Why is it important to split the INSs enforcement and administrative functions?
A. Well, the agency has for many years been unable to meet its dual mandate of enforcing the immigration laws effectively while providing service to people in a decent and humane and timely manner. It’s been really the broad-based consensus of many, from the left and from the right, that this schizophrenic mission is at the heart of the agency’s problems, and that by separating out enforcement from service… you can have an agency which can really meet the dual mandate. The agency has for the last many years been getting an increase in funding, so its budget has basically exploded, but that money has very much been directed into enforcement and specifically into the Border Patrol, mainly at the southern border. And one could argue that those policies haven’t been particularly effective either.
