Fact Sheet Fact Sheet

The President’s Fiscal 2001 Immigration Budget 

2/7/00 

Professionalism and Infrastructure 

For FY 2001, INS requests $10.1 million to continue improving the institutional 

development and infrastructure needed to sustain the enormous growth in the 

workforce over the past several years. This priority provides critical services for 

balanced support of the service and enforcement missions of the agency. It also 

ensures that a motivated and diverse workforce is well-trained to do its job. The 

Professionalism and Infrastructure initiative focuses on improving personnel 

management and accountability, restoring support staff for operational activities in the 

Regions and Headquarters, and integrating mission functions and strategies. This 

initiative will improve INS’ ability to provide sustained support of its operational 

components and specific infrastructure and professionalism objectives to: 

• Reduce the shortfall in meeting training requirements; 

• Improve professionalism and motivation by effectively managing diversity in the 

INS workforce and through more flexible career development and geographic 

mobility strategies; and 

• Strengthen organizational discipline and responsiveness by establishing more 

effective internal communication methods, and by better integrating strategic 

planning across enforcement and service functions. 

Financial Management System 

This request for the Federal Financial Management System (FFMS) will further 

INS’ ability to become compliant with requirements of the Chief Financial Officers Act 

of 1990, and the Government Management Reform Act of 1994, for auditable financial 

statements that more accurately track the status and use of funds. These resources 

support the Administration's priorities to enhance professionalism and improve 

accountability within the INS financial management process. ($4.2 million from DOJ’s 

Asset Forfeiture Fund) 

Legal Proceedings Base Shortfall 

The INS budget requests 34 attorneys and 16 support staff to partially remedy 

serious understaffing of the Legal Proceedings Program. The Legal Proceedings 

Program provides the full range of legal support, including core responsibilities for 

representing INS before the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. 

In addition, recently enacted legislation and new Congressional mandates and 

resources granted to the Service have increased the need for legal services support of 

expanded enforcement activities, increased arrests, criminal alien removal programs, 

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Institutional Removal Programs, anti-smuggling efforts, conveyance seizures, 

expedited removal proceedings, and mandatory detention and removal of illegal 

aliens. The U.S. Army Manpower Analysis Agency recently completed a 

comprehensive review and documented the inadequate staffing needs in a 600-page 

report. The resources requested provide funding and positions for only a portion of 

the total documented shortfall. ($4.8 million) 

Administrative Center Staffing 

Overall base resources for the Administrative Centers are inadequate to meet 

present commitments, thus resulting in significant backlogs and excessive overtime 

costs. The Administrative Centers need 30 positions to restore service to an acceptable 

level to meet needs for contracting, personnel and other administrative services in a 

growing agency. Current base resources allow only limited guidance and training to 

implement new initiatives, particularly in customer service areas. 

($2.0 million) 

Financial and Debt Management Services 

• The requested 60 positions will provide INS with a fully operational Debt 

Management Center (DMC) that will report to the Office of Financial Management. 

This center will perform all duties and responsibilities for the servicing of deposits 

and bond receipt administration, as well as the collection and administration of other 

account-receivable services (e.g., administrative fines and uncollectable checks). 

Congressional approval of the INS finance restructuring included approval of a DMC 

for Burlington, Vermont, as well as the Dallas Finance Center. This request is the first 

step in implementing this plan. This restructuring, together with the implementation 

of new financial systems, requires additional resources to handle the increasing dataentry workload. This initiative will provide INS with improved financial reports and 

systems control. ($3.3 million) 

FY 2001 Initiatives 

($ in millions) 

Initiative S&E 

Financial Management Systems 

(Funded from Asset Forfeiture Fund) [4.2] 

Legal Proceedings Base Shortfall 4.8 

Administrative Center Staffing 2.0 

Financial and Debt Management Services $ 3.3 

Total 10.1 
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