These parameters are codified in study protocols and programmed into secure, web-based data collection systems that record eligibility decisions.
The program, Secure Communities, was initiated in late 2008 and is a centerpiece of the Obama administration's strategy for enforcing immigration laws.
Last spring, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials tried to put the program, Secure Communities, in effect in Cook County without clear consent from the sheriff's office.
The program, Secure Communities, has been assailed by Latino and immigrant groups, who say it swept up many non-criminal immigrants.
Obama also expanded a fingerprint-sharing program, Secure Communities, that alerts immigration agents when potential undocumented immigrants are arrested for local crimes.
The document calls on the company's software developers to make fundamental changes in the balance they strike between adding features to software and making those programs secure, according to several Microsoft executives.
The program, Secure Communities, a collaboration between Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and the Department of Justice, is a source of anxiety and anger for cities, counties and police departments that want to preserve a bright line between local policing and federal immigration enforcement.
In blunt e-mails sent Tuesday to officials and the police in the two states, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the program, Secure Communities, would be activated "in all remaining jurisdictions" this Tuesday.
E-mails released in December from the Department of Homeland Security showed how the immigration agency has been pushing states and cities to send it the fingerprints of all those they arrest as part of a similar program, Secure Communities.
Two contemporary immigration enforcement programs — Secure Communities (S-Comm) and the so-called §287 g) program — reveal how enforcement often goes beyond legislative mandates or runs afoul of other legal principles.
