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Tracking Mexican terrorists.(police departments using criminal database to deter terroists)(Brief article)
IN 2002, THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE began adding immigration violations--like overstaying a visitor's visa--to the FBI's national crime database, claiming that local police could help deter terrorists. But a new report by the Migration Policy Institute, a research organization on immigration and refugee policies, examined how cops used the database between 2002 and 2004 and found a high rate of errors. Cops got matches in the crime database for almost 21,000 people, but 42 percent of those were "false positives," meaning the federal government couldn't confirm that the person had broken any law. In cases where an immigration law was violated, 71 percent of the people were Mexicans.
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The report found other alarming information, including that cops from Shelby County in Tennessee ran 62 names in the database over the course of three years. Only one person had actually broken a law. There's also been a jump in the number of women immigrants nabbed. In 2002, 37 women ...
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