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Title 8, Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-110

§1377 Collection of Data on Detained Asylum Seekers

Title 8 › CHAPTER 12 — IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › SUBCHAPTER II — IMMIGRATION › Part IX — Miscellaneous › § 1377

Last updated Sep 23, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must regularly gather nationwide information about asylum seekers who are held in detention. The data must cover ten areas: how many detainees there are; their countries of origin; the percent of each gender; the number at each year of age; which facility each person is in; whether a facility also holds criminal prisoners and whether asylum seekers share cells with criminals; how often and how many transfers occur; average detention time and counts by length of detention; release rates for each district of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and how each case was resolved. Starting October 1, 1999, and by October 1 each year after that, the Attorney General must send a report with this data to the Committee on the Judiciary of each House of Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30. Copies of the data must be given to the public on request under rules set by the Attorney General.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1377

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(a)In general
The Attorney General shall regularly collect data on a nation-wide basis with respect to asylum seekers in detention in the United States, including the following information:
(1)The number of detainees.
(2)An identification of the countries of origin of the detainees.
(3)The percentage of each gender within the total number of detainees.
(4)The number of detainees listed by each year of age of the detainees.
(5)The location of each detainee by detention facility.
(6)With respect to each facility where detainees are held, whether the facility is also used to detain criminals and whether any of the detainees are held in the same cells as criminals.
(7)The number and frequency of the transfers of detainees between detention facilities.
(8)The average length of detention and the number of detainees by category of the length of detention.
(9)The rate of release from detention of detainees for each district of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
(10)A description of the disposition of cases.
(b)Annual reports
Beginning October 1, 1999, and not later than October 1 of each year thereafter, the Attorney General shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of each House of Congress a report setting forth the data collected under subsection (a) for the fiscal year ending September 30 of that year.
(c)Availability to public
Copies of the data collected under subsection (a) shall be made available to members of the public upon request pursuant to such regulations as the Attorney General shall prescribe.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act of 1998, and also as part of the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999, and the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and

Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Transfer of Functions

, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1377

Title 8, Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Sep 23, 2026

Release point: 119-110