Thread: Dream-Act students will pay $465 fee for legal status document

"Today's guidance undermines the rule of law and gives lawbreakers an unfair advantage over legal immigrants," Smith said. "When will this president's assault on the rule of law and the American people end?"

That's what I'd like to know.

This will only bring more job competion, the last thing we need! Americans first, then those coming here through the proper channels. There should be no jobs for the kids of law-breaking parents who blantantly do what they want without repercussion. This is not what we the people of the United States want in any way. We are tired of taking a backseat to these people.

We want our jobs, our laws enforced, our people protected and cared for. We do not want illegals rewarded for bad behavior and disrespect. We do not want arrogant people who think they are above our laws and other people. Someone needs to put an end to this and fast!

Cost for Immigration Program at $585 Million

By Rosa Ramirez | National Journal – Wed, Aug 1, 2012

The proposed price tag to adjust the immigration status of more than 1 million youths in the country illegally was pegged in the millions of dollars.

An Associated Press story last week said that the cost of implementing the immigration program could cost $585 million and would require the federal government to hire hundreds of federal workers. According to the story, AP obtained internal Homeland Security Department documents marked “not for distribution.”

While it’s the first time the public has seen a number associated with President Obama’s immigration policy that will grant temporary work permits to thousands of people under 30, many of whom were largely raised here, immigrant-advocacy groups say the number alone doesn’t show the full picture.

“I think the problem is looking at the number in isolation,” said Tamar Jacoby, president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small-business owners advocating immigration reform.

“What would it cost to deport them?” Jacoby asked. Policymakers, and the general public, should take into account the costs of these young immigrants living and working in the underground economy.

President Obama stated the qualifications that allow people to apply: youth who came to the country before the age of 16; those who have lived in the U.S. continuously for five years; individuals who have fulfilled an educational or military requirement; and those who don’t pose a threat to national security or public safety. The administration has said that 800,000 people could qualify. Others say that the number of eligible youths could surpass 1 million.

“They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper,” Obama said in mid-June when he announced the program. The administration is expected to release application procedures on Wednesday.

Jacoby said the cost-benefit analysis should include considerations such as the taxes these youths could contribute once they obtained decent-paying jobs after college, the cost and feasibility of mass deportations, and tax-revenue loss if these youths turned to gangs or remained unemployed for long periods of time.

“I think it will get traction from those who are dead set against it,” Jacoby said of the proposed dollar amount.

The tentative figure focused on the net costs, without accounting for the revenues that will be collected through application fees for the temporary work permits, said Ali Noorani, executive director for National Immigration Forum.

That’s because the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, the arm of Homeland Security that processes citizenship naturalizations, green cards, and temporary work visas, generates its funding from fees collected for such services.

In 1988, Congress created what was formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a user-fee agency. The agency, which is now called USCIS, has since generated revenues from applications to pay for daily operations.

Since Sept. 11, the agency has increased the cost of applying for citizenship and other immigration benefits so that the government can recover the full costs associated with processing some benefits.

While the agency provides a significant number of services free of charge to some—asylum, refugee applications, and military personnel—the administration has said these undocumented youths would not qualify for fee waivers.

Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler said the agency is working through operational planning for the program. He said in an email, “As the Administration has repeatedly made clear, USCIS is a fee-based agency and the adjudication of deferred action application requests will not use taxpayer dollars nor will the agency generally accept fee waivers.”

Current fees to apply for employment authorization applications are $380. They require, in most cases, biometric fingerprints, adding to the costs. Marshall Fitz, director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, estimated the costs to apply for deferred action could be $475.

“Whether the cost would net out to zero—I don’t know,” Fitz said. “I think one could anticipate there could be some costs. That would make sense. Anytime you go from zero to 60 [mph] requires you to spend some energy and manpower.”

Still, he suggested that someone inside DHS with political motivations released the documents to the media.

“That kind of damaging documents should have never seen the light of day,” Fitz said. “It was clearly leaked by someone who doesn’t want to see it succeed.”

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Here in California Nursing Programs are impacted. Students are fighting to get their prerequistes completed. Students are waiting 4-5 years to get into Nursing Programs once they have completed their prerequistes. I am talking about students with 4.0 averages, students on the Deans List. Having helped my child complete applications for the programs I know it states that the students must have a Social Security Number and they must pay for a background check.

I have recently gone to the Dreamers Web Sites and forums to see what their reaction and take is on Deferred Action. Over and over I read comments from Dreamers celebrating the fact that they have completed or are in Nursing Programs in California and can now work. Every illegal immigrant student that has been in a Nursing Program in California is guilty of Fraud and Theft and should automatically be deported.

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