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US immigration data, local police are a bad mix

December 22, 2007

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THE FRAMINGHAM police chief, Steven Carl, claims that increasing local police departments' access to federal immigration databases helps to target criminals (" US extends immigrant database to police ," Page A1, Dec. 12). But extending access to information in immigration databases is a dangerous tool for local law enforcement. (Full article: 186 words)

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