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Is the Immigration and Naturalization Service Unreformable?

Past Experience and Future Prospects

California State University, Chico

According to Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) critics, the agency is failing badly at its central tasks. The most common diagnosis of this failure concludes that the INS has been granted an excess of discretionary authority. Thus, the way to alleviate the situation is to remove some of this authority, possibly by eliminating the INS altogether and assigning its functions to other government agencies. This article argues that the diagnosis is mistaken; the proper response is not to decrease the discretionary authority of the INS, as many of its critics have suggested, but rather to increase its autonomy and power.

Administration & Society, Vol. 34, No. 4, 370-388 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0095399702034004002


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