A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services fee increase for legal immigration could only serve to further incentivize illegal immigration and border crossings.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services first fee increase in over seven years went into effect at the start of April, a change that could further fuel illegal border crossings. 'If it is faster and easier and less costly to come here illegally than it is legally, then rational human beings will do that,' Lora Ries, the Director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.
In a press release explaining the increases, which were finalized in January, the USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou said the agency will use the new revenues to 'improve customer experience and stem backlog growth.
There’s literally no cost to file a frivolous asylum application,' Ries explained, noting that the money it costs to process such cases will get shifted to increased fees for legal migrants or the taxpayers. Some of those fees, such as an I-129L Petition for nonimmigrant workers, have now risen nearly $1,000, with that fee changing from $460 to $1,385 under the new rules.
They are truly incentivizing what people apply for,' Ries said. 'They are directly determining, incentivizing, and encouraging people to apply for asylum, to apply for work permits, to apply to naturalize… we want U.S. citizens and we want people to want to become citizens and be loyal to America, but not through funding manipulation.'
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