[kevao]

It would be better to have a database of illegal alien names.

Doesn't ICE at least keep track of the names of those who have been "caught and released" into the general population?

[plain talk]

“Doesn’t ICE at least keep track of the names of those who have been “caught and released” into the general population?”

I’m sure they have that ... but I was wondering whether they have a database of a some of the known legacy illegal aliens that have been here for years — a subset of the the 11M, 30M or whatever number it is.

[eartick]

Doesn't ICE at least keep track of the names of those who have been "caught and released" into the general population?

Not ICE but DHS are the keeper of the data, mostly. Combining all of these will give us a good count of illegals in country that have been caught. Now for the 90% that slip through the net, extrapolate.