DOJ's 20,000 'likely' noncitizen list looks unreliable

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Justice Department sent California a list of twenty thousand people it calls likely noncitizens who are registered to vote.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLos Angeles County officials say their first look shows the list is unreliable.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOnly seven thousand thirty-five of those names even had Los Angeles County addresses, and some were duplicates.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's a list of twenty thousand that is really a list of a few thousand, stated twice.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorSome of the people on it had indicated in records that they were born in the United States.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have covered border offices in forty countries, and that is a hard thing to get wrong.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Justice Department's acting deputy attorney general said, quote, we're not perfect. Honestly, I've heard that from every group project I've ever been in.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe number was one hundred ninety thousand in July.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBy last week it was twenty thousand, delivered on a thumb drive with a forty-eight-hour deadline. That's the most dramatic weight loss since my cousin's wedding.

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    Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA thumb drive.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYes! The nation's most sensitive data, next to my clips folder.