Immigration Statistics: A Story of Neglect

摘要

The report specifies data needs for immigration policy, for immigration law, and for other purposes and recommends practical steps that must be taken to place future debate about immigration on a solid base of statistical information. It takes a broad view of immigration problems and considers the statistical needs ofthe Immigration and Naturalization Service as well as those of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a wide variety of other federal offices, and many nongovernmental sources. The recommendations are addressed to the Congress, the Attorney General, the commissioner of the INS, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. coordinator for refugee affairs, and other government and nongovernmental sources of immigration statistics. Although not a focus of the report, estimates of the size of the illegal alien population aredealt with in a methodological appendix.