INS moves from Department of Labor to Department of Justice

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's reorganization of the federal government moves the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. The reorganization centralizes immigration enforcement and adjudication under a single law-enforcement agency. Critics note the move conflates the policing and judicial functions of immigration, an institutional design problem that persists for more than 40 years until the 1983 creation of EOIR.