8 U.S.C. § 1377 : US Code - Section 1377: Collection of data on detained asylum seekers

Search 8 U.S.C. § 1377 : US Code - Section 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:
(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.