Posted on 04/10/2002 11:42:53 AM PDT by 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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Even the same people will behave differently under different institutional incentives. Naturalization and border control are functions with very conflicting incentives, and should be separated.
I was hoping they were going to vote to abolish this inept organization. Instead, they have decided to create two new inept organizations to take its place.
That's the federal government for you.
The way I read it, there will be two agencies instead of one, and a new associate AG. Sounds like government expansion to me.
Carolyn
Can we dream?
Maybe for upper management -- i.e., the headquarters staff (GS-14s and above).
My husband worked for INS, and was so hampered by the Clinton/Gore mandates to let EVERYONE in that he quit. (Of course, now INS is reaping the benefits of dropping any background checks through NCIC.)
Part of the problem is that headquarters so mistreats their people that all the decent, intelligent hard workers quit or transfer to another agency as soon as they can. While he worked for INS, we couldn't afford jack $h!t. The yearly "raises" were often below the cost-of-living increases, the health benefits sucked @$$ and dealing with death threats (literally!) from pi$$ed-off deportees and "upstanding Americans" alike was quite enought to send him screaming to the private sector.
I don't know, Brownie74....... You have to remember that the bunch of INS employees that draw their paychecks and retirement benefits from us honest, hardworking, taxpayers could not find their own arses with a ten man working party, in a room lined with mirrors and someone standing there with a pointer giving them directions. So I have to wonder....just how could they find the exit?
The Air Force spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to turn out the best fighter pilot in the world. They can can shoot down MIGs, sure. But what good is that when, meanwhile back at the INS, some drip with the IQ of a tube sock is stamping the visa application of a suicidal islamic godbot?
If the INS can't show its serving its nation in this war, they should be shut down entirely and immigration put on hold. The risks outweigh the benefits. Moreover, the 1968 immigration reform act has run its course. We have more than enough third worlders here now to make up for any injustices perceived by the hippie generation that wrote it into law.
Until the Government gets serious about treating the INS as part of the national defense of a nation at war, they aren't serious about national defense.
In other words "BOHICA"
Hmmm...sounds like life in the military under Clinton.
This was my reaction too! Why can't we take some other agency, say the BATF, and use them to enforce the immigration laws. Or the FBI? Do we really need to spawn TWO government agencies for every one that goes away? What happened to Bushes promise for smaller government?
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