DHS is planning to roll out a new sweeping surveillance program that would require anyone filing or associated with filing for an immigration benefit request to submit biometric data on themselves. Biometric data includes fingerprints, facial images, iris scans, voiceprints, and even DNA samples. This new requirement has no age limit.

In practice, this will mean that immigration benefits holders, family members, and sponsors will face ongoing surveillance that could potentially last for years, with the government empowered to share people’s data with state and local agencies.

This is a historic expansion of government surveillance in the American immigration system, with potentially far-reaching consequences for privacy and government oversight.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)