The U.S. government has been quietly collecting DNA from migrant children on a massive scale and is now storing their genetic profiles in an FBI criminal database built to track violent offenders.

In a searing new report, Senator Ron Wyden demanded answers from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, accusing the Trump administration of turning immigrants (especially minors) into test subjects for a sprawling genetic surveillance system. Speaking with WIRED, RFK Human Rights’ VP of U.S. Advocacy and Litigation Anthony Enriquez warned, “the federal government’s project of mass DNA collection and genetic surveillance of immigrants has already begun to sweep up U.S. citizens.”

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