Reorganizing the U.S. Immigration Function: Toward a New Framework for Accountability

by Deborah Waller Meyers, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Demetrios G. Papademetriou

At current migration rates, about two-thirds of US population growth in the next 50 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870031384
• ISBN13: 9780870031380
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Length: 64 Pages