Posted on 09/18/2008 12:01:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A record number of people, some 1.4 million, rushed to become naturalized US citizens in the 2007 fiscal year before a hike in fees was introduced.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Wednesday that in 2006 some 730,000 people became naturalized citizens.
The Immigration Policy center said the doubling of the figures was due to several reasons, but mostly because from August 2007 the cost of the application process rose some 80 percent to around 675 dollars.
In July 2007, just a month before the new charges came into effect, there were some 450,000 applications compared to 20,000 in August.
Immigration was also the focus of intense debate in the United States in 2007, encouraging eligible immigrants to apply to change their status.
Year 2007 "was an anomaly," said a USCIS spokesman, Bill Wright.
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But but Nancy Pelosi says that no one wants to live in America, we don’t have universal cuban health care, German unions, or cultural diversity oh and our economy sucks and we’re a xenophobic ultra-nationalist hell hole.
Funny how the left says America is such an awful place to live, but yet we have record breaking foreigners applying for US citizenship?
Do we not have a maximum number of people allowed to enter the States each year?
The hike in fees (by about $150), I think, has little to do with the numbers. It has more to do with the fact that “Hispanic” organizations like La Raza and other pro-criminal/illegal groups have been driving former illegals (current permanent residents) to become citizens in order to influence the elections and public policy.
Somehow the pro-illegal/anti-American wings of both parties will try to slant this as “we need illegal alien amnesty”
And about 20% of them were Mexican born...
Just a miniscule amount from western countries...
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