Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement A Path to Better Performance (2011) / Chapter Skim
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ENFORCEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES: OVERVIEW Immigration enforcement is carried out by a complex legal and administrative system, operating under frequently changing legislative mandates and policy guidance, with authority and funding spread across several agencies in two executive departments, DOJ and the U.S. Depart ment of Homeland Security (DHS)
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DOJ retained responsibility for civil and criminal proceedings regarding the legal status of people apprehended and possibly subject to removal from the United States. Five major DOJ components are responsible for enforcement activities: 1.
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Therefore, the appropriations committees wanted to determine whether better methods can be found to annually estimate and justify the resources needed by DOJ, thereby minimizing the need for subsequent adjustments. The congressional complaint can be found in language of the report accompanying DOJ's fiscal 2009 appropriations that mandated this study (110th Congress; Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, House Report 110-919, Department of Justice, Title II)
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, we undertook to develop an alternative approach to estimating DOJ resource requirements under varied assumptions about how policy and practice affect apprehension volumes and patterns, in different places and over time. This approach included possible ways that DOJ and DHS could work together to improve their capacity to achieve their stated policy objectives, thereby using budgeted resources in more cost-effec tive ways.
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Moreover, the measure of improvement in budgeting approach is not simply whether estimates included in bud get requests prove sufficient to support planned and proposed operations although that is always a primary concern of budgeters and appropriators. Budgeting is also a process designed to ensure that resources are provided and allocated in the ways most supportive of the public mission and policy objectives.
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In each case, they observed operations at the border and elsewhere in the system and talked at length with officials and staff of the federal agencies, as well as a variety of local officials and others, including people in local government and those who work with illegal immigrants during the enforcement process. In addition, committee members and staff reviewed research and the latest statistics on patterns of illegal immigration.
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We have concluded that a new budgeting approach is needed. This new approach needs to recognize the complexity, dynamism, and adaptability of the enforcement system; properly relate the enforcement system's resource requirements to policy objectives and desired outcomes; and allow policy makers and planners in both departments to jointly assess how alterna tive resource levels and uses may improve resource use and ultimately contribute to better achievement of the aims of policy makers.
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12 BUDGETING FOR IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT to improve data and analysis, to produce new information, to make bet ter use of information and analysis for planning and budgeting, and to improve communication and coordination among those who share responsibility for providing resources and setting policies to improve the effectiveness of the U.S. immigration enforcement system.
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