Democratic lawmakers say some states that don't want to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be unintentionally allowing the agency access to residents' driver and criminal records through a law-enforcement data network.

A group of 40 congressional Democrats, led by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), sent letters to 19 Democratic governors on Wednesday warning them of an "information gap" that has allowed ICE to collect driver's license and registration information from the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.

Also known as Nlets, the network, operated by private nonprofit the International Justice & Public Safety Network, links law-enforcement systems from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and roughly 18,000 federal, state

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