Report: ICE added 1 million people's DNA to federal database
An ICE officer stands outside a home in south Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation on Dec. 4.
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New research estimates U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement added DNA from nearly 1 million people to the nation's criminal DNA database in the last year alone.
That's despite immigration offenses typically being civil offenses, not criminal ones.
Dhruv Mehrotra is an investigative data journalist who covered this nationwide story for WIRED. He spoke with MPR News host Clay Masters about his reporting.
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