§ 1377. Collection of data on detained asylum seekers

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(a)In general The Attorney General shall regularly collect data on a nation-wide 1 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.

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(h) [title IX, § 903], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–480, 2681–541.)

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§ 1378
Collection of data on other detained aliens

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Public Law 105–276
Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes

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Immigration and Naturalization Service
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Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(h) [title IX, § 903]
112 Stat. 2681–480

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