what used to be INS I guess is ICE today, I-C-E. That group has a database that puts in it illegals who have skipped bail, who have not come to court, who have been convicted of crimes and absconded, who are convicted of unrelated crimes to immigration and been ordered deported. They have it in there but it does not go into the NCIC, National Crime Information Center, which is what police officers access. If they stop you on the street they’ll run your name in NCIC and they’ll have a warrant out for you, American citizen, bank president, member of Congress; they’ll put you in the slammer, but the systems they are accessing do not have people who are here illegally, who’ve committed crimes, who have court orders against them.
That really makes no sense to me, so we’ve set up this system – and I think it will have the potential to be effective – that we can access this separate system that most law officers in America don’t even know exists and certainly don’t know how to exercise it when they are out on the road and they make a stop. And I think that will be a big help for us, and we’ll have a good report on that, how that can work. But I would say, to me it should be in NCIC. All those warrants for serious offenses ought to be in this system that’s routinely accessed, because most people – most officers are going to hesitate to run two systems now when they are out on the highway trying to make a stop. ( A GREAT READ!}
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