My guess is that it's responsible for a significant bump in the rate of growth over the last half-decade, but only for a tiny percentage of the 21M. The reason

My guess is that it's responsible for a significant bump in the rate of growth over the last half-decade, but only for a tiny percentage of the 21M. The reason they mention it is to make conservatives more comfortable with mass DNA collection. The excuse that was used to start mass DNA collection was a serial rapist and murderer cop who himself was excused from having his DNA collected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo