"Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance" ed. by Steve Redburn, Peter Reuter, Malay Majmundar

This book addresses how to improve budgeting for the federal immigration enforcement system, specifically focusing on the parts of that system that are operated and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Policy makers and others who are interested in how the nation's immigration enforcement system is organized and operates also will find it useful.

The report recommends that DOJ establish policy-level procedures to plan and coordinate policy planning and implementation to improve performance of the immigration enforcement system. The report also recommends that DOJ and DHS accelerate their design of an integrated capacity to track cases and project immigration enforcement activity.

Contents
Acronyms
Summary
1 Introduction
Enforcement Responsibilities: Overview
Study Background and Committee Charge
Study Approach and Report Structure
2 Exploring the Budgeting Problem
Bases for Budget Estimates
Budget Preparation Process
3 Recent Patterns of Unauthorized Immigration
Stocks and Flows of Unauthorized Immigrants
Demographic History and Profiles
Cross-Border Flows of Temporary Migrants
Demographic Trends in Mexico
Conclusion: Implications for Budgeting
4 The Immigration Enforcement System
Overview
Operational Objectives
Enforcement Pipelines
Immigration-Related Criminal Charges—Regional Variations in Enforcement
Discretion, Constraints, Adaptation, and Coordination
Conclusion
5 Budgeting for DOJ Immigration Enforcement
Recent History: Overview
The Budget Development Process
The Broader Budget Context
6 Budgeting Challenges
Why All Budgeting Is Hard
The Particular Challenges of Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement
7 Conclusions and Recommendations
Conclusions: What Has Been Learned
Recommendation
Appendixes
A Immigration Policy Timeline
B Efforts to Model Workload and Resource Requirements
C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
References