Splitting the INS
Fixing a broken agency.

By NR Editors
From “The Week,” January 28, 2002, issue, of National Review

he Bush administration recently proposed splitting the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two separate agencies, the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement and the Bureau of Immigration Services. The idea makes sense. But as John Fonte of the Hudson Institute has pointed out, the 40-page document describing the plan talks far more about "services" for its immigrant "customers" than it does about citizenship. Naturalization should be an exercise in patriotic assimilation, not just a trip to the DMV. So the "service" agency should be renamed, for starters. How about a Bureau of Americanization?