Immigration advocates have filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of failing to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding its “practices and procedures” pertaining to the DNA collection of immigrants living in the United States, including “people accused of no crime,” the advocates say.

Attorneys for the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, Amica Center for Immigrants Rights and Americans for Immigrant Justice are suing the Department of Homeland Security , alleging that officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been ignoring FOIA requests since last year regarding how DHS “collects, stores and uses DNA samples taken from non-citizens,” according to the groups .

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