Notices of intent to fine employers
for immigration violations:
Year/ Notices 1992: 1,461
1993: 1,302
1994: 1,063
1995: 1,056
1996: 1,019
1997: 865
1998: 1,023 2000: 178
2001: 100
2002: 53
2003: 162
2004: 3
When Customs and Immigration merged into ICE, the legacy Customs investigators were GS-13's (pay level) while the INS Investigators were GS-11's.
Since the the Feds could not demote the GS-13's, the GS-11's got promoted to GS-13's.
The INS Supervisors the were GS-12, GS-13 and GS-14 got promoted to GS-14, and GS-15 to match the Customs Supervisors.
This cost billions which ICE had to borrow against it's future budgets to get.
It will be a few years before ICE has any real money for investigation other they terrorist stuff.