Opinion: Trump's latest anti-immigrant move: Making it far more costly to apply for citizenship (via latimesopinion)
The proposed new rules direct United States Citizenship and Immigrant Services — the arm of our immigration system that is supposed to service and welcome, not deport or detain — to significantly raise the fees for the citizenship application. This and a range of other proposed changes to fees will be published for a 30-day comment period starting Nov. 14, half the usual time allotted for public input.
Under the proposal, the cost to naturalize would rise from $725 to $1,170 for a single application, hitting a level that totals about a month’s worth of gross income for an immigrant making the federal minimum wage. Recognizing the burden that even the lower fee had posed for low-income immigrants, USCIS has had a fee-waiver system in place that was strengthened and extended by the Obama administration.
The official rationale for the reworked fees and waiver system is that USCIS needs to enhance its revenues to cover its costs. The projected need requires a total revenue increase of around 20%, a figure that hardly justifies a more than 60% hike in the cost of naturalization for most applicants.
This worry about new Americans clamoring to naturalize runs against a traditional bipartisan consensus that lawful permanent residents should be encouraged to take the next step to full civic engagement.
The highly respected USCIS is being asked to make a change that will have clear political impact: Immigrants — who tend to
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