Canada’s border enforcement agency appears to be using genetic tests and DNA ancestry sites to determine country of origin for would-be deportees.
Geneticists in Canada are raising concerns about the apparent use of direct-to-consumer genetic tests and ancestry websites by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to help determine the country of origin for people it wants to deport.
‘It’s quite disturbing because I don’t see a strong scientific foundation for that kind of use of genetic tests,’ Yann Joly, director of research at McGill University’s Centre for Genetics and Policy, tells Chemistry World. ‘It doesn’t provide any new evidence that they couldn’t get in another way.’ Read more in Chemistry World.