US Immigration - ridiculous hike in fees! Is this fair?

taxes have been going up since 1913..and the 16 th ammendment..most of the Federal Taxes are illegal and the gov't has been losing cases as the lawyers for the people protesting their taxes have been winning. The income tax of 1914 were never legal in the first place..Aaron Russo has a CD explaining this situation..he is like Michale Moore in investigating the fraud if the American INCOME AND SATE AND LOCAL TAXES.. Since the big three is failing and a lot of smaller industries too..who is going to pay the taxes now that industry is being outsourced over seas? Yep, the American people...get ready for a bumpy ride..

It cost my son and I thousands to get from Samoa to USA. We had to go through the US Embassy in New Zealand to enter the USA. The fees were phenomenal and on top of that the airfares to get us this far were expensive too. I am thankful we both have our green cards but I tell ya, the process was lengthy and expensive. And now they are thinking of increasing the costs? it is unfair for those who are willing to go the extra mile to enter the USA legally.

I agree this is only making it harder for immigrants that are coming here and doing things the right way. If anything I think this will cause the population of illegal immigrants to go up even more rather than helping the situation.

I have to agree with you, my friend...it seems that our government is penalizing the people who are trying to follow the rules and do things the way it is supposed to be done.... I can understand why a person might consider doing it less than the "correct way"...... I had never known what the costs were and they do seem to be awfully high....

You are good! Yeh, I wonder why too? I have came to US legally with visas and unable to get a sponsership to work. And, illegal immirgrant will be granted a visas Z and ultimately a citizen ---- get a job. Well, there is no fair or unfair, right or wrong in this case. Pretty dilema, I do wonder how the decision is being make?

Yeah, well thank the conservatives for the hike in immigration fees; I don't mean that every conservative republican was in on it, but the political party has been concerned about immigration reform (funny that a hike in fees still amounts to a reform) for awhile now. In response to your question "why do those who do it the right way get treated worse than the illegal immigrants" has a simple but (and unfortunately) troubling answer: because they can. They can financially exploit those who legally registered as immigrants; in dealing with ILLEGAL immigrants, the only thing the government can do is ship them back. They aren't a citizen, nor do they have proper ID; that said, there is really nothing they can do it tax or hurt them financially, save sending them back. Deporting them is a sort of last ditch effort and may be more costly than just hiking legal immigrant fees. I'm guessing that's their motive.

I definitely agree with you about this not being fair. It should be the opposite way around. The illegals should be given harsher treatment than those people who follow the rules and do it the right way. That is ridiculous how they are raising the fees. It is like our government is supporting illegal immigrants and supporting more crime in this country. A lot of things do not make sense with our government.

Yes it's fair to raise the rates of immigration. In order to stay here they should have to pay more for coming here illegally. After all look what it cost us every year they are here. In California alone over five hospitals have had to close because of Illegals using the Emergancy Room as a doctors office. If you have ever had to set in a waiting room for ten hours to be seen by a doctor because there are people in front of you with a cold or they over ate then you would be upset to. Or if you ever had to take a family member home and have an added expensive of calling and ambulance because that's the only way they could get in to the emergancy room because of illegals you would feel that was the right thing to do. I think they should all be gathered up and taken back.

No it's not right and it's not fair. I am all about getting the illegals out of here, but for those that are doing it legally this is bull. Of course did we really think Bush and his cronies would pass a chance up on making a profit some where on this mess?

Is that all they charge? hey, think about it, you are coming to the US where your future children will live as US citizens, and you are complaining about several measly hundred dollars? If it were up to me, I'd charge every immigrant 50,000 so I could have the militia to kick out the illegals. ripe, but fair.