Report: U.S. vulnerable without master database

[Khephra]

Report: U.S. vulnerable without master database
By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — U.S. border authorities and the FBI are still four years away from developing a master database of fingerprints and criminal histories that would instantly identify dangerous illegal immigrants. The delay leaves a gaping hole in the nation's effort to secure the homeland, Justice Department investigators found.

Federal authorities have been working on the database project for more than a decade. But a combination of funding problems and bad planning has put the system more than two years behind schedule and allowed known criminals to escape detection to commit additional crimes, investigators concluded.

In a report issued Tuesday, the Justice Department's inspector general cited cases in which the absence of a universal database system contributed to the release of two illegal immigrants who had a history of offenses in the USA and went on to claim more victims.

One of the illegals, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, was linked to a string of murders in 1999 in Texas and Kentucky. The second man, Victor Manual Batres, was convicted in the rapes of two Catholic nuns in 2002 in Klamath Falls, Ore. One of the nuns was killed in the attack.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-03-03-crime-db-needed_x.htm

[jamesinca]

1. So I had to send my prints to the DoJ for nothing.

I mean before I could apply for a teaching credential, or my RN license I had to be printed and pay somebody to do this and send them. I wasted my money on something that does not work. If it does work, why can't the other government agencies that are supposedly protecting me from future 9/11 use the system that is already in place by the Fresno CA fingerprinting people?

[Voice_of_Europe]

2. What does it include ?

Master Database sounds like:

- criminal records
- tax / income /wealth
- health, medical history
- drivers licence
- school education
- you name it...


OK...
So they guy who issues your drivers licence checks your education and bank account and finds out about the breast cancer history in your family... and since you still owe them taxes you won't get that licence until you pay...
Cool! All in one mouse click!! Wow!