Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part F · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 291. Abolishment of INS
Statutory text
In general
Upon completion of all transfers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as provided for by this chapter, the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice is abolished.
Prohibition
The authority provided by section 542 of this title may be used to reorganize functions or organizational units within the Bureau of Border Security or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but may not be used to recombine the two bureaus into a single agency or otherwise to combine, join, or consolidate functions or organizational units of the two bureaus with each other.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title IV § 471 · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 291
(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 471, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2205.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 471, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2205.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 471. ABOLISHMENT OF INS. (a) In General.— Upon completion of all transfers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as provided for by this Act, the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice is abolished. (b) Prohibition.— The authority provided by section 1502 may be used to reorganize functions or organizational units within the Bureau of Border Security or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but may not be used to recombine the two bureaus into a single agency or otherwise to combine, join, or consolidate functions or organizational units of the two bureaus with each other.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, , 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (b), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. , H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.