DHS canât create vast DNA database to track ICE critics, lawsuit says
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. In a complaint filed in an Illinois district court on Wednesday, protesters arrested at the Broadview ICE facility during "Operation Midway Blitz"âwhen thousands of federal agents flooded Chicagoâdemanded 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 labsâpermanently."
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