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Appendix E: A Summary of Panel Activities
Pages 301-303

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... 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.
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From page 302...
... 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.
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From page 303...
... 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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Key Terms

  • security data
  • border patrol
  • security administration
  • child health
  • included visits

  • refugee resettlement
  • human development
  • visa office
  • demographic analysis
  • immigration statistics

  • current population
  • field inspections
  • ins data
  • district offices
  • population division

  • automation activities
  • alternative measures
  • regional demographic
  • immigrant visas
  • patrol sectors

  • social processes
  • regional trends
  • deportable alien
  • immigration researchers
  • population reference

  • alien located
  • population survey
  • multiple data
  • close relatives
  • central office


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