NEW "DUAL MISSIONS" OF THE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TIBRARY OF CONGRESS AUC 3 0 2005 TRANSFER HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION MAY 5, 2005 Serial No. 109-32 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.house.gov/judiciary 21-026 PDF U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 2005 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office The Honorable John N. Hostettler, a Representative in Congress from the State of Indiana, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING RECORD Prepared Statement and biography of Eugene R. Davis, Retired Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Prepared Statement of the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, a Representative Prepared Statement of the Honorable Elton Gallegly, a Representative in Map of "9/11/2001 Deaths by State of Residence," submitted by Mr. Michael NEW "DUAL MISSIONS" OF THE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2005 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:35 p.m., in Room 2141, Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable John Hostettler (Chair of the Subcommittee) presiding. Mr. HOSTETTLER. The Subcommittee will come to order. The first two Subcommittee hearings of the year examined in detail how the immigration enforcement agencies have inadequate resources and too few personnel to carry out their mission. The witnesses mentioned the lack of uniforms, badges, detention space, and the inevitable low morale of frontline agents who are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of incoming illegal aliens. If this were not enough, these "immigration enforcement" agencies also face internal confusion resulting from dual or multiple missions in which immigration has all too often taken a back seat. Sadly, contrary to Congress' expectations, immigration enforcement has not been the primary focus of either of these agencies, and that is the subject of today's hearing. The Homeland Security Act, enacted in November 2002, split the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS, into separate immigration service and enforcement agencies, both within the Department of Homeland Security. This split had been pursued by Chairman Sensenbrenner based on testimony and evidence that the dual missions of INS had resulted in poor performance. There was a constant tug-of-war between providing good service to law-abiding aliens and enforcing the law against law-breakers. The plain language of the Homeland Security Act, Title D, creates a "Bureau of Border Security," and specifically transfers all immigration enforcement functions of INS into it. Yet when it came down to actually creating the two: new agencies, the Administration veered off course. Although the service functions of INS were transferred to USCIS, the enforcement side of INS was split in two, what is now Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to handle interior enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to guard our borders. ICE was given all Customs agents, investigators, intelligence and analysis-from the Treasury Department, as well as the Federal Protective Service to guard Federal buildings, and the Federal Air |