Tabla de Contenidos:
  • IMMIGRATION STATISTICS
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Overview and Major Recommendations
  • THE PROBLEM
  • THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL
  • PLAN OF THE REPORT
  • WHAT WE FOUND
  • SUMMARY OF MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS
  • The panel recommends that Congress:
  • 2 Immigration Policy: Past to Present
  • HISTORICAL AND LEGISLATIVE OVERVIEW
  • Before the Twentieth Century: Unrestricted Entry
  • The Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of Restrictions
  • The 1920s: The Flow is Stopped
  • World War II and the Postwar Years: Concerns About Security
  • From 1965 to 1984: Change and Proposed ChangePRESENT LAW
  • Numerical Limitations
  • Refugees and Asylees
  • Exclusion Grounds
  • Temporary Admissions
  • Deportable Classes
  • Powers of Immigration Officers
  • CONCLUSION
  • 3 Needs for Statistics on Immigration
  • DATA REQUIRED BY LAW
  • Aliens Other Than Refugees
  • Refugees
  • DATA NEEDED FOR PUBLIC POLICY
  • DATA NEEDED FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
  • COORDINATING POLICY AND PROGRAM DATA
  • REFERENCES
  • 4 The Immigration and Naturalization Service
  • OVERVIEW: MANDATE AND PERFORMANCE
  • INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE INSCategories of Migrants
  • Permanent Resident Aliens
  • Nonimmigrants
  • Naturalizations
  • Refugees, Parolees, and Asylees
  • Border Crossers
  • Deportable Aliens
  • Records Control: The Alien File
  • OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE INS
  • Inspections
  • Admissions
  • Flows Into the United States Across Land Borders
  • Adjudications and Naturalizations
  • The Refugee, Asylum and Parolee Program
  • Enforcement
  • The Border Patrol
  • Detention and Deportation
  • Investigations
  • Trial Attorneys
  • THE WORK MEASUREMENT REPORT: FORM G-23AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING
  • Early ADP Systems
  • The Master Index System
  • The Nonimmigrant Document Control System
  • Mid-Course Corrections
  • Congressional Investigation
  • The Scope of ADP Planning
  • Interim Systems
  • Recent Developments
  • The Long-Range ADP Plan
  • The Central Index
  • The Nonimmigrant Information System
  • The Immigrant Data Capture System
  • Issues Raised by Automation
  • INS RESOURCES FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
  • The Office of Plans and Analysis
  • The Statistical Analysis Branch
  • Branch PublicationsStatistics on the Resident Alien Population
  • A Statistical Advisory Committee
  • Evaluation of INS Statistics
  • CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 5 Other Government Sources of Information on Immigration
  • BUREAU OF CONSULAR AFFAIRS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
  • Responsibilities and Data
  • Recommendations
  • U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
  • Division of Foreign Labor Certifications
  • Program and Data
  • Recommendation
  • Other DOL Programs
  • BUREAU OF REFUGEE PROGRAMS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE