The US is storing migrant children’s DNA in a criminal database. Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-dna-migrant-children-fbi-codis/
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