Jan 24, 2017 - "Consular Officers should be made aware that 9 FAM 601.11-1 (A)(3) and 9 FAM 601.11-1 (B) have been amended to allow for submission of direct sibling-to sibling and half-sibling DNA test results as one way of establishing...
October 17, 2014 PM-602-0106 DNA Evidence of Sibling Relationships for Service Centers, Domestic and International Field Offices "This policy memorandum (PM) articulates USCIS policy on acceptance of DNA evidence in support of sibling relationships....