Abstract
The history of immigration across the U.S.-Canadian border is a potentially useful field for the study of twentieth-century U.S. immigration law and its administration. Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) provide opportunities for new research in that field and have recendy become available for research at the U.S. National Archives. In 1996 the INS transferred eight thousand new boxes of files to the archives. These files do not tell the INS story in isolation. Rather, they are a rich source of information on the interactions of the agency with individual immigrants and citizens; ethnic and civic organizations; local, state, and foreign governments; as well as other branches and agencies of the federal government. For this reason, historical records of the INS can be a valuable resource for researchers in
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