What is Immigration and Naturalization Service?
[[File:Seal of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.svg|right|thumb|{{center|The seal of the old United States Immigration and Naturalization Service}}]] The '''United States Immigration and Naturalization Service''' ('''INS''') was an [[agency]] of the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] from 1933 to 2003.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history |title=Our History |publisher=US Citizenship and Immigration Services |access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> The agency ceased to exist under that name on March 1, 2003. This is when most of its [[wikt:responsibility|responsibilities]] were transferred to three new agencies. These were the [[U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services]] (USCIS), [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE), and [[U.S. Customs and Border Protection]] (CBP). All were within the newly created [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]], as part of a major government re[[organization]] following the [[September 11 attacks]] of 2001. == History == In 1890, the [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]], rather than the individual [[States of the United States|states]], regulated [[immigration]] into the United States.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/elis/historyculture/index.htm Ellis Island], [[National Park Service]], [[United States Department of the Interior]]</ref> The [[Immigration Act of 1891]] established a Commissioner of Immigration in the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]]. Immigration was transferred to the [[United States Department of Commerce and Labor]] after 1903 and the [[United States Department of Labor|Department of Labor]] after 1913.<ref>Darrell Hevenor Smith and H. Guy Herring, ''The Bureau of Immigration: Its History, Activities, and Organization'' (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1924).</ref> In 1940, with increasing concern about national security, immigration and naturalization was organized under