The US Border Patrol has begun fingerprinting some migrant children 14 and younger because of increased concern about fraud and the trafficking of children, a senior agency official said. The agency ...

HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. border authorities say they’ve started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 years old and younger, including fingerprints, despite privacy concerns and ...

Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, this week introduced two bills aimed at stemming the flow of migrants into the United States, including one that calls for fingerprinting children ...

ELLISVILLE, Miss. (WDAM) - A new scanning system donated to the Jones County Sheriff’s Department should allow for a quick and assured children’s identification system. JCSD received a digital ...

In the past, police would collect fingerprints of children to help identify them if they were lost or abducted. The process was time consuming and often officers and parents were smeared with ink ...