{"id":566892,"date":"2026-03-28T16:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T16:27:13","slug":"u-s-lawmakers-demand-answers-after-canadian-man-says-border-officers-made-him-give-dna-sample-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566892\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. lawmakers demand answers after Canadian man says border officers made him give DNA sample"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home. Following the publication of this story, a spokesperson for CBP provided a written statement that said a Canadian citizen was &#8220;deemed inadmissible and allowed to withdraw his application for admission, and allowed to voluntarily depart the U.S. A DNA sample was collected in accordance with the law \u2013 DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005 \u2013 due to this immigration violation.&#8221; The CBC&#8217;s Emma Loop reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,49625,218324,218325,44,32428],"class_list":["post-566892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-citizen","tag-dna-fingerprint","tag-dna-sample","tag-news","tag-the-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}