WASHINGTON (CN) — The Trump administration has spent tens of millions of dollars building out the ability of immigration enforcement agents to collect DNA samples from detainees, a program that has so far collected genetic records from millions of people and deposited them in a federal criminal database.
But experts say the effort, which represents legal territory so far uncharted by the courts, raises serious constitutional questions — and some worry it could serve as a preview to a “genetic panopticon” broadening government surveillance powers.
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