Lowering the Cost of Becoming a Citizen

Immigration is a huge part of the American dream and it's far too difficult for people who want to be here, to be here legally. Prospective naturalized citizens must collect all necessary paperwork, pay a $725 application fee, and a $70 fee for fingerprinting (How much does it cost… US Citizenship?). Applicants must also have lived in the U.S. for 5 years and be a permanent citizen. Immigrants also have a wait time of up to two years, meaning after they spend the required 5 years, they must wait even longer. This is costly in terms of fees and a working visa in order to be a permanent citizen. The project is called Working Class Hero (WCH) and will seek to mitigate these problems and greatly improve our country’s immigration process.

These people are getting out of their countries for a reason, especially in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, where most immigrants come from. These three nations, and many more, face unparalleled magnitudes of violent crime and fatal conditions. Secondly, Mexicans do not make up most of the unauthorized immigrants coming to America, proving that Trump’s idea is biased, and only trying to fulfill his hate against this ethnicity group. A majority of Mexicans, according to a study, who have moved to the United States say they “enjoy a better life and have largely achieved their goals”. Not only this, but when migrating to the United States, Mexican immigrants are blamed for taking American jobs, but really, this can be easily disproved. Immigrants take the jobs that no one wants and most of these jobs have a salary of minimum wage, frequently require to travel a lot, and consist of harsh working conditions that a meager amount of non-immigrants desire. Immigrants are crucial to America’s economic development, especially when bringing different ideas to society that add to the success of this

Not just in money but in resources, we use more resources to deport or capture undocumented citizens than we can really afford. According to Senator Schumer, Upfront magazine 2016, “ Without reform, our immigration laws threaten to tear apart families and force our government to expend precious resources to deport millions.” What Senator Schumer is making clear is that the government is spending too much money on resources to deport undocumented citizens when instead they could find a way to make some if not all undocumented citizens a path to citizenship. Some people might argue that if undocumented citizens cooperated with the law or government there wouldn’t be an issue. This might be true but maybe if the government didn’t assume that all undocumented citizens are criminals and deport them instead of giving them a chance at citizenship, there would also be no issue. The key point is that instead of focusing on kicking undocumented citizens out, we should be focusing on making it possible for them to stay as legal

The immigration policy center calculates the cost to the US economy of delayed immigration legislation. They have calculated that the federal government has spent 186.6 billion dollars trying to enforce immigration since 1986, which has failed to control the number of immigrants coming into the US. The number of illegal immigrants has tripled over the last two and a half decades to over eleven million. Since 1993, the budget for Border Patrol, along with the US Mexican border, has increased from 360 million to 3.5 billion. The budget for Customs and Border Protection has increased from 5.9 billion to 11.9 billion. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has gone from 3.3 billion in 2003 to 5.9 billion in

In reality, getting rid of illegal aliens would naturally raise the wages of low end jobs. If employers suddenly lose access to their low paying work source they will need to appeal to another group of potential workers. In order to do that, they would need to offer more money for the job, thus decreasing unemployment among legal citizens, as well as increasing the national average pay.

Becoming a citizen of the United States is a very prolonged process. Not just anybody can necessarily become a US citizen, there are multiple requirements and responsibilities to becoming a citizen, no matter if it is here in the US or any other particular country such as brazil or Germany. Being a US citizen is a special privilege and those who have become fortunate enough to become a citizen in the US should feel extremely lucky and proud. Even though they do become US citizens, they necessarily should not forget about their home country, but at least share the joyfulness of becoming a US citizen. The process of becoming a proud citizen of the Us is not necessarily hard, but you have to have been a decent residence here in the US, this basically means that you had obeyed all of the laws, were a good person with good moral character.

As you can see nothing is ever simple. There are over one thousand million people who are considered to live in poverty in the world. When one hears of America, the world of opportunity and success, one might only hope and try to experience it. Many illegal immigrants want to make a better life for their families and get away from poverty. They want to be given the chance to improve and are willing to work for it. Journalist John W. Schoen stated “The immigrants I’ve met seem to be hard-working, honest, decent, family-oriented people – many of whom would make better citizens than some American-born citizens I know.” So why shouldn’t someone who is working hard and motivated to improve the country be given the same rights as someone who was just fortunate enough to be born in the U.S?

The Heritage Foundations, Tim Kane, Ph.D., writes “America’s exceptional status as a ‘nation of immigrants’ is being challenged by globalization. The biggest challenge for policy makers is to distinguish illusory immigration from real problem. The supported approach from recent years ‘a policy of benign neglect’ is no longer an option.” Members from the Senate and House of Representatives both recognize this and should be given credit for their efforts to craft this proposed comprehensive law which today, is known as the ‘Amnesty Plan.’ I strongly agree with this ‘Amnesty Plan’ and feel it needs to be pushed through due to its solid pillars. Such as, having

Over the past years, our nation has been dealing with immigration issues. The issues have divided our nation and brought about disruption in the nations unity. The immigration topic which has been an issue for many years, was also a major topic in our 2016 presidential election. However not only that, the topic evokes questions about the outcome of our nation's economy, if all illegal immigrants were to be removed.

Dealing with the legal status and deporting undocumented immigrants can cost the United States a lot of money. The country would also lose a lot if they deported all undocumented immigrants. The immigration system is broken and needs to be fixed. The immigration system as of now can’t keep up with the demand of a growing economy and the diversity of the nation. The strict legal limits on green cards makes it nearly impossible for undocumented immigrants to become legal. The country should try to make it as easy as possible for those who qualify to legally come into the country on visas and green cards. A bill has been proposed a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country and to tighten the security at the border. Congress and the President have worked on bills and acts to try and reform immigration. Most of the acts and bills have been rejected and some are being worked on now. Improving rights, and making the process for becoming legal easier, could help more immigrants get into the country and make an impact on the economy. What the immigrants have done so far the economy has helped a lot

The cost of immigration has run from $30 billion to $50 billion a year. America's need for immigration ended a century ago. The huge immigration flow harms both our country and the countries that are sending immigrants here.

When an immigrant utilizes a legal process to get in the country, the process can take a lot of time and money.

For many people, it could be a challenge to become a U.S. citizen. For others, becoming a U.S. citizen was easy. Everyone has the dream to become a U.S. citizen, but not everyone has the privilege to be a U.S. citizen. For the people that do have the privilege to become a U.S. citizen there is a process that the applicants must take and get granted with U.S. citizenship. The steps for becoming a U.S. citizen are eligibility, applying for citizenship, and take oath of allegiance.

I use to dream of becoming a U.S. citizen because I needed a better job, so we took a vacation to check the U.S. out. Both me and my wife fell in love with it and couldn't stand going back to live in Lebanon. We didn't come from a very wealthy family so I saved every penny I possibly could in order to make this dream happen. I just wanted a better life for my family.

For several years, politicians and leaders have talked about and debated over immigrants living in the United States without the proper documentation that declare them a citizen of the States. Many of these immigrants have started families and lived in the United States for many years. Some of these immigrants were brought and raised in the United States as babies and have only known this country since a young age. In the dictionary a citizen is, “a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it” (“Citizen”). An enormous amount of immigrants considers themselves as citizens of the U.S. because they were raised on U.S. soil and not the country they were born from. However, politicians