Executive Summary 

The President’s Fiscal 2002 Immigration Budget 

4/9/01 

Strengthening the Nation’s Immigration System

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 budget request for the Immigration and Naturalization 

Service (INS) totals $5.51 billion, a 10-percent increase over the FY 2001 funding level. 

This budget includes $380 million in enhancements and provides $123 million in 

additional funding to the agency’s base. The budget adds a total of 1,364 new staff 

positions, which will allow INS to grow to more than 36,200 positions by the end of 

FY 2002. 

The FY 2002 INS budget supports the agency’s goals and strategies that it has 

pursued over the past several years. INS will build on its successful multi-year strategy 

to effectively regulate the border; deter and dismantle smuggling or trafficking of aliens 

in the interior of the United States, as well as other immigration-related crime; identify 

and remove incarcerated criminal aliens from the United States; andreduce immigration 

benefit fraud and other document abuse. 

INS will move forward with a broad spectrum of initiatives: 

• The FY 2002 budget increases the level of U.S. Border Patrol agents by 570 to a 

record level of more than 10,000 agents, more than double the level in FY 1993. This 

continued expansion is part of the Administration’s clear and firm commitment to 

improving control of the border. The budget increases resources for critical border 

technology by $20 million and provides nearly $43 million in construction funding 

to support Border Patrol enforcement efforts. INS will acquire and deploy 

additional Integrated Surveillance Intelligence Systems along the border for 

monitoring from remote sites. 

• Supporting the need for both enforcement and facilitation at U.S. air and sea ports of 

entry, the budget includes: 417 airport and seaport Immigration Inspectors, 122 

Inspections support personnel and an additional $70 million in support funding 

from Immigration Passenger Fees. 

• The budget request includes $6.6 million and 78 positions to expand INS’ 

intelligence capabilities at the borders. The Intelligence program provides strategic 

and tactical intelligence support to INS officers enforcing immigration laws and 

assists other federal agencies in addressing national security issues. These resources 

would be used to establish anti-smuggling intelligence units that focus on the 

northern border, collecting, analyzing and disseminating information to enhance 

border control operations at ports of entry. Resources would also be used to 

improve intelligence capabilities on the southern border in Arizona where expanded 

enforcement operations require greater support. 

• In addition to the expansion of INS’ more visible enforcement functions, additional 

funding will strengthen the detention and removal process. To that end, 173 

positions and an additional $88.8 million are requested in FY 2002 for detention and 

removal initiatives which increase detention bed spaces by 1,607 beds, expand 

national transportation, improve health services for detained aliens, and improve 

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coordination with U.S. Attorneys. Included in the $88.8 million is a projected 

$40 million in the Breached Bond/Detention Fund revenue which is anticipated as a 

result of the reauthorization of Section 245(i) adjustment-of-status program. 

• INS processed more than one million naturalization applications during FY 2000, and 

plans to continue the quality and timely processing of applications. The FY 2002 

budget $100 million necessary to implement the first installment of the President’s 

five-year $500 million initiative to process all applications within six months. 

• The INS budget request also supports critical infrastructure requirements. It 

includes $74.6 million for Border Patrol and detention construction projects. It also 

includes $6 million for additional work to enhance border infrastructure through 

projects such as fences, roads and border barriers. 

Summary of Immigration Budget Enhancements 

($ in millions) 

BORDER MANAGEMENT 

Border Enforcement - Border Patrol Agents

Border Enforcement – Technology

Border Facilitation - Inspectors (Air and Sea)

and Support Personnel 

Intelligence Units 

SUBTOTAL 

DETENTION AND REMOVALS 

Consolidated Detention Bed Space Expansion

National Transportation System

Public Health

Coordination with US Attorneys

SUBTOTAL 

INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE 

Border Patrol Construction Projects

Border Infrastructure

Detention Construction Projects

SUBTOTAL 

IMMIGRATION SERVICES INITIATIVE 

Backlog Reduction 

SUBTOTAL 

TOTAL INCREASE REQUESTED 

Funding Positions 

$75.0 570 

20.0 – 

70.0 543 

6.6 78 

171.6 1,191 

$68.4 127 

8.8 

8.7 

2.9 46 

88.8 173 

$36.7 --

6.0 --

31.9 --

74.6 --

$45.0 --

45.0 --

$380.0 1,364