Fact Sheet Fact Sheet

The President’s Fiscal 2001 Immigration Budget 

2/7/00 (rev.) 

Detention and Removal 

The FY 2001 Budget includes $119.5 million and 250 new positions to strengthen 

efforts to identify and remove criminal aliens by increasing and improving detention 

bed space and transportation. INS will also expand its ability to enter information into 

the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database, allowing nationwide 

computerized identification and apprehension of previously deported criminals. 

State and Local Detention Bed Space 

To comply with the mandatory detention requirements of the Illegal 

Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, the budget requests 25 

Deportation Officers, 67 Detention Enforcement Officers, and 17 support positions to 

sustain an additional 1,000 average daily state and local detention bed spaces. This 

initiative includes resources to detain, remove and transport aliens. ($78.9 million) 

Detention Standards 

The budget requests $8.6 million and 40 Deportation Officers, 37 Detention 

Enforcement Officers, and three Procurement Officers to implement detention 

standards at the state and local prisons and jails where INS contracts for detention beds. 

This initiative will enable INS to implement a program for all aliens in INS detention 

that includes a legal rights video presentation, access to legal materials, private 

telephone access, and visitation in private consultation rooms for attorney/client 

meetings. INS officers will provide management and liaison with the facilities to 

implement and maintain detention standards, initially focusing on the largest facilities 

before upgrading smaller facilities. ($8.6 million) 

Juvenile Detention Bed Space 

The budget requests $8.5 million to fund 120 critically needed juvenile detention 

bed spaces nationwide, as well as providing resources for detention vehicles and other 

support equipment. The budget also requests seven Deportation Officers, three 

Detention Enforcement Officers, and one Procurement Analyst to manage the cases, 

transport the juveniles and implement removals. ($8.5 million) 

National Transportation System 

The budget includes $15.5 million to fund an increase of 16,000 detainee 

transfers and repatriations as part of the Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation 

System (JPATS). JPATS, created in 1995 by the U.S. Marshals Service and INS, is an air 

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transportation system to transfer or repatriate federal prisoners and detainees. This 

funding will allow INS to increase its number of JPATS transfers and repatriations to a 

total of 85,000 in FY 2001. ($15.5 million) 

National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 

The budget includes $8.0 million for 18 Deportation Officer and 32 program 

specialist positions for improvements in INS’ use of the NCIC system, an FBI-operated 

database to track criminals. INS enters deported felons into the database. Included in 

the request are resources for alien detention, the installation of NCIC terminals and 

connections, detention vehicles, travel costs and alien removals. The additional staff 

will allow INS to better coordinate the daily use of NCIC, validate the quality of 

records, confirm the accuracy of the data, respond to hits on INS records in NCIC, and 

take custody, transport, detain and remove aliens apprehended by other law 

enforcement agencies. ($8.0 million) 

FY 2001 Initiatives 

($ in millions) 

Initiative S&E BBDF* Total 

National Transportation System $10.0 $5.5 $15.5 

Juvenile Detention Bed Space 3.5 5.0 8.5 

State/Local Detention Bed Space 51.9 27.0 78.9 

Detention Standards 8.6 – 8.6 

National Crime Information Center (NCIC) 8.0 – 8.0 

Total $82.0 $37.5 $119.5 

* The $37.5 million in the Breached Bond Detention Fund will come from a 

proposed re-authorization of a permanent 245(I) adjustment-of-status program.