Reorganizing the U.S. immigration function

toward a new framework for accountability

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Reorganizing the U.S. immigration function

toward a new framework for accountability

At current migration rates, about two-thirds of U.S. population growth in the next fifty years will be attributable to immigrants, their children, and their grandchildren. Despite the issue's importance, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has relatively low stature, and no formal structure exists within the Executive Branch for coherent immigration policy development. This is especially problematic because the immigration function cuts across numerous critical policy issues ranging from social security, welfare, and human resources to education, economic competitiveness, law enforcement, and foreign policy. Frustration with INS performance has been mounting for a decade, as have charges that the system is incoherent, overburdened, poorly run, and accountable to no one. Some in Congress now propose dismantling the agency and distributing its functions to other agencies. The authors of this book argue that, among the several reform proposals that have been proffered, theirs is the only effort to redesign the system in light of its fundamental objectives. Their proposal, calling for a new, high-level agency to direct and consolidate the nation's immigration system, also seeks to establish a clear distinction between enforcement and services and to improve the delivery of all programs, including the trouble-plagued services. -- Amazon.com.

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English
Pages
63

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Washington, D.C
Series
International Migration Policy Program ;, 7, International Migration Policy Program (Series) ;, 7.
Other Titles
Reorganizing the United States immigration function

Classifications

Library of Congress
JV6483 .P366 1998, JV6483.P366 1998

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Pagination
viii, 63 p. :
Number of pages
63

Edition Identifiers

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OL395073M
Internet Archive
reorganizingusim0000papa
ISBN 10
0870031384
LCCN
98073642
OCLC/WorldCat
39904009
Goodreads
1695499

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OL516141W

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