Immigration Officers working in 24 hour ports-of-entry only had access to the main immigration database via telephone during office hours Monday to Friday.

If we get a hit, I want air passenger manifests and immigration databases scanned for names he's known to have used--Darya, you'll supply those?

Mr. Levy later reshaped his plan, setting up an arrangement in which federal immigration officials dedicated extra officers to Suffolk County and gave Suffolk fast access to immigration databases.

Under Secure Communities, the FBI automatically sends the fingerprints to ICE to check against its immigration databases.

If the person has been previously encountered and fingerprinted by an immigration official and there is a digitized record, then the immigration database will register a "match."

Data on gang suspects is compared against immigration databases to determine whether these individuals are subject to ICE's federal immigration authorities.

It would need to check the legal status of noncitizens against a national immigration database, to save copies of any documents shown and to store a digital image of the face of each applicant.

Field officers receive five weeks of training with immigration agents, including how to tap into immigration databases and process aliens for deportation proceedings.

Included in the plan are initiatives to improve the biometric features of Permanent Resident Cards in both countries, sharing Advanced Passenger Information, and creating compatible immigration databases.