Immigration, by the budgets
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- February
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People still refer to the immigration bureaucracy as “INS,” even five years after it was reorganized within the Department of Homeland Security. There are a lot more initials to remember nowadays, and the budgets have grown dramatically. Here is a small chart that from the Migration Policy Institute that boils it all down visually:
The bulk of the spending is for Customs and Border Protection, and next is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which incorporated functions of U.S. Customs Service), then U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The US-VISIT program aims to track temporary visitors in the United States through fingerprinting.
I have not yet read all 97 pages of the report, which critiques many DHS initiatives as ineffective, but I plan to highlight portions of the material in future posts. The PDF can be downloaded here and there are detailed stories in The San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.
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on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 5:15 pm by Leah Rae.
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