True, but there's no question over the problems conservatives have trying to clean up these agencies. You can't just fire bad people and the left has entrenched themselves in a bunch of them. Energy and Justice come to mind as two of the worst, but CIA and FBI too.
I wish INS had done what it was mandated to do. We would not have the magnitude of today's illegal residents. Just like many bureaucracies, the INS hassled middle-class potential immigrants (people who tried to enter legally) as a means of "feeling good" about doing their jobs. I don't want to take this thread in a immigration debate direction, I just wanted to make a comment about the abject failure ever since Reagan's Amnesty to live up to the enforcement half of the legislation.