Immigration statistics: a story of neglect

IMMIGRATION STATISTICS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Overview and Major Recommendations -- THE PROBLEM -- THE CHARGE TO THE PANEL -- PLAN OF THE REPORT -- WHAT WE FOUND -- SUMMARY OF MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS -- The panel recommends that Congress: -- 2 Immigration Policy: Past to Present -- HISTORICAL AND LEGISLATIVE OVERVIEW -- Before the Twentieth Century: Unrestricted Entry -- The Early Twentieth Century: The Beginning of Restrictions -- The 1920s: The Flow is Stopped -- World War II and the Postwar Years: Concerns About Security -- From 1965 to 1984: Change and Proposed Change -- PRESENT LAW -- Numerical Limitations -- Refugees and Asylees -- Exclusion Grounds -- Temporary Admissions -- Deportable Classes -- Powers of Immigration Officers -- CONCLUSION -- 3 Needs for Statistics on Immigration -- DATA REQUIRED BY LAW -- Aliens Other Than Refugees -- Refugees -- DATA NEEDED FOR PUBLIC POLICY -- DATA NEEDED FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT -- COORDINATING POLICY AND PROGRAM DATA -- REFERENCES -- 4 The Immigration and Naturalization Service -- OVERVIEW: MANDATE AND PERFORMANCE -- INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THE INS -- Categories of Migrants -- Permanent Resident Aliens -- Nonimmigrants -- Naturalizations -- Refugees, Parolees, and Asylees -- Border Crossers -- Deportable Aliens -- Records Control: The Alien File -- OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE INS -- Inspections -- Admissions -- Flows Into the United States Across Land Borders -- Adjudications and Naturalizations -- The Refugee, Asylum and Parolee Program -- Enforcement -- The Border Patrol -- Detention and Deportation -- Investigations -- Trial Attorneys -- THE WORK MEASUREMENT REPORT: FORM G-23 -- AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING -- Early ADP Systems -- The Master Index System -- The Nonimmigrant Document Control System -- Mid-Course Corrections -- Congressional Investigation.