The BICE is using access to consumer databases from Latin American countries to find and deport illegal aliens in the U.S., the AP reports. The agency has a contract with Choicepoint Inc. "A suburban Atlanta company, ChoicePoint Inc., collects the information abroad and sells it to U.S. government officials in three dozen agencies, including federal immigration investigators who've used it to arrest illegal immigrants." AP reporter Jim Krane writes that, "U.S. officials consider the foreign data a thread in a security blanket that lets law enforcers and the travel industry peer into the backgrounds of people flowing into the United States. The information can also be used with other data-mining tools to identify potential terrorists, company and government officials say."