President Clinton recently signed the Terrorism Prevention Act into law. The bill identified how important the Tracking Center has become and proposed that the Center become the repository for an alien tracking system. Even before these additional responsibilities. the LESC staff in Vermont had demonstrated that the Center is a valuable asset and essential to our national immigration policy. The Center provides local. State. and Federal law enforcement agencies with 24hour access to data on criminal aliens. By identifying these aliens. LESC allows law enforcement agencies to expedite deportation proceedings against them. The Center was authorized in the 1994 crime bill. The first year of operations has been impressive as the 24hour team identified over 10.000 criminal aliens.
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