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Washington Post: U.S. Considers Expanding FBI Database

HeadlineDec 17, 2003

The Washington Post reports that homeland security officials want to expand the FBI’s criminal databases to include the names of 140,000 illegal immigrants and foreign students. The database known as the National Crime Information Center includes the names of more than 40 million felons, fugitives, missing persons. It is used by more than 80,000 law enforcement agencies.

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