§1378 Collection of Data on Other Detained Aliens

Summary

The Attorney General must regularly collect nationwide information on people detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, except those listed in section 1377. The data must separate criminal aliens and noncriminal aliens who are not seeking asylum. For each group it must record how many there are, their ages, gender, countries of origin, and what kinds of facilities hold them (INS or other federal, state, or local facilities). For those two groups the Attorney General must also track how often they are moved between facilities, the average length of detention, how many have been held for each length of time in 3-month blocks, release rates by each INS district, and how detention ended (deportation, parole, or other). For criminal aliens the Attorney General must also count how many were caught but not detained and, where possible by checking other databases, list crimes they committed after not being detained. Starting October 1, 1999, and every October 1 after that, the Attorney General must send a report with that yearly data (for the fiscal year ending September 30) to the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress and make the data available to the public on request under rules the Attorney General sets.