This year, the Trump administration has pursued a number of alternative methods to cut immigration, ranging from low-tech, unlikely, and cruel to high-tech, ethically terrifying, and cruel
A U.S. Border Patrol agent loads detained migrants into a van at the border of the United States and Mexico on March 31, 2019 in El Paso, Texas.
DHS officials told reporters Wednesday that the plan is allowed under the DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005, and that they were ending immigrants’ 2010 exemption from the law created by Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Since 2010, immigrants who were not detained on criminal charges and people awaiting deportation have not been required to consent to DNA swabs.
The rule change — initially reported as a possibility by BuzzFeed News in August — emerged from a pilot Immigration and Customs Enforcement program from earlier this year in which ICE took voluntary DNA tests of migrants they believed to be faking familial claims. In the two operations, the fraudulent rate was 19 percent and 15 percent. These low success rates for the program show the massive privacy violation inherent in the plan.
This year, as the president’s border wall seems to be beyond the reality of his first term, the Trump administration has pursued a number of alternative methods to cut immigration, ranging from low-tech, unlikely, and cruel to high-tech, ethically terrifying, and cruel and from cutting the refugee cap to its lowest-ever number to firing DHS officials who won’t do his bidding.
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