House panel votes to abolish INS

MSNBC ^ | 4/10/02

[areafiftyone]

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday decided not to wait for the Bush administration to fix the embattled Immigration and Naturalization Service, voting to abolish the beleaguered service and create two new agencies to handle enforcement and immigration services.

THE COMMITTEE voted 32-2 to send the full House a bill offered by the chairman, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, to break up the INS into two separate agencies under the Justice Department.

Plans pushed by the Bush administration would have a similar effect, but would separate the enforcement and immigration functions without doing away with the INS.

“The current INS administrative plan keeps the INS intact as a consolidated agency when what needs to be created are two new bureaus in the Justice Department,” Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said. “The INS has reorganized itself numerous times in the past two decades, but the agency is still in a deep quagmire. I don’t think any additional attempt at internal reorganizing can pull the INS out of this morass in which it finds itself.”

Under Sensenbrenner’s plan, the bureaus would report to a new associate attorney general for immigration affairs.

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[Howie66]

When the order comes down, do you think that the INS employees will be able to find their way out of the building?

[areafiftyone]

I apologize for the way the post came out. I think there is somehting wrong with my puter at work. But at least the link works!

[MoscowMike]

Howdy

Thanks, great news. The disgusting set of priorities of the clinton gore reimagining of our government produce human suffering and terrorist attacks, and the INS is the first of many destroyed agencies that must be torn apart and remade.

Call your congress delegations, Freepers, support the reformulation of the INS, and push to have the Interior department, up to its eyeballs in criminals abusing science to confiscate and cordon off millions of acres of private and public land under the ESA, broken and redicated to serving We the People, next.

One vile, tyrranical, liberalized agency down, many to go, if this effort bears fruit.

[Cold Heat]

I doubt it! They can't find their butts with both hands!

[Overtaxed]

Great...2 bureaus instead of 1.

[otterpond]

“The current INS administrative plan keeps the INS intact as a consolidated agency when what needs to be created are two new bureaus in the Justice Department,”

Why have one when you can have two? Big-spending Congress marches on.

Meanwhile, even though it's not the President's plan, he will sign it while stating that although it has some flaws, it is still better than the current situation.....

[MadelineZapeezda]

I nominate Pat Buchanan to head them BOTH!

[Woodstock]

Is this like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?

[areafiftyone]

I nominate Pat Buchanan to head them BOTH!

LOL - I agree with the nomination. He would straighten out the INS in less than a year.

[henderson field]

The INS needs to be overhauled from top to bottom. They are the agency of immigrants, by immigrants and for immigrants. They cannot be objective. They enabled formation of the mafia. Imagine the cars, yachts and country club memberships enjoyed by INS staffers. Fire everyone and start new.

[Texas_Longhorn]

Anyone think this is going to help? Anyone think this will become law?

[Brownie74]

When the order comes down, do you think that the INS employees will be able to find their way out of the building?

Yeah, the exit from the building is right next to the break room!!

[cake_crumb]

How is the INS being broken into two bureaus, exactly? Will one be affiliated with the US paramilitary, because immigration and national security are so interconnected? What are the guidlines for effeciency in these two brand new bureaus? Will US citizens benefit via better government protection, or is this another band-aid like the scheme to federalize airport security? Most importantly, WHY DOES SHEILA JACKSON LEE like the plan?

[Mixer]

How will splitting these incompetent people into two different groups help? Or are they planning a complete re-org of the employees as well?

[Tauzero]

"Great...2 bureaus instead of 1."

This is a good thing. In its naturalization role, the INS wants more immigration, both legal and illegal. More bodies and more people to keep track of mean more power and money for the INS bureacratic fiefdoms.

Border control and naturalization should be separated.

[TomGuy]

Trouble is, they will probably hire the x-INS personnel to fill the positions at the 2 new agencies. So the accomplishment will be negligible. The incompetent personnel will just end up being transferred from the old INS to one of the 2 new INS's = MOTS (more of the same).

[Tauzero]

"Anyone think this is going to help?"

Yes.