On a side note: Washoe County Jail (Reno, NV) now fingerprints everyone booked in to the jail and their prints are scanned against the ICE database. ICE even has an office at the jail.
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RENO, Nev.(AP) -- The Washoe County jail in Reno has become the first in Nevada to participate in a federal program allowing jailers to use fingerprints to establish the immigration status and criminal history of inmates.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say the jail began using the agency's "Secure Communities" program this week.
Las Vegas is expected to follow in 2013.
ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley says it differs from an existing program using trained officers to interview inmates, enforce immigration law and authorize deportation proceedings.
The program calls for fingerprints of booked inmates to be automatically checked against FBI criminal history records and Department of Homeland Security immigration files.
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