BREAKING🚨 ICE took GENETIC SAMPLES of roughly 920,000 people last year. 133,000 of them were from children as YOUNG AS 4 — logging every single one of those genetic profiles into the FBI's CRIMINAL DATABASE. The numbers also include hundreds of samples from elderly people, the oldest known is 96. The samples go into CODIS, the FBI's national criminal DNA system that police departments across the country search when hunting for suspects. As of December, more than 3.3 million entries in that database were indexed as "detainee" profiles. Most people in ICE custody have no criminal conviction. Being in the country without papers is a civil violation, not a crime. "There's no probable cause to commit a crime," said Ric Simmons, a law professor at Ohio State who studies search and seizure. "There's no court case that authorizes this kind of search for any kind of civil violation like this." On the children, he said he had never heard of anything like it. Missy Owen, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, called what the government has built "the birth of a genetic panopticon," and said the most intimate data a person has is being dumped into a permanent database "on the off chance that you might commit a crime years from now." Even if a court eventually rules the swabs illegal, Simmons said, the samples can still be used against people in deportation proceedings. Detainees cannot sue the officers who took them. The swabbing has reached people who were never in immigration custody at all. In late January in Northeast Minneapolis, a man filming ICE agents from the side of the road was tackled by a masked officer, held about three hours, and swabbed with what looked like a Q-tip before his release. Doctors later found THREE BROKEN RIBS. Contracting documents published Monday show ICE has spent an additional $10.1 million on rapid DNA tests and equipment for use during enforcement operations. The agency did not respond to repeated requests for comment. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.