U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services currently requires biometrics, or biological measurements, from anyone over the age of 14 who applies for certain immigration benefits. That information is limited to fingerprints, photographs and signatures, but would be expanded under the proposed policy change to include DNA, eye scans, voice prints and photographs for facial recognition. According to a draft policy obtained by BuzzFeed News, the government would be allowed to request biometrics from immigrants with green cards or work permits at any point until they become a U.S. citizen, in what amounts to continuous vetting. BuzzFeed also reported that the policy would further modify existing procedures so that anyone who has received an immigration benefit, including their U.S. citizen sponsors, would need to provide biometrics unless told otherwise by USCIS. It would also do away with the age limit on the collection of such data, requiring even minors to comply. "They're implementing this as if there's some sort of rampant fraud going through the immigration system, with very little evidence to show for it," Pierce told NPR. She said the new policy could subject millions of people to continued surveillance, and potentially have a chilling effect on family-based applications, because U.S. nationals and legal permanent residents may not be willing to go through invasive biometrics exams to sponsor relatives for a green card. Individuals going through the immigration process also have to pay a fee when providing biometrics, Pierce said, noting that USCIS is struggling financially. The American Civil Liberties Union condemned the draft regulation in a statement issued Tuesday, in which it said the Trump administration is "once again, trying to radically change America's immigration system" by collecting unprecedented personal information and potentially storing it even after immigrants become citizens. "Collecting a massive database of genetic blueprints won't make us safer — it will simply make it easier for the government to surveil and target our communities and to bring us closer to a dystopian nightmare," said Andrea Flores, ACLU's deputy director of immigration policy.
We need to finish that border wall and we are making great progress. Lets keep the criminals out as well as those looking to milk the system. Soon that border will be tighter than tight. The extreme violence in Mexico needs to stay in Mexico.
Dems don't need to worry about this. All of this just applies to immigrants trying to come in legally. So it does not apply to any of their supporters.