ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

By Dhruv Mehrotra August 3, 2026 10 views

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

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Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

Originally published at Wired

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ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

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