The findings, based on responses from over 9,300 of the 577,000 CBP and ICE agents surveyed, cited several reasons including increased workload, inconsistent border policies, irrelevant task assignments, resource insufficiency, and excessive overtime.
As the authors write, the advancement conjures a "complex ethical conundrum" because the genomic information captured "comes from individuals mostly unaware of the technology use and oblivious to the fact that their genetic information has been inadvertently obtained."