CBC: He says border officers questioned him, searched his phone and car, took his fingerprints and photo, and eventually denied him entry.
But Larson says the customs officers then told him he had to provide a DNA sample via cheek swab before he could head home.
“I said, ‘No, I consider that a privacy thing. I’m not going to do it,” he said. “Then they explained, ‘Sir, if you don’t give us a DNA sample, we can charge you, and it would be an offence if you’re found guilty,’ something like that. And I said, ‘No, I’m not going to give you the DNA sample.”
Larson says a supervisor then took him to a private room. “He actually read the regulation that he was citing to ask me for DNA. ‘It’s a charge if you’re found guilty, sir. It is a maximum jail sentence of one year,” he said…