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... The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science, concerned that budget requests for immigration enforcement had not been well supported in recent years, directed DOJ to enlist the National Academy of Sciences to recommend improved budgeting for immigration enforcement. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS Apprehensions by DHS and decisions about how apprehended individuals are handled largely drive the demand for DOJ's enforcement activities.
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... The accuracy and timeliness of budget estimates -- developed up to 2 years in advance of the fiscal year for which appropriations are made -- are affected by all the usual limitations of any financial forecast and by some limitations specific to estimating resource needs for immigration enforce ment. The complexity of the immigration enforcement system also limits the utility of standard modeling methods for predicting budget demand.
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... Institution ally, as systems are integrated within DHS and if DHS and DOJ develop procedures for sharing case history information, system flows can be constructed and used for analysis by each department, or the two jointly, of the cost-effectiveness of different methods and strategies for immigra tion enforcement. RECOMMENDATION 1: As a step toward collaborative planning and budgeting, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security should establish policy-level procedures to plan and coordinate policy planning and implementation to improve performance of the immigration enforcement system and to gener ate better information to improve estimates of resource require ments for system components.
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... RECOMMENDATION 5: The administration should consider using the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Mod ernization Act of 2010 to establish one or more cross-cutting federal priority objectives related to immigration enforcement and border security; to assign a lead person responsible for these objectives; and to develop strategies, plans, reporting, and budgeting require ments needed to support accomplishment of these objectives. RECOMMENDATION 6: The staff of the congressional appropria tions subcommittees with funding responsibility for the Depart ment of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the ele ments of the courts that are part of the enforcement system should consult with each other regularly as they develop their annual bills.
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