Donald Trump · Federal Reserve (FED) · FBI · Ars Technica
DHS can’t create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, suit confirms
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Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity.
Key facts
- Four protesters are suing to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from seizing DNA samples from Americans arrested while peacefully protesting
- In a 2013 case, the Supreme Court held that authorities can collect DNA without violating Fourth Amendment restrictions against unreasonable searches under “one set of circumstances,” protesters
- Jacqueline Guataquira, a 30-year-old graphic designer and longtime advocate for immigrant communities, also fears how her DNA sample might impact her family
- In the rush to follow Trump’s orders to swarm streets nationwide with ICE agents, DHS cut more than 240 hours of courses, shaving off weeks of training that would’ve taught agents how to control
Summary
In a complaint filed in an Illinois district court on Wednesday, protesters arrested at the Broadview ICE facility during “Operation Midway Blitz”—when thousands of federal agents flooded Chicago—demanded an injunction to stop alleged violations of the First and Fourth Amendments, as well as the Administrative Procedure Act. They have accused the federal government of “wrongfully arresting peaceful protesters, collecting their DNA, uploading their genetic profiles to government databases, and storing their DNA samples in federal labs—permanently.” Out of 92 non-immigration arrests at Broadview, they emphasized, only one protester was convicted.