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[CITE: 8USC1377]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                         Part IX--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1377. Collection of data on detained asylum seekers


(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:
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        (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) of this section for the fiscal year 
ending September 30 of that year.

(c) Availability to public

    Copies of the data collected under subsection (a) of this section 
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, Sec. 101(h) [title IX, Sec. 903], Oct. 21, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2681-480, 2681-541.)

                          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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1378 of this title.
