Megan Molteni covers biotechnology, medicine, and genetic privacy for WIRED. DHS officials say the pilot is just a small-scale evaluation to see if the technology can help root out cases of ...

The Department of Homeland Security is considering next steps in DNA testing on the southern border, following a pilot program that concluded last week. DHS ran the DNA pilot program to help ...

Officials with the Department of Homeland Security said the DNA pilot program would be very limited. They told CBS News it would begin next week at the southern border. The rapid DNA test will ...

The Justice Department is proposing to begin collecting DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of immigrants crossing the border, creating an enormous database of asylum-seekers and other migrants ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to expand the collection of DNA from migrants who cross U.S. borders, and to include the information in a massive criminal database operated by ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — A new government watchdog report shows a huge increase in DNA collection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That DNA goes to the FBI, and now they’re getting more ...

Rapid DNA now appears poised for use in global refugee camps, in local immigration offices and at the nation’s border. Even some immigrant rights advocates may be inclined to welcome this ...

Homeland Security officials said Wednesday they will start an “unprecedented” pilot program to test the DNA of families arriving at the U.S. border as soon as next week, calling the measure an ...

The plan is separate from, and much broader than, the quick-fire DNA testing done on families at the US-Mexico border to catch out adults falsely posing as parents. Few details are known about the ...

Federal immigration officers working on the U.S.-Mexico border will start “as early as next week” carrying out rapid DNA tests on immigrants in custody who claim to be related, a Department of ...

A union representative for Customs and Border Patrol officers defended a proposed policy that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA samples from people held at immigration ...