Utility of Federal Immigration Database Debated
"A federal database system the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch wants to use in its plan to keep out illegal immigrants is not capable of providing information about who's in the country illegally, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official said in court documents.
The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Program does not show whether a person is deportable, SAVE program chief John Roessler said in a deposition for the legal fight over whether Farmers Branch can check the immigration status of renters."
ANABELLE GARAY for the Associated Press.