Vatic Note: This is very interesting considering DNA collection in two categories has been going on for sometime now. WHY? Its the most invasion violations of our right to privacy when there is no probable cause to collect it.
New born babies have not committed any crimes yet. I can partially understand collecting if from prisoners, but not new borns. We made no noise about it when we learned our new borns will be recorded and tracked. its what you would do with your cattle to control breeding, track whereabouts for your entire life, and to circumvent the 5th amendment against self incrimination.
We are suffering from "gradualism". Half the people in this nation, if not the world, have no idea all this is going on. I remember a G-20 meeting shortly after 9-11 and emailed and posted that meeting on alternative sites and the comment was pulled and I was banned again, because I reported that at the meeting, everyone agreed that globally their objective was to track every single individual on the planet and it was to be done through chipping and DNA collection. Here we are 10 years later and its happening. Resist your children being DNA collected.
If you believe this is about tracking illegals, then think again about how the patriot act was only for foreign terrorists, or so they said. Now its being used against Americans. So, believe nothing of what they say and only half of what you see. You can take it to the bank that if the khazars are involved which they are, its going to look like Palestine soon. It's all they know, control and violence. The only reason I am considering the existance of Lizards is because its the only explanation for such inhumane actions and thoughts on these animals part.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/dhs-considers-collecting-dna-kids-dea-and-us-marshals-already-do
By: Jennifer Lynch
Date: 2012-05-14
Documents just released by US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) in response to one of EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests show that DHS
is considering collecting DNA from kids ages 14 and up—and is exploring
expanding its regulations to allow collection from kids younger than
that.
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New born babies have not committed any crimes yet. I can partially understand collecting if from prisoners, but not new borns. We made no noise about it when we learned our new borns will be recorded and tracked. its what you would do with your cattle to control breeding, track whereabouts for your entire life, and to circumvent the 5th amendment against self incrimination.
We are suffering from "gradualism". Half the people in this nation, if not the world, have no idea all this is going on. I remember a G-20 meeting shortly after 9-11 and emailed and posted that meeting on alternative sites and the comment was pulled and I was banned again, because I reported that at the meeting, everyone agreed that globally their objective was to track every single individual on the planet and it was to be done through chipping and DNA collection. Here we are 10 years later and its happening. Resist your children being DNA collected.
If you believe this is about tracking illegals, then think again about how the patriot act was only for foreign terrorists, or so they said. Now its being used against Americans. So, believe nothing of what they say and only half of what you see. You can take it to the bank that if the khazars are involved which they are, its going to look like Palestine soon. It's all they know, control and violence. The only reason I am considering the existance of Lizards is because its the only explanation for such inhumane actions and thoughts on these animals part.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/dhs-considers-collecting-dna-kids-dea-and-us-marshals-already-do
By: Jennifer Lynch
Date: 2012-05-14
The proposal appears to be working its way through DHS in the wake of regulations from the Department of Justice that require
all federal agencies—including DHS and its components such as ICE—to
collect DNA from individuals arrested for federal crimes as well as
“from non-United States persons who are detained under the authority of
the United States,” whether or not they have been involved in criminal
activity.
While the law specifically exempts a few classes of “aliens,” the documents we received show DHS may start DNA collection from anyone it fingerprints. Currently, that’s any child over 14 who’s detained, but we also found records that show ICE could lower that age even more.
While the law specifically exempts a few classes of “aliens,” the documents we received show DHS may start DNA collection from anyone it fingerprints. Currently, that’s any child over 14 who’s detained, but we also found records that show ICE could lower that age even more.
DHS estimates that as many as 1 million people who are subject to administrative detention or arrest annually could now be subject to DNA collection. But it’s important to note that many of these people are not involved in criminal activity. Collecting
DNA from anyone detained by the government for any number of
non-criminal reasons—especially juveniles—seems to be yet another step
on the slippery slope to collecting DNA from everyone in the United
States, no matter their status.
ICE is the first component within DHS to collect DNA under the new DOJ regulations. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) offices in San Diego, St. Paul, and San Juan, Puerto Rico are
part of a 6-month pilot program to test out the new procedures and were
set to start collecting DNA around July 2010.
After the pilot program, the rest of HSI’s offices (more than 200
throughout the US and abroad) will start collecting DNA and presumably
all other DHS components will follow suit shortly thereafter.
When the DOJ expanded its DNA collection
regulations in 2009, it specifically required agencies to collect DNA
from all populations they fingerprint. DHS regulations allow the agency to collect biometrics from aliens coming into the US who are 14 and older, so DHS can currently collect DNA from kids this age as well.
However, the agency may also be considering collecting biometrics from
kids younger than 14. A slide presentation from March 2011, titled “Working Group on Expanding the Biometric Age Range”
notes that some DHS programs are already collecting biometrics from
kids younger than 14 and proposes expanding the age range for more DHS
entities (including ICE). Because of the DOJ regulations, this would mean that DHS could collect DNA even from very young kids.
It turns out that DHS is not the first federal or
even state agency to collect DNA from juveniles. The records ICE
released show that the US Marshals are required to collect DNA from juveniles whenever the Marshals collect fingerprints. And the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) internal regulations
make clear that “Both adults and juveniles who are fingerprinted are
subject to DNA sample collection.” Its agents may also collect DNA from
non-United States persons who are merely detained (not formally
arrested). And according to the Council for Responsible Genetics, twenty-eight states already collect DNA from juvenile offenders, as well.
However, a DNA collection program run by DHS feels
very different because it could affect so many people who have no
involvement with the criminal justice system. EFF has strongly
criticized warrantless DNA collection in criminal contexts, as we’ve
discussed here, here and here. The DOJ argues
that collecting DNA from all people arrested and non-US persons
detained will allow it to find and identify more criminals, solve more
crimes, and “prevent and deter subsequent criminal conduct.” but it is
hard to see how that argument couldn’t be extended to apply with equal
force to mandated DNA collection from everyone.
DNA reveals an extraordinary amount of private
information about you, including family background, medical history,
predisposition for disease, and possibly even behavioral tendencies and
sexual orientation. Once the federal government collects a DNA sample—no
matter which agency does the collection—the sample is sent to the FBI
for storage, and the extracted profile is incorporated into the FBI’s
massive CODIS database, which already contains over 10.5 million “offender” profiles.
It is next to impossible to have your DNA expunged from the database
once it’s already in there, and once it’s in CODIS it is subject to
repeated warrantless searches from all levels of state and federal law
enforcement.
For the short term, DHS’s DNA collection program may be quite limited. ICE has redacted most concrete information about the timetable for implementation, but it is not clear that DHS has begun collecting any DNA. The documents ICE released indicate some agency infighting between the DOJ (which requires the DNA collection) and DHS (which considers this requirement to be an expensive unfunded mandate), and it is not clear if the two agencies have yet worked this out.
DHS also appears to recognize the political costs of collecting DNA from people outside the criminal justice system. In a March 22, 2010 letter
from DHS Secretary Napolitano to Attorney General Holder, Napolitano
sought an exemption to DNA collection from juveniles under 18. Hidden text within one of the documents1 recognizes that collecting DNA from juveniles could increase “ICE's exposure to criticism” and notes:
[t]here is a high likelihood that ICE would face litigation and other opposition from community and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) if ICE were to sample all juvenile detainees.
Further, it appears DHS is trying to avoid
publicizing the roll out. Hidden text on another page of the documents
notes that “OCR and OPA [ICE's Office of Congressional Relations and
Office of Public Affairs] intend to respond to inquiries, rather than
making announcements of the DNA sampling pilot program.”
DHS’s stalling is good for privacy in the short
run. However, given the hard line the DOJ has taken in past court cases
challenging DNA collection, the expansion of DNA collection from an
ever-broader array of Americans and immigrants appears imminent.
Follow these links to view all the documents we received from ICE:
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