特朗普政府从被拘留的移民身上收集脱氧核糖核酸并在国家刑事数据库中追踪他们的计划引发了愤怒，立法者和权利团体都谴责此次申办侵犯了移民的权利。
根据新政策，移民和海关执法及边境巡逻人员将能够从被拘留的移民中收集样本，并将数据存储在联邦数据库中，这意味着数十万人可以看到他们的数据保存在美国的记录中。
众议院国土安全委员会谴责这一举动，并警告说，“这不仅将逃离暴力和迫害的移民定为犯罪，而且还传播滥用大规模监控的行为。”
“我们不应该收集被拘留移民的基因，”委员会在周四的推特声明中说。
民主党众议员李金浔在自己的声明中谴责了在要求美国人不要“转移视线”之前测试“逃离暴力和苦难”的人的基因的计划，称其“绝对令人厌恶”
民主党众议员斯科特·彼得斯在谈到特朗普政府的家庭分离政策时，哀叹道，“在政府的残酷政策下，基因检测如果得到妥善利用，将有助于数千名与父母分离的儿童团聚。”。"相反，他们计划用它将移民添加到犯罪数据库中."
移民倡导组织称该计划措施为“恐吓策略”家庭属于一起叫做投标"极端的和不必要的"
“我们不能允许美国政府收集移民家庭的基因作为恐吓策略，”该组织说。"这是对移民及其家庭成员隐私的侵犯。"
这是极端和不必要的。我们不能让美国政府收集移民家庭的基因作为恐吓策略。这是对移民及其家庭成员隐私的侵犯。#移民英语 https://t.co/hB21olgfGD
—家庭属于一起(@fams2gether)2019年10月3日
在本周早些时候发表的一份声明中，美国公民自由联盟演讲、隐私和技术项目的一名工作人员律师维拉·艾德曼进一步警告了“强制收集脱氧核糖核酸”的广泛含义
艾德尔曼说:“强制收集脱氧核糖核酸引发了严重的隐私和公民自由问题，而且缺乏正当理由，尤其是当DHS已经在使用指纹等侵入性较小的识别方法时。”。
“我们的基因不仅深刻揭示了我们的个人信息，也揭示了我们亲属的信息，”她说。“这意味着政府的种族主义移民政策也将牵涉到其他国家的家庭成员和这里的家庭成员的权利，包括美国公民。”
艾德尔曼警告说:“这种大规模的收集改变了基因收集的目的，从刑事调查转变为人口监测，这违背了我们自由和自主的基本理念。”。
今年早些时候，特朗普政府收集的来自移民儿童的生物特征数据在美国和墨西哥边境，负责边境巡逻的美国海关和边境保护局告诉记者新闻周刊4月份，该测试是在“个案基础上进行的，以打击潜在的人口贩运”
收集的生物特征数据包括儿童指纹、虹膜扫描和照片。
当被问到新闻周刊边境官员和DHS计划将儿童的生物特征数据存档多长时间，CBP回应说，目前无法进一步置评。
CBP发言人里克·波扎告诉记者新闻周刊在另一份声明中，他们“一直在评估其他工具，如脱氧核糖核酸检测，是否能进一步加强保护儿童的努力。”
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN TO STORE MIGRANTS' DNA IN CRIMINAL DATABASE SLAMMED AS 'ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING' BY DEMOCRATS AND RIGHTS GROUPS
The Trump administration's plan to collect DNA from detained migrants and track them in a national criminal database has sparked outrage, with lawmakers and rights groups alike condemning the bid as a violation of migrants' rights.
Under the new policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents will be able to collect samples from migrants booked into detention and store their data in a federal database, meaning hundreds of thousands of people could see their data kept in U.S. records.
Condemning the move, the House Homeland Security Committee warned that "not only does it criminalize migrants who are fleeing violence and persecution, but it also propagates the abuse of mass surveillance."
"We should not be collecting the DNA of detained migrants," the committee said in a Twitter statement on Thursday.
In her own statement, Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee condemned the plan to test the DNA of people "fleeing violence and hardship" as "absolutely disgusting," before asking Americans not to "look away."
Fellow Democratic Rep. Scott Peters lamented how "DNA testing, when harnessed for good, could help reunite the thousands of children separated from their parents under the Administration's cruel policy," referring to the Trump administration's family separation policy. "Instead, they plan to use it to add immigrants to a criminal database."
Calling the planned measure a "scare tactic," immigration advocacy group Families Belong Together called the bid "extreme and unnecessary."
"We cannot allow the U.S. government to collect the DNA of migrant families as a scare tactic," the organization said. "This is an invasion of the privacy of migrants and their family members."
This is extreme and unnecessary. We cannot allow the U.S. government to collect the DNA of migrant families as a scare tactic. This is an invasion of the privacy of migrants and their family members. #ImmigrantsAreWelcomeHere https://t.co/hB21olgfGD
— Families Belong Together (@fams2gether) October 3, 2019
In a statement published earlier this week, Vera Eidelman, a staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project warned further of the broader implications of "forced DNA collection."
"Forced DNA collection raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns and lacks justification, especially when DHS is already using less intrusive identification methods like fingerprinting," Eidelman said.
"Our DNA not only reveals deeply personal information about us, but also information about our relatives," she said. "This means the administration's racist immigration policies will also implicate the rights of family members in other countries and family members here, including American citizens."
"This kind of mass collection alters the purpose of DNA collection from one of criminal investigation to population surveillance, which is contrary to our basic notions of freedom and autonomy," Eidelman warned.
Earlier this year, there had also been questions around the Trump administration's collection of biometric data from migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, which oversees Border Patrol, telling Newsweek in April that testing was done on a "case-by-case basis to combat potential human trafficking."
Included in the biometric data collected were children's fingerprints, iris scans and photographs.
When asked by Newsweek how long border officials and the DHS planned to keep children's biometric data on file, CBP responded that no further comment could be made at this time.
CBP spokesperson Rick Pauza told Newsweek in a separate statement that they were "always evaluating whether other tools, such as DNA testing, could further enhance efforts to protect children."
