Blume Library: Immigration: Government Resources: Home

Government Agencies

Office of Immigration Statistics
links to their content are in a box on the right

These are the major agencies in the federal government that deal with immigration issues. For more sources, see the box below.

Collections of Resources

These libraries and other organizations have compiled lists of links to resources dealing with immigration issues:

Purdue: Immigration
guide developed by librarian at Purdue
USA.gov (Immigration and Citizenship)

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks. To search the full collection from an off-campus location, students and faculty will need individual research accounts, which can be requested directly from HDSL. Be sure to use your St. Mary's University email account.

General Government Sources

These are good general sources of government information:

Blume Library Government Information Portal
links to sources at all levels of government, plus special indexes, guides, and other tools to help find government information
State Government Index
basic information about each state and links to pages developed by libraries and other organizations providing detailed access to state government web sites
USA.gov
US government's official web portal, a comprehensive and easy-to-use index and search engine for online U.S. government information.
govInfo.gov
govinfo is the portal to GPO hosted material. It provides access to U.S. government publications from the three branches of the federal government.

CRS Reports

Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports cover all subject areas and are excellent overviews. The Library of Congress, under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018, is making recent CRS report available.

Major Collections

CRS Reports - Library of Congress
Databases of Congressional Research Reports searchable via the Library of Congress. Offers faceted search, including by author. Only PDFs. Limited historical reports as of 2019.

Other Compilations

CRS Reports - Federation of American Scientists
Compilation of CRS reports on a broad range of national policy issues like defense, nuclear and conventional weapons, terrorism, etc.
CRS Reports - University of North Texas
UNT's archive is searchable and contains as many different reports, and variations of reports. Mainly historical.
EveryCRSReport.com
CRS reports available as PDF and html. Links to historic reports made available by UNT. Shows revision history for each report. Authors have been removed,

Blume Library database with some CRS Reports

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
CRS Reports are location under the category US Congressional Documents. Search the category and then limit by Document Type to focus on CRS Reports.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
To see the CRS reports, look under Special Collections and the CRS Reports & Issue Briefs. You can then search by topic.

GAO Reports

The Government Accountability Office generates hundreds of reports each year on topics related to government agencies and actions. The Library has a limited collection of these reports in printed form (classification number is GA 1.13:). You can find them via the Discover or the Library Catalog.

Key Resources

GAO Materials - Advanced Search
Searches all GAO publications and web pages including reports, testimonies, legal decisions, and bid protests. See the Help for search tips.
GAO Reports & Testimonies - Browse
List of topics covered the the GAO. You can browse by topic, date, or agency.
GAO Reports - govinfo.gov
Reports from reports from 1994-2008. Check the GAO website recent content.

Blume Library database with some GAO reports

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Library's primary focus is security, but it is very broadly defined and makes a large number of GAO reports available and searchable. Some features of the HSDL are only available from on-campus computers, but the GAO reports are in their "limited collection," which is freely available to anyone.