
Eleven U.S. senators, including five running to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020, say they oppose a proposal by the Trump administration to restore authority to the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA samples from migrants that have been detained after entering the U.S. In their Oct. 30 letter to Attorney General Robert Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, the senators charge that “the real rationale for this new policy appears to be the Trump…