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Trump Administration Moves to Capture and Test DNA of All Migrants in Custody and Treat Them...
...‘More Like Criminals’In a major change from prior administrations President Donald Trump’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials want to extract and test the DNA of every single undocumented person in their custody, regardless of age. Civil rights organizations often oppose the capture of DNA for those who have not been charged or convicted of a crime.
CBP and possibly ICE could spend at minimum 20,000 hours each year to capture and test the DNA of undocumented immigrants in their custody.
A Dept. of Homeland Security official tells Buzzfeed News, which first reported the story, that DHS “is working closely with the Department of Justice on a path forward for DNA collection.”
CBP and possibly ICE could spend at minimum 20,000 hours each year to capture and test the DNA of undocumented immigrants in their custody.
A Dept. of Homeland Security official tells Buzzfeed News, which first reported the story, that DHS “is working closely with the Department of Justice on a path forward for DNA collection.”
[link:https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2019/08/trump-administration-moves-to-capture-and-test-dna-of-all-migrants-in-custody-and-treat-them-more-like-criminals/|]
Next step...
Just in a form more fitting to the 21st Century...
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https://time.com/5662723/adolf-border-patrol-dog/
A now-deleted tweet by the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Buffalo sector for International Dog Day on Monday named Adolf, along with other working dogs Delta, Doris and Pistol. A few people on Twitter immediately responded in shock that the dog shared a name with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
The revelation comes amid scrutiny of immigration enforcement officials’ behavior on social media. CBP launched an investigation in July after ProPublica reported on a secret Facebook group made up of 9,500 immigration officials who shared derogatory content about immigrants and Latino members of Congress.
CBP Buffalo spokesperson Michael Niezgoda confirms that the dog’s name is Adolf. The Shepherd dog was purchased from the Netherlands by the CBP Canine Center in El Paso, Texas in July 2013 and has become one of the top dogs in the sector for his drug seizures, Niezgoda tells TIME.
“However people think, that’s their own thoughts, but Adolf is a common name,” Niezgoda says.
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of course they do
would not be surprised if they name one Blondi
BLONDI
Blondi (1941 – 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the Führerbunker located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945.
Hitler was very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed in the bunker. According to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection was not shared by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, who preferred her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus and Stasi.
Blondi played a role in Nazi propaganda by portraying Hitler as an animal lover. Dogs like Blondi were coveted as "germanische Urhunde", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during the Nazi era. On 29 April 1945, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, who died as a result.
A now-deleted tweet by the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Buffalo sector for International Dog Day on Monday named Adolf, along with other working dogs Delta, Doris and Pistol. A few people on Twitter immediately responded in shock that the dog shared a name with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
The revelation comes amid scrutiny of immigration enforcement officials’ behavior on social media. CBP launched an investigation in July after ProPublica reported on a secret Facebook group made up of 9,500 immigration officials who shared derogatory content about immigrants and Latino members of Congress.
CBP Buffalo spokesperson Michael Niezgoda confirms that the dog’s name is Adolf. The Shepherd dog was purchased from the Netherlands by the CBP Canine Center in El Paso, Texas in July 2013 and has become one of the top dogs in the sector for his drug seizures, Niezgoda tells TIME.
“However people think, that’s their own thoughts, but Adolf is a common name,” Niezgoda says.
snip
of course they do
would not be surprised if they name one Blondi
BLONDI
Blondi (1941 – 29 April 1945) was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the Führerbunker located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945.
Hitler was very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed in the bunker. According to Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge, this affection was not shared by Eva Braun, Hitler's companion, who preferred her two Scottish Terrier dogs named Negus and Stasi.
Blondi played a role in Nazi propaganda by portraying Hitler as an animal lover. Dogs like Blondi were coveted as "germanische Urhunde", being close to the wolf, and became very fashionable during the Nazi era. On 29 April 1945, Hitler expressed doubts about the cyanide capsules he had received through Heinrich Himmler's SS. To verify the capsules' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on Blondi, who died as a result.
I do expect expect humans to be chipped soon starting with those turned away at the border. Think of all the time DNA testing will save in sorting undesirables.
