New "dual Missions" of the Immigration Enforcement Agencies: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, May 5, 2005

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Page 8 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Page 30 - Service's (INS) mission involves carrying out two primary functions. One is an enforcement function that involves preventing aliens from entering the United States illegally and removing aliens who succeed in doing so. The other is a service function that involves providing services or benefits to facilitate entry, residence, employment, and naturalization of legal immigrants. Several critics have concluded that mission overload...
Page 36 - An organization's activities, core processes, and resources must be aligned to support its mission and help it achieve its goals.
Page 10 - STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AFL-CIO BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON...
Page 3 - Stana is the Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the Government Accountability Office.
Page 28 - S4.01 1 billion request reflects the vital role ICE plays in the Department's overall mission of ensuring the security of the American people and our way of life. A little more than one year ago ICE was formed by combining the investigative and intelligence arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization...
Page 29 - We reported that the experiences of successful transformations and change management initiatives in large public and private organizations suggest that it can take 5 to 7 years or more until such initiatives are fully implemented and cultures are transformed in a sustainable manner.
Page 32 - ... ICE has had to evolve into an organization that integrates the separate and distinct investigative functions of the legacy INS and the US Customs Service. As stated in our October 2004 report: "The integration of INS and Customs investigators into a single investigative program has involved blending two vastly different workforces, each with its own culture, policies, procedures, and mission priorities. Both programs were in agencies with dual missions that prior to the merger had differences...
Page 17 - ... consider the creation of a Department of Immigration and Border Protection. Foreign terrorist travel operations Despite good initiatives by the administration, such as the deployment of US VISIT and a new more aggressive timetable for it implementation, weaknesses in the US border system still exists. Terrorists will continue to successfully enter the United States, because we still lack adequate technologies; integrated information systems that house biometric travel histories of visitors and...
Page 7 - It is requesting $10,214 million for the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement but only $1,711 million for the Bureau of US Citizenship and Immigrant Services.

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