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Appendix
A SUMMARY OF PANEL ACTIVITIES
In addition to the regular panel meetings, members and staff participated
in a variety of activities structured to permit a more intensive
examination of specific issues. These activities are described in more
detail below.
WORKSHOP ON ESTIMATING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
A workshop was organized to review methodological approaches to
estimating the growth and characteristics of the illegal alien population
in the United States and explore suggestions for new research.
Participants included representatives from the Census Bureau, the
Department of Labor, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the
Social Security Administration, the National Research Council, the United
Nations, and other researchers.
Major topics included:
o Methods of estimating the number of illegal aliens included in
censuses and surveys;
o Analysis of data from INS form I-213, Record of Deportable Alien
Located;
o Estimating emigration from Mexico by collecting data in Mexico on
the place of residence of close relatives;
o Matching administrative records, such as records from the Social
Security Administration and the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey;
0 A survey of recently admitted immigrants to determine the extent
of previous illegal residence;
o Ethnographic studies of the social processes related to legal and
illegal migration;
o Analysis of regional trends in age-specific death rates and
comparison of alternative measures of aggregate income; and
o Demographic analysis of Mexican census data.
Participants did not believe it likely that major advances could be
made in the accuracy or detail of the estimates, regardless of the effort
devoted to the task. The most promising techniques appeared to be those
that have already been used with varying degrees of success.
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Periodically updating the empirical estimates, even if the range of
plausible estimates were to be fairly broad, was considered to be
important for developing immigration policy.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND RELATED DATA: RESEARCH RESOURCES ON IMMIGRATION
The technical workshop was sponsored jointly by the Panel on Immigration
Statistics and the Center for Population Research, National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development, and attended by persons engaged in
research on immigration. The objective of the workshop was to bring
together providers and users of social security data for a discussion of
the application of social security data to immigration research.
A major theme involved the need to improve accessibility of these
data to the research community. The group proposed that strategies for
increasing the availability of social security data be the subject of a
future meeting to be convened by the Center for Population Research.
A SYMPOSIUM ON IMMIGRATION STATISTICS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Members of the panel and staff organized and participated in a session on
immigration statistics at the annual meeting of the Population
Association- of America in May 1984. Papers were presented on: (13 INS
Data Sources: Their Strengths and Shortcomings; (2) The Data Collection
and Research Program of the Office of Refugee Resettlement;
(3) Integration of Multiple Data Sources in Immigrant Studies; and
(4) Assessing Stocks and Flows of Migrants.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Numerous visits were made to selected field offices of the INS in order
to observe the collection and use of statistics in INS activities. These
included visits to the Burlington Regional Office and district offices in
New York, Buffalo, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, and
San Diego. Other activities included visits to Border Patrol sectors,
ports of entry and detention centers, a briefing on INS automation
activities, and a tour of the facilities of the contractor processing
immigrant visas and adjustment of status forms. Within the central
office in Washington meetings were held with INS officials in the
following sections: adjudications, inspections, field inspections,
refugee and parolee, enforcement, Border Patrol, detention and -
deportation, investigations, intelligence, legal counsel, information
systems, plans and analysis, statistics, policy directives, project
inform, and evaluation.
Meetings were held with officials of the Department of Labor; the
visa office of the State Department; the Office of Refugee Resettlement
in the Department of Health and Human Services; the Center for Population
Research in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development;
the U.N. Statistical Office and Population Division; the Transportation
Service Center in the Department of Transportation; the Congressional
Research Service in the Library of Congress; the U.S. Consulate in
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Toronto, Ontario; and with the staffs of the judiciary committees of both
the House and Senate.
Members of the staff provided public information about the panel's
work in a variety of forums. These included the presentation of a paper
at the 1984 Conference on Asia-Pacific Immigration to the United States,
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; and presentations to the Association
of Federal Economists, the Washington Area Group of Immigration
Researchers, the Population Reference Bureau, and the Southern Regional
Demographic Group.
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