Homeland Security to use LexisNexis databases to find illegal aliens

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will use LexisNexis databases to track down fugitive illegal aliens, according to government documents obtained by the Dayton Daily News.

The department’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Unit (ICE) plans to procure access to LexisNexis databases in Miami Twp. to support its Fugitive Operations Support Center, according to a justification document issued Wednesday.

The one-year contract runs through August 2014 at a cost of $1.8 million, the document said.

The center requires data services to find illegal aliens who pose a danger to national security or a risk to public safety, recent illegal entrants, and aliens who are fugitives or otherwise obstruct immigration controls, the document said.

“The LexisNexis databases are mission-critical,” the document said. “They help to leverage emerging technology that shares secure law enforcement data between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, so that ICE can continue to expand its coverage nationwide in a cost-effective manner.”

LexisNexis has about 3,400 employees and contractors in Miami Twp. at its Legal and Professional division, which is the company’s biggest single concentration of employment.

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