ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Dhruv MehrotraSecurityAug 3, 2026 6:00 AMICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young ChildrenInternal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him.According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office. There, one deportation officer after another approached him with the same demand.Open your mouth.One officer tried to take his fingerprints and swab the inside of his cheek for DNA.
- ▪Dhruv MehrotraSecurityAug 3, 2026 6:00 AMICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young ChildrenInternal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration.
- ▪Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him.According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office.
- ▪There, one deportation officer after another approached him with the same demand.Open your mouth.One officer tried to take his fingerprints and swab the inside of his cheek for DNA.
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Dhruv MehrotraSecurityAug 3, 2026 6:00 AMICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young ChildrenInternal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.PHOTO-ILLUSTRATION: WIRED STAFF; GETTY IMAGESCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyOn March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation check-in. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were waiting to arrest him.According to a criminal complaint reviewed by WIRED, officers drove Moreno-Mendez to a nearby ICE field office.
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