E-Verify, which attempts to screen out unauthorized immigrants by checking employees against federal databases, failed his daughter, a U.S. citizen.
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The company hopes to eventually access additional data from larger state and federal databases, such as the FBI's registry of fingerprints or the driver's-license photos from motor-vehicle departments.
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"We cannot ignore that once again it has taken a tragedy to reveal problems in our vast, varied and numerous federal databases, " said the senior Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
Florida's Republican-appointed secretary of state, Ken Detzner, has previously defended the state's practice, slamming the federal government for restricting access to federal citizenship databases and saying such a constraint was illegal.
On June 15, it announced software that lets state, local and federal employees access government databases from their phones.
We have lots of classified databases in the federal government.
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State DMVs will be receiving federal funds to hand over their databases, with the goal of making each state's data available to all other states.
Under the new rules, every federal agency must negotiate terms under which it would hand over databases to NCTC.
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This would be a perfect time to implement a federal policy of every job seeker vetted through the E-Verify computer databases.
Federal law prohibits the sale of firearms to convicted felons, recently convicted drug users, people adjudicated to be mentally unfit and others, and state and federal agencies are supposed to report the names of these people to national databases.
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