CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : LAGUNA NIGUEL : INS Names Interim Western Chief

Richard Rogers, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, was named acting commissioner for the agency’s sprawling Western Region. Rogers, who joined the INS as a Border Patrol agent in 1969, will temporarily take over the region’s top position from Stanley E. McKinley, who is returning to his post as Eastern Regional commissioner. The INS is planning a reorganization that is intended to centralize policy-making and the command of operations in Washington. The position of regional commissioner will be abolished and replaced with a regional administrator, who will handle administrative matters--a major departure from the responsibilities of the regional commissioner, who at one time had virtual autonomy in the INS bureaucracy.