Canada is using ancestry DNA websites to help it deport people

spacemonkeyg78:

ashermajestywishes:

spacemonkeyg78:

ashermajestywishes:

angstbotfic:

allthecanadianpolitics:

In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport failed refugee claimants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been collecting DNA from migrants and using ancestry websites to find and contact their distant relatives and establish their nationality.

“I think it is a matter of public interest that border service agencies like the CBSA are able to obtain access to DNA results from sites like Familytreedna.com and Ancestry.com,” said Subodh Bharati, a lawyer who is representing a man who says he’s Liberian, but who the government is now trying to prove is actually Nigerian. “There are clear privacy concerns. How is the CBSA able to access this information and what measures are being put in place to ensure this information remains confidential?”

Bharati, who is representing his client through CLASP, the legal aid clinic at Osgoode Hall Law School, said he is aware of at least two individuals who used Familytreedna.com, one in the UK, who have been contacted by the CBSA seeking to deport someone from Canada.

“Individuals using these sites to look at their family tree should be aware that their confidential information is being made available to the government and that border agents may contact them to help facilitate the deportation of migrants,” he said.

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holy shit, but also … the science on this is nowhere near good enough to support this use, even if it wasn’t horrible.

I’ve been saying not to use these sites for the longest. The science is still new and the professional ethics are non-existent.

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org is Mormon owned and no offense to the cult I grew up in (actually, offense is meant) they are a bigoted bunch of cultists who already got involved with politics enough to be threatened with removal of tax exempt status for their fight against equality so I can see them being 100% friendly with the gestapo arms of the governments if they’re told it will remove black and brown people from their communities. Why people trusted their DNA and gross amounts of information about themselves and every member of their families to these cults is beyond me.

This explains a lot. I would not give that lot my information. These are the people who thought black people were cursed until the 70s. Don’t give these guys your information guys.

They also have continues their evangelical crusade to colonize the “savages” here and abroad. Trusting these people with your info is like handing over all your secrets and your family’s secrets to the devil.

aka14kgold:

eshusplayground:

brehaaorgana:

nerdyqueerandjewish:

nerdyqueerandjewish:

Someone saying that jewish people never have dealt with immigration problems because we came from “white countries” holy shit

I’m like hi please learn more about Jewish history before you try to talk about Jewishness and it’s relationship to whiteness and race because if you don’t know something like this you definitely don’t know enough sorry!!

This is just SPECTACULARLY ignorant of the history of immigration to the US in general. But what’s most galling is that while immigration issues for certain white ethnic groups (i.e. mostly Catholic whites – Italians, Irish, Poles) shifted/improved over time, the St Louis ship FULL of 937 Jewish refugees was turned away in 1939.

At this point, I wonder if it’s a willful ignorance, and I need some ideas because I have no idea how to deal with that.

Honestly, with those people, I usually revert to the St. Louis example, and the statistics of its passengers upon returning to Europe. Occasionally I’ll invoke my rabbi’s Kol Nidre drash from a couple years back – on Syria and refugees – which began with the congregation raising hands based on periods of their families’ immigration (a tiny contingent for 1925-1990).

But at a certain point, I stop with all that, note that the KKK and other popular white supremacist groups think that (European, presumably) Jews are ‘infiltrating’ and ‘corrupting’ the white race, and remind them that blood quantum took over religious practice as the fundamental crime of Jews a long time ago. And occasionally, depending on the circumstances, I’ll remind them that my stereotypical Ashkie self was screamed at by the nephew of the local police chief in 1980-something for saying I was white.

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch:

the-cats-pajamboree:

gahdamnpunk:

She said “Bet!” 😂😂

my favorite thing was this guy said all this and not once did the word “native americans” crossed his mind

What white people did when they illegally entered the Americas is exactly what he’s claiming Dreamers are doing. Holy short-sighted irony.

A stranger who doesn’t speak English breaks into your home when there was no lock on the door at all. He does your chores and makes very good pizza and bagels so you let him stay. Decades pass and every door and window on the house gets padlocked so entering becomes difficult. Yet a new stranger gets in anyway and the grandkids of the first stranger are both angry that he broke in and want him to do all their chores anyway.

EDIT: Whelp