Homeland Agency Urged to Make Immigration Fixes Without Congress

Overhauling responsibilities at the Department of Homeland Security is essential to improving the U.S. immigration system in the face of congressional deadlock, researchers say.

The sprawling department could help balance its enforcement and humanitarian roles by coordinating the budgets and missions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to a new report from the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group.

A Department of Homeland Security building that houses several immigration agency field offices in Tukwila, Wash.

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The analysis is the latest effort by outside groups to champion DHS structural changes that can be implemented by the executive branch after Congress has repeatedly failed to ...