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As a Cambodian refugee whose family was shattered by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, it gave him a sense of security. But at 16, pursued by members of a rival gang, he fired a gun and killed someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung was tried as an adult, convicted of murder and sent to prison with a sentence of 35 years to life. Now 25 years on, the California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/bph/parole-suitability-hearings-overview/what-to-expect-after-a-parole-suitability-hearing/\">parole board has approved Yung’s release\u003c/a>, based on the work he’s done to rehabilitate himself and help fellow incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until late Friday, it seemed as if Yung faced the possibility of being released from prison only to be locked up again, this time by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yung feared he’d be deported to Cambodia, a country his family fled when he was 3 years old. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anoop Prasad, lawyer, Asian Law Caucus\"]'As long as California is relying on ICE to act with decency and compassion, we have a problem, because ICE has a proven track record across administrations of acting with cruelty. We need a systemic solution.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Yung, the stakes were high. In 2017, he suffered a spinal cord injury during a prison softball game and since then has been paralyzed from the neck down, requiring round-the-clock care and assistance with the basic functions of daily living. He lives in a skilled nursing facility in the Los Angeles area that’s under contract with the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Friday afternoon, an ICE spokesperson said that an immigration detainer, requesting California prison officials turn Yung over to ICE, had been dropped months earlier, on November 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson, who would not agree to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the case, said ICE makes custody determinations on a case-by-case basis, “considering the merits and factors of each case while adhering to current agency priorities, guidelines and legal mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news came as a surprise to Yung’s supporters, who had held a rally in Los Angeles Friday morning calling on California officials not to cooperate with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re relieved it was dropped and he’s not going to be transferred to ICE and he’ll receive the care he needs after leaving prison,” said Anoop Prasad, Yung’s lawyer with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. “But it’s such a nerve-racking process. It shouldn't require community outrage and rallies to get ICE to step in and do the basic, humane thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a policy of notifying incarcerated people if an immigration detainer is dropped, but that didn’t happen here. Even in recent weeks, Yung’s CDCR counselor had told him the hold was still on file, Prasad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his sister, Yung said he won't feel confident that ICE isn't going to detain him until he sees it in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrants funneled from prison to ICE detention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state prison system hands over hundreds of inmates to ICE each year. Between Jan. 1, 2020, and Nov. 30, 2021, the CDCR made 2,600 transfers to ICE, according to data obtained from the agency by the Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And advocates say Yung’s case highlights an injustice: If he had been born in the U.S. or had become a naturalized U.S. citizen, then when he completed his sentence that would have settled his debt to society and he would go free. But as a lawful permanent resident, or “green card” holder, his felony record meant he could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung’s sister Terry Honoré said she was terrified at the thought that her quadriplegic brother could be sent to Cambodia to fend for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don't know how that would work,” she said. “It was really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also feared that Yung’s health could deteriorate in immigration detention, since ICE has been sued over inadequate care for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of medical neglect at baseline in ICE facilities is horrific,” said Prasad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that given how seriously injured Yung is, there’s no plausible argument he could pose a danger to society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Prisoner Support Committee and other advocacy groups are pushing for passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iceoutofca.org/ca-values-act-sb54-408546.html\">Vision Act\u003c/a>, a bill in the state Senate that would block jail and prison officials from honoring ICE detainers for most inmates, like Yung, when they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of people turned out for the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sg_chambita/status/1507435056456880128\">Los Angeles rally Friday\u003c/a> to push for that bill, AB 937, and support Yung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has until April 12 to review Yung’s parole. Unless he moves to block it, Yung will be released from prison and paroled to the care of his family. But advocates want Newsom to go further and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\">stop transfers from California prisons to ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, CDCR press secretary Dana Simas said the prison system notifies ICE of anyone they’re holding who might be a foreign national. ICE then determines their immigration status and decides whether to put an immigration “hold” or detainer on the person. [aside postID=news_11827388]“CDCR responds to detainers from all law enforcement agencies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simas did not respond to requests for comment about Yung’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, another Cambodian refugee, Chanthon Bun, was released from San Quentin despite being told that ICE had a detainer for him. But neither ICE nor CDCR explained why \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827388/cambodian-refugee-leaves-san-quentin-with-covid-19-but-avoids-ice-detention\">he was not transferred to immigration detention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Should rehabilitation affect deportation decisions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yung is proud of the work he did to become a better person in the two decades before his accident. He enrolled in prison support groups and restorative justice programs, pursued his high school diploma, became a teacher’s aide and joined sports teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tried to rehabilitate myself,” he said in a Zoom interview with KQED. “I took classes. I did everything that it took before I went to my parole board hearing. It shocked them a little bit because I did everything before they even asked me to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung’s efforts might have played a role in ICE’s decision to revoke the detainer, though the circumstances of that decision remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/guidelines-civilimmigrationlaw.pdf\">guidelines allowing ICE to use discretion\u003c/a> about whom to prioritize for detention and deportation. Mayorkas said ICE should focus on people who pose a “current threat” to national security, border security or public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, a \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/599216-judge-blocks-dhs-memo-narrowing-ice-deportation-focus\">federal judge in Ohio partially blocked that guidance\u003c/a>. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Newman, a Trump appointee, ruled the agency can’t ignore people whose criminal convictions subject them to mandatory detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Permanent residency isn't 'real permanence'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Yung’s family fled Cambodia’s killing fields, two older siblings died of starvation and both of his parents were locked up by the Khmer Rouge. When his mother got out, she and the children made their way to a refugee camp and eventually to California.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Terry Honoré, Vithea Yung's sister\"]'We came here with the understanding that we escaped the war and we are American.'[/pullquote]Honoré said her parents didn’t understand that even though they became permanent residents, real permanence depended on becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one ever explained that to us,” she said. “We came here with the understanding that we escaped the war and we are American. Our card says that we are legal residents, you know, permanent residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she’s become a supporter of the Vision Act, hoping others don’t have to go through her brother’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said thousands of people — fully 10% of the state prison population — also are subject to ICE detainers, and few will get the attention Yung’s case has received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as California is relying on ICE to act with decency and compassion, we have a problem, because ICE has a proven track record across administrations of acting with cruelty,” he said. “We need a systemic solution.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Paralyzed in a prison softball accident, Vithea Yung feared he'd be turned over to immigration authorities, rather than released by California prison officials. 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As a Cambodian refugee whose family was shattered by the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, it gave him a sense of security. But at 16, pursued by members of a rival gang, he fired a gun and killed someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung was tried as an adult, convicted of murder and sent to prison with a sentence of 35 years to life. Now 25 years on, the California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/bph/parole-suitability-hearings-overview/what-to-expect-after-a-parole-suitability-hearing/\">parole board has approved Yung’s release\u003c/a>, based on the work he’s done to rehabilitate himself and help fellow incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until late Friday, it seemed as if Yung faced the possibility of being released from prison only to be locked up again, this time by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yung feared he’d be deported to Cambodia, a country his family fled when he was 3 years old. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'As long as California is relying on ICE to act with decency and compassion, we have a problem, because ICE has a proven track record across administrations of acting with cruelty. We need a systemic solution.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Anoop Prasad, lawyer, Asian Law Caucus","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Yung, the stakes were high. In 2017, he suffered a spinal cord injury during a prison softball game and since then has been paralyzed from the neck down, requiring round-the-clock care and assistance with the basic functions of daily living. He lives in a skilled nursing facility in the Los Angeles area that’s under contract with the state prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Friday afternoon, an ICE spokesperson said that an immigration detainer, requesting California prison officials turn Yung over to ICE, had been dropped months earlier, on November 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson, who would not agree to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the case, said ICE makes custody determinations on a case-by-case basis, “considering the merits and factors of each case while adhering to current agency priorities, guidelines and legal mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news came as a surprise to Yung’s supporters, who had held a rally in Los Angeles Friday morning calling on California officials not to cooperate with ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re relieved it was dropped and he’s not going to be transferred to ICE and he’ll receive the care he needs after leaving prison,” said Anoop Prasad, Yung’s lawyer with the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. “But it’s such a nerve-racking process. It shouldn't require community outrage and rallies to get ICE to step in and do the basic, humane thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has a policy of notifying incarcerated people if an immigration detainer is dropped, but that didn’t happen here. Even in recent weeks, Yung’s CDCR counselor had told him the hold was still on file, Prasad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his sister, Yung said he won't feel confident that ICE isn't going to detain him until he sees it in writing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Immigrants funneled from prison to ICE detention\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state prison system hands over hundreds of inmates to ICE each year. Between Jan. 1, 2020, and Nov. 30, 2021, the CDCR made 2,600 transfers to ICE, according to data obtained from the agency by the Asian Law Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And advocates say Yung’s case highlights an injustice: If he had been born in the U.S. or had become a naturalized U.S. citizen, then when he completed his sentence that would have settled his debt to society and he would go free. But as a lawful permanent resident, or “green card” holder, his felony record meant he could be deported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung’s sister Terry Honoré said she was terrified at the thought that her quadriplegic brother could be sent to Cambodia to fend for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just don't know how that would work,” she said. “It was really scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates also feared that Yung’s health could deteriorate in immigration detention, since ICE has been sued over inadequate care for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of medical neglect at baseline in ICE facilities is horrific,” said Prasad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that given how seriously injured Yung is, there’s no plausible argument he could pose a danger to society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Asian Prisoner Support Committee and other advocacy groups are pushing for passage of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.iceoutofca.org/ca-values-act-sb54-408546.html\">Vision Act\u003c/a>, a bill in the state Senate that would block jail and prison officials from honoring ICE detainers for most inmates, like Yung, when they’re released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of people turned out for the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sg_chambita/status/1507435056456880128\">Los Angeles rally Friday\u003c/a> to push for that bill, AB 937, and support Yung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has until April 12 to review Yung’s parole. Unless he moves to block it, Yung will be released from prison and paroled to the care of his family. But advocates want Newsom to go further and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827617/state-lawmakers-urge-newsom-to-stop-transferring-people-in-prison-to-ice-in-pandemic\">stop transfers from California prisons to ICE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, CDCR press secretary Dana Simas said the prison system notifies ICE of anyone they’re holding who might be a foreign national. ICE then determines their immigration status and decides whether to put an immigration “hold” or detainer on the person. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11827388","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“CDCR responds to detainers from all law enforcement agencies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simas did not respond to requests for comment about Yung’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, another Cambodian refugee, Chanthon Bun, was released from San Quentin despite being told that ICE had a detainer for him. But neither ICE nor CDCR explained why \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11827388/cambodian-refugee-leaves-san-quentin-with-covid-19-but-avoids-ice-detention\">he was not transferred to immigration detention\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Should rehabilitation affect deportation decisions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yung is proud of the work he did to become a better person in the two decades before his accident. He enrolled in prison support groups and restorative justice programs, pursued his high school diploma, became a teacher’s aide and joined sports teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tried to rehabilitate myself,” he said in a Zoom interview with KQED. “I took classes. I did everything that it took before I went to my parole board hearing. It shocked them a little bit because I did everything before they even asked me to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yung’s efforts might have played a role in ICE’s decision to revoke the detainer, though the circumstances of that decision remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last September, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/guidelines-civilimmigrationlaw.pdf\">guidelines allowing ICE to use discretion\u003c/a> about whom to prioritize for detention and deportation. Mayorkas said ICE should focus on people who pose a “current threat” to national security, border security or public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Tuesday, a \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/599216-judge-blocks-dhs-memo-narrowing-ice-deportation-focus\">federal judge in Ohio partially blocked that guidance\u003c/a>. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Newman, a Trump appointee, ruled the agency can’t ignore people whose criminal convictions subject them to mandatory detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Permanent residency isn't 'real permanence'\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Yung’s family fled Cambodia’s killing fields, two older siblings died of starvation and both of his parents were locked up by the Khmer Rouge. When his mother got out, she and the children made their way to a refugee camp and eventually to California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We came here with the understanding that we escaped the war and we are American.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Terry Honoré, Vithea Yung's sister","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Honoré said her parents didn’t understand that even though they became permanent residents, real permanence depended on becoming naturalized U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one ever explained that to us,” she said. “We came here with the understanding that we escaped the war and we are American. Our card says that we are legal residents, you know, permanent residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she’s become a supporter of the Vision Act, hoping others don’t have to go through her brother’s experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prasad said thousands of people — fully 10% of the state prison population — also are subject to ICE detainers, and few will get the attention Yung’s case has received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as California is relying on ICE to act with decency and compassion, we have a problem, because ICE has a proven track record across administrations of acting with cruelty,” he said. “We need a systemic solution.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11909454/ice-grants-reprieve-to-incarcerated-man-in-california-prison-who-feared-deportation-to-cambodia","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29909","news_30864","news_1629","news_22883","news_18123","news_16","news_20202","news_23454","news_20463","news_30865"],"featImg":"news_11909464","label":"news"},"news_11881322":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11881322","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11881322","score":null,"sort":[1626396632000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"can-democrats-immigration-reform-plan-succeed-through-budget-reconciliation","title":"Can Democrats' Immigration Reform Plan Succeed Through Budget Reconciliation?","publishDate":1626396632,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As part of their ambitious $3.5 trillion budget plan to support families and spur job growth, top Senate Democrats included an immigration reform provision that could potentially offer a pathway to citizenship to millions of undocumented immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmakers hope to pass the massive spending framework through a budget process called \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/introduction-to-budget-reconciliation\">reconciliation\u003c/a>, which only needs a simple majority in the evenly split Senate. But some observers question whether a citizenship bill could be enacted through a procedure that skirts the possibility of a filibuster in that chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current plan, supported by the White House, would pay for clean energy projects to fight climate change, as well as “human infrastructure” programs including universal pre-kindergarten, community college grants and an expansion of health care for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of including immigration provisions in what is primarily a budget package argue that obtaining legal status is a key that opens opportunities for undocumented people, who are often low-income essential workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lorella Praeli, We Are Home co-chair\"]'We will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship is essential infrastructure for immigrant families. For many, it's a gateway to a driver's license, to health care, to higher education,” said Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, during a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is pushing to pass a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, \"Dreamers\" and other undocumented immigrants as part of the spending bill — a move he said would benefit all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creating new paths to citizenship will grow our economy and improve workplaces for all. And that's exactly the purpose of the infrastructure investments that we are developing,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad budget deal includes about $120 billion to grant green cards to immigrants and fund border management, according to a staffer in Padilla’s office. But details will still be worked out in coming months by the senator and other members of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes after bills to legalize more than 4 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866519/nearly-half-a-million-california-farmworkers-could-gain-legal-status-under-new-bill\">farmworkers\u003c/a>, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878192/senate-democrats-rally-for-dreamers-bill-facing-stiff-gop-opposition\">Dreamers\u003c/a>\" and immigrants eligible for temporary humanitarian protections were approved in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. But those measures would need at least 60 votes to succeed in the Senate, where they face a wall of opposition by Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why for months now, immigrant advocates have pressured Democrats to use reconciliation to adopt immigration reforms that have proven elusive for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our year. We expect — and demand — the inclusion of citizenship for undocumented youth, TPS holders, farmworkers and essential workers in the reconciliation package,” said Lorella Praeli, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearehome.us/about\">We Are Home\u003c/a> campaign.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"More immigration coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, we will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year,” warned Praeli, a formerly undocumented immigrant, adding that Democrats will lose credibility among Latino and immigrant voters if they don’t enact promised reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legalization program would create jobs and increase wages, with major economic benefits to the U.S., according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2021/07/01/501212/pathway-citizenship-economic-growth-budget-reconciliation/\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Davis and the left-leaning Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bill Hoagland, a senior vice president with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said reconciliation is reserved for policies that have a direct budgetary impact — increasing or lowering the federal government’s tax revenue and spending. And the procedure is not intended to make major policy changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a stretch to use this process that was set up to set a fiscal blueprint to take on and make major changes in immigration policy,” said Hoagland, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “I'm not arguing we shouldn't do it. I'm just saying this is not the tool to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether immigration and other Democratic policy ambitions meet the strict requirements of reconciliation will be largely up to Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971793277/who-the-senate-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-a-minimum-wage-increase\">Parliamentarian\u003c/a> Elizabeth MacDonough, whose job it is to interpret chamber rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SenAlexPadilla/status/1415415818444316676\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22264074/poll-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-stimulus-biden\">Polls\u003c/a> show a majority of likely voters support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. An even greater proportion of Americans say \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/\">they favor\u003c/a> providing a permanent legal status for \"Dreamers\" — people who have lived in the U.S. since they were children and who acquired the name base on a never-passed legalization bill called the DREAM Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a carefully crafted immigration measure makes it into a final budget bill, it’s an open question whether all 50 Democratic senators would back it, particularly those from battleground states such as West Virginia and Arizona, said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is such a narrow margin that if two Democratic senators in toss-up, contested states are concerned that they may be seen as pro-amnesty, you could see they may not support it,” Chishti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with strong Republican opposition to a broad immigration reform, he said this budget process is the only viable strategy Democrats and immigrant advocates have this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California Sen. Alex Padilla, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is pushing to include a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, 'Dreamers' and other undocumented immigrants as part of a Senate budget package that could pass with a simple majority and avoid a filibuster.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1626460811,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":905},"headData":{"title":"Can Democrats' Immigration Reform Plan Succeed Through Budget Reconciliation? | KQED","description":"California Sen. 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But some observers question whether a citizenship bill could be enacted through a procedure that skirts the possibility of a filibuster in that chamber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current plan, supported by the White House, would pay for clean energy projects to fight climate change, as well as “human infrastructure” programs including universal pre-kindergarten, community college grants and an expansion of health care for seniors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of including immigration provisions in what is primarily a budget package argue that obtaining legal status is a key that opens opportunities for undocumented people, who are often low-income essential workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lorella Praeli, We Are Home co-chair","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship is essential infrastructure for immigrant families. For many, it's a gateway to a driver's license, to health care, to higher education,” said Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, during a call with reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, is pushing to pass a pathway to citizenship for essential workers, \"Dreamers\" and other undocumented immigrants as part of the spending bill — a move he said would benefit all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creating new paths to citizenship will grow our economy and improve workplaces for all. And that's exactly the purpose of the infrastructure investments that we are developing,” Padilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broad budget deal includes about $120 billion to grant green cards to immigrants and fund border management, according to a staffer in Padilla’s office. But details will still be worked out in coming months by the senator and other members of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes after bills to legalize more than 4 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866519/nearly-half-a-million-california-farmworkers-could-gain-legal-status-under-new-bill\">farmworkers\u003c/a>, \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878192/senate-democrats-rally-for-dreamers-bill-facing-stiff-gop-opposition\">Dreamers\u003c/a>\" and immigrants eligible for temporary humanitarian protections were approved in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year. But those measures would need at least 60 votes to succeed in the Senate, where they face a wall of opposition by Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why for months now, immigrant advocates have pressured Democrats to use reconciliation to adopt immigration reforms that have proven elusive for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our year. We expect — and demand — the inclusion of citizenship for undocumented youth, TPS holders, farmworkers and essential workers in the reconciliation package,” said Lorella Praeli, co-chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wearehome.us/about\">We Are Home\u003c/a> campaign.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"More immigration coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, we will make sure that every elected official knows they will be judged at the voting booth on whether they deliver citizenship for millions this year,” warned Praeli, a formerly undocumented immigrant, adding that Democrats will lose credibility among Latino and immigrant voters if they don’t enact promised reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legalization program would create jobs and increase wages, with major economic benefits to the U.S., according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2021/07/01/501212/pathway-citizenship-economic-growth-budget-reconciliation/\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at UC Davis and the left-leaning Center for American Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bill Hoagland, a senior vice president with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said reconciliation is reserved for policies that have a direct budgetary impact — increasing or lowering the federal government’s tax revenue and spending. And the procedure is not intended to make major policy changes, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be a stretch to use this process that was set up to set a fiscal blueprint to take on and make major changes in immigration policy,” said Hoagland, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee. “I'm not arguing we shouldn't do it. I'm just saying this is not the tool to use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether immigration and other Democratic policy ambitions meet the strict requirements of reconciliation will be largely up to Senate \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/26/971793277/who-the-senate-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-a-minimum-wage-increase\">Parliamentarian\u003c/a> Elizabeth MacDonough, whose job it is to interpret chamber rules.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1415415818444316676"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2021/2/4/22264074/poll-undocumented-immigrants-citizenship-stimulus-biden\">Polls\u003c/a> show a majority of likely voters support a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. An even greater proportion of Americans say \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/17/americans-broadly-support-legal-status-for-immigrants-brought-to-the-u-s-illegally-as-children/\">they favor\u003c/a> providing a permanent legal status for \"Dreamers\" — people who have lived in the U.S. since they were children and who acquired the name base on a never-passed legalization bill called the DREAM Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a carefully crafted immigration measure makes it into a final budget bill, it’s an open question whether all 50 Democratic senators would back it, particularly those from battleground states such as West Virginia and Arizona, said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is such a narrow margin that if two Democratic senators in toss-up, contested states are concerned that they may be seen as pro-amnesty, you could see they may not support it,” Chishti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with strong Republican opposition to a broad immigration reform, he said this budget process is the only viable strategy Democrats and immigrant advocates have this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11881322/can-democrats-immigration-reform-plan-succeed-through-budget-reconciliation","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19112","news_1759","news_22883","news_20415","news_20202","news_22361","news_17968"],"featImg":"news_11881374","label":"news"},"news_11849159":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11849159","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11849159","score":null,"sort":[1614028244000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-citizenship-test-is-longer-and-could-deter-immigrants-from-applying-advocates-say","title":"Biden Administration Scraps Longer, More Difficult Trump-Era Citizenship Test","publishDate":1614028244,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was originally published on Dec. 1, 2020. It was updated Feb. 22, 2021 at 1 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration is discarding a Trump-era civics test that immigrants must pass to become American citizens, claiming the test, which was launched in December 2020, could create unnecessary barriers to naturalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday it is reverting to a 2008 version of the civics test, which the agency said was thoroughly developed during a multiyear period and piloted before its implementation. The reversal is part of a broad review of the naturalization process announced by President Biden last month “to eliminate barriers and make the process more accessible to all eligible individuals,” according to a statement by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates had criticized the 2020 version of the exam, which was longer and potentially more difficult, as a last-ditch effort in the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency to prevent immigrants from gaining the benefits of U.S. citizenship, including the ability to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump’s citizenship test was the product of bigotry and xenophobia, not civics, or a desire to improve the naturalization process,” Melissa Rodgers, who directs programs for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, said in a statement. “We applaud USCIS and the Biden administration for taking this critical step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who filed their application for citizenship between Dec. 1, 2020 and March 1, 2021 will have the option to take either the 2020 civics test or the 2008 version. USCIS said the 2020 test will be phased out on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post from Dec. 1, 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850118/extienden-el-examen-para-la-ciudadania-defensores-de-inmigrantes-temen-que-esto-complique-mas-el-proceso\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting today, new applicants to become U.S. citizens will be required to pass a revised civics test that is longer and potentially more difficult than the previous version that had been in place for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/find-study-materials-and-resources/study-for-the-test\">2020 version\u003c/a> of the civics test could impact an estimated 2.2 million green card holders in California who are eligible to naturalize, the most of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that processes naturalization applications, doubled the length of the oral exam. USCIS officers will now ask citizenship candidates 20 out of 128 possible questions. Applicants must answer 12 questions correctly in order to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"immigration\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the previous version of the test, candidates were asked up to 10 out of 100 questions. Immigrants who filed their applications before Dec. 1 will continue to take that version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said it revised the test to better assess an applicant’s required understanding of U.S. history and civics, and prepare them to participate in American democracy. The exam was last updated in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. citizenship is the most significant immigration benefit our country offers,” said Sharon Rummery, a USCIS spokeswoman. “Preparing for the naturalization test helps aspiring citizens fully understand the meaning and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. This allows them to become successful, assimilated citizens who share the fundamental values that unite all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates denounced the revision as a last-ditch effort by the outgoing Trump administration to hinder immigrants’ ability to gain the benefits of American citizenship, including the right to vote in local, state and federal elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it's a way to discourage people from applying for citizenship,” said Bethzy Garcia, who coordinates naturalization assistance at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (CHIRLA). \"It’s a way to intimidate people. As it is, many of our applicants feel very anxious about going to the test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said CHIRLA helps more than 1,000 people per year with the naturalization process, many of whom are older immigrants who may have limited English skills or trouble memorizing answers. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to understanding U.S. civics fundamentals, candidates for citizenship must be adults who can read and write basic English, and show good moral character, among other \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/citizenship-and-naturalization\">requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, USCIS will continue to provide special consideration for applicants who are 65 or older and who have been U.S. lawful permanent residents for at least 20 years. These applicants may study just 20 questions and take the test in the language of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9 million immigrants are eligible to apply for naturalization, according to \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/eligible-to-naturalize-map/\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California. But many decline to take that step, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2017/06/29/mexican-lawful-immigrants-among-least-likely-to-become-u-s-citizens/\">citing\u003c/a> a lack of English skills and the price tag of the U.S. citizenship application, which is currently $725.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Trump administration tried to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831748/a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees\">increase\u003c/a> the fee to apply for citizenship to up to $1,170, as well as hike the cost of work permits and other immigration benefits. But a federal court in San Francisco blocked the fee increases just days before they were set to go into effect on Oct. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Diego Iñiguez-López, policy and campaigns manager with the National Partnership for New Americans']'It's very consistent with hundreds of anti-immigrant measures that we've seen under consideration.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, applying for citizenship has become more burdensome under President Trump, with USCIS officials requiring more documentation from applicants, such as up to 10 years of travel history instead of five, said Diego Iñiguez-López, policy and campaigns manager with the National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of immigrant rights organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new civics test is another Trump administration policy aiming to prevent immigrants from obtaining U.S. citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very consistent with hundreds of anti-immigrant measures that we've seen under consideration,” Iñiguez-López said. “And it's part of a larger attempt to exclude immigrants from the concepts of democracy and political representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS said it worked in close coordination with community-based organizations and adult educators throughout the revision process. But Iñiguez-López said there was “minimal effort” by the administration to get input from nonprofits and naturalization experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other advocates criticized the phrasing and answers to some questions, including one that asks who a U.S. senator represents. In the previous test, the correct answer was “all people in a state.” Now, applicants must answer “citizens of their state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that question, one, it’s incorrect, and two, it shows the anti-immigrant bias of the Trump administration in the form of the civics test,” Iñiguez-López said. “Senators represent all of the persons in their state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other advocates are asking President-elect Joe Biden to restore the previous test. They also want the Biden administration to take steps to expand access to naturalization by canceling the proposed fee increases and streamlining the citizenship application process to reduce the backlog of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/N400_performancedata_fy2020_qtr3.pdf\">740,000\u003c/a> pending requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday it would be reverting to a shorter 2008 version of the civics test following appeals from immigration advocates, who said the new Trump-era test was unnecessarily difficult and would dissuade many people from applying. 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It was updated Feb. 22, 2021 at 1 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration is discarding a Trump-era civics test that immigrants must pass to become American citizens, claiming the test, which was launched in December 2020, could create unnecessary barriers to naturalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday it is reverting to a 2008 version of the civics test, which the agency said was thoroughly developed during a multiyear period and piloted before its implementation. The reversal is part of a broad review of the naturalization process announced by President Biden last month “to eliminate barriers and make the process more accessible to all eligible individuals,” according to a statement by the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrant advocates had criticized the 2020 version of the exam, which was longer and potentially more difficult, as a last-ditch effort in the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency to prevent immigrants from gaining the benefits of U.S. citizenship, including the ability to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Trump’s citizenship test was the product of bigotry and xenophobia, not civics, or a desire to improve the naturalization process,” Melissa Rodgers, who directs programs for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco, said in a statement. “We applaud USCIS and the Biden administration for taking this critical step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants who filed their application for citizenship between Dec. 1, 2020 and March 1, 2021 will have the option to take either the 2020 civics test or the 2008 version. USCIS said the 2020 test will be phased out on April 19, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post from Dec. 1, 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11850118/extienden-el-examen-para-la-ciudadania-defensores-de-inmigrantes-temen-que-esto-complique-mas-el-proceso\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting today, new applicants to become U.S. citizens will be required to pass a revised civics test that is longer and potentially more difficult than the previous version that had been in place for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/find-study-materials-and-resources/study-for-the-test\">2020 version\u003c/a> of the civics test could impact an estimated 2.2 million green card holders in California who are eligible to naturalize, the most of any state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that processes naturalization applications, doubled the length of the oral exam. USCIS officers will now ask citizenship candidates 20 out of 128 possible questions. Applicants must answer 12 questions correctly in order to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration","label":"more coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the previous version of the test, candidates were asked up to 10 out of 100 questions. Immigrants who filed their applications before Dec. 1 will continue to take that version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said it revised the test to better assess an applicant’s required understanding of U.S. history and civics, and prepare them to participate in American democracy. The exam was last updated in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“U.S. citizenship is the most significant immigration benefit our country offers,” said Sharon Rummery, a USCIS spokeswoman. “Preparing for the naturalization test helps aspiring citizens fully understand the meaning and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. This allows them to become successful, assimilated citizens who share the fundamental values that unite all Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrant advocates denounced the revision as a last-ditch effort by the outgoing Trump administration to hinder immigrants’ ability to gain the benefits of American citizenship, including the right to vote in local, state and federal elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that it's a way to discourage people from applying for citizenship,” said Bethzy Garcia, who coordinates naturalization assistance at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (CHIRLA). \"It’s a way to intimidate people. As it is, many of our applicants feel very anxious about going to the test.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia said CHIRLA helps more than 1,000 people per year with the naturalization process, many of whom are older immigrants who may have limited English skills or trouble memorizing answers. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to understanding U.S. civics fundamentals, candidates for citizenship must be adults who can read and write basic English, and show good moral character, among other \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/citizenship-and-naturalization\">requirements\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, USCIS will continue to provide special consideration for applicants who are 65 or older and who have been U.S. lawful permanent residents for at least 20 years. These applicants may study just 20 questions and take the test in the language of their choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 9 million immigrants are eligible to apply for naturalization, according to \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/eligible-to-naturalize-map/\">estimates\u003c/a> by the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration at the University of Southern California. But many decline to take that step, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2017/06/29/mexican-lawful-immigrants-among-least-likely-to-become-u-s-citizens/\">citing\u003c/a> a lack of English skills and the price tag of the U.S. citizenship application, which is currently $725.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Trump administration tried to dramatically \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831748/a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees\">increase\u003c/a> the fee to apply for citizenship to up to $1,170, as well as hike the cost of work permits and other immigration benefits. But a federal court in San Francisco blocked the fee increases just days before they were set to go into effect on Oct. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's very consistent with hundreds of anti-immigrant measures that we've seen under consideration.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Diego Iñiguez-López, policy and campaigns manager with the National Partnership for New Americans","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, applying for citizenship has become more burdensome under President Trump, with USCIS officials requiring more documentation from applicants, such as up to 10 years of travel history instead of five, said Diego Iñiguez-López, policy and campaigns manager with the National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of immigrant rights organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new civics test is another Trump administration policy aiming to prevent immigrants from obtaining U.S. citizenship, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's very consistent with hundreds of anti-immigrant measures that we've seen under consideration,” Iñiguez-López said. “And it's part of a larger attempt to exclude immigrants from the concepts of democracy and political representation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS said it worked in close coordination with community-based organizations and adult educators throughout the revision process. But Iñiguez-López said there was “minimal effort” by the administration to get input from nonprofits and naturalization experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other advocates criticized the phrasing and answers to some questions, including one that asks who a U.S. senator represents. In the previous test, the correct answer was “all people in a state.” Now, applicants must answer “citizens of their state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With that question, one, it’s incorrect, and two, it shows the anti-immigrant bias of the Trump administration in the form of the civics test,” Iñiguez-López said. “Senators represent all of the persons in their state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and other advocates are asking President-elect Joe Biden to restore the previous test. They also want the Biden administration to take steps to expand access to naturalization by canceling the proposed fee increases and streamlining the citizenship application process to reduce the backlog of more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/N400_performancedata_fy2020_qtr3.pdf\">740,000\u003c/a> pending requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11849159/new-citizenship-test-is-longer-and-could-deter-immigrants-from-applying-advocates-say","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_22883","news_20202","news_26922","news_26537"],"featImg":"news_11849163","label":"news_72"},"news_11857269":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11857269","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11857269","score":null,"sort":[1611787561000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-moment-for-action-is-now-immigrant-advocates-rally-behind-bidens-path-to-citizenship-bill","title":"'The Moment for Action Is Now': Immigrant Advocates Rally Behind Biden's Path to Citizenship Bill","publishDate":1611787561,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California immigrant advocacy groups, along with newly appointed Sen. Alex Padilla, are gearing up to try and push President Biden’s sweeping immigration reform bill through Congress – but the effort will face a tough road in the Senate, where power is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first day in office, Biden announced the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22246670/Fact_Sheet__America_s_Citizenship_Act_of_2021.pdf\">outlines of a bill\u003c/a> that would provide an accelerated path to citizenship for the nearly 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country, a goal long held by immigrant rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a coalition of those groups, including several based in California, launched a major campaign to hold Biden’s feet to the fire and persuade Congress to pass broad-based legalization and refashion the nation’s immigration system to be more humane and welcoming. The \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/2021/01/leading-organizations-join-forces-launch-nationwide-campaign-for-immigrant-justice/\">We Are Home coalition\u003c/a> announced a plan to spend upwards of $10 million on media and grassroots organizing in pursuit of those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sen. Alex Padilla\"]'No state has more at stake in these reforms than the state of California.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups represent farmworkers, domestic workers, Dreamers – young undocumented immigrants who grew up in the U.S. – and others. They are also pushing for the swift reversal of hundreds of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies, which they say fed a poisonous climate of hostility toward immigrants and their families, regardless of legal status. Within hours of being sworn in, Biden began issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856440/bidens-day-1-immigration-reform-plan-sparks-hope-in-california\">executive orders to revoke some of those measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After four years of one attack on immigrants after another, to see the immediate action taken by the Biden-Harris administration ... is a really good starting point,” said Kamal Essaheb, deputy director of the National Immigration Law Center, a nonprofit based in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., that’s a member of the coalition. “Now is the time to start turning the corner and projecting our values as a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to allowing unauthorized immigrants who pay taxes and pass criminal background checks to become citizens in eight years or less, Biden’s bill would also:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce backlogs for legal immigration by ending per-country visa caps\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eliminate the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/unlawful-presence-and-bars-to-admissibility\">3- and 10-year bars\u003c/a>\" that block people who've lived in the U.S. illegally from reentering to become legal residents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prioritize visas for foreign STEM graduates of U.S. universities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Target border enforcement on criminal organizations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase technology at the border and ports of entry\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restore discretion to immigration judges to reduce court backlogs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Address the roots of migration from Central America by investing in economic development and anti-corruption efforts there\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The plan has special resonance in California, which is home to 1 in 4 of all the immigrants in the country, including roughly 2 million unauthorized immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not lost on Padilla, a Democrat who was sworn in last Wednesday to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Harris. Padilla often talks about his own parents, who came to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of opportunity, but who often faced discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No state has more at stake in these reforms than the state of California, just by the numbers,” he said recently. “We’re home to more immigrants, documented and undocumented, than any state in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during the Latino Inaugural 2021: Inheritance, Resilience and Promise event hosted by the Biden Inaugural Committee on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early in January, shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped him for the Senate vacancy, Padilla reached out to California immigrant rights leaders for an early talk about how to roll back Trump’s punitive policies and offer unauthorized people the security of legal status and the chance to become full Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average undocumented immigrant has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2018/11/27/unauthorized-immigrants-are-more-likely-to-be-long-term-residents/\">lived in the U.S. for 15 years\u003c/a>, usually with no way to become a legal resident, according to estimates from the Pew Research Center. And advocates have been pushing for two decades to give them a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major immigration reform bills have been advanced repeatedly over the past 15 years, most with bipartisan support, and none have reached a president’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those so-called comprehensive immigration reform bills combined a path to citizenship and an overhaul of the immigration system with steep increases in immigration enforcement, both at the borders and inside the country, something Republicans sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four years in which Trump focused exclusively on enforcement, there's almost none of that in Biden's proposal. Some Republicans in the Senate are calling it a “mass amnesty.” And Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, who will introduce the bill, acknowledges it is a starting point for negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, Congress is more polarized than ever. Though the House of Representatives is in Democratic control and has approved recent liberal immigration bills, in the Senate, the bill’s backers must overcome the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-is-the-senate-filibuster-and-what-would-it-take-to-eliminate-it/\">filibuster rule\u003c/a>, which would require 60 senators to bring the issue to a vote. Democrats have just 50 seats, plus a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s leading Democrats and many immigrant advocates to strategize about other approaches. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Path to Citizenship as Part of COVID-19 Relief?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rather than invest everything in one big bill, some suggest breaking efforts toward a path to citizenship into smaller chunks, through bills like the American Dream and Promise Act for undocumented youth and people with temporary protected status, or a farmworker bill, both of which have already passed the House with bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights\"]'You can't battle the pandemic and provide relief if essential immigrant undocumented workers are left out.'[/pullquote]Padilla and others are turning their focus to undocumented immigrants working in essential industries – including food production and health care – during the pandemic. They’re calling on the Biden administration to include a path to citizenship for some 5 million essential workers as part of the president’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have deemed so many of them as essential and we have an obligation to treat them as essential,” said Padilla. “It's not an 'either or.' We are pushing for the whole 11 million, but with the urgency of COVID-19 relief, it seems that there is a quick, easy way to get a good number of these folks covered and protected sooner rather than later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"We have deemed so many of them essential and we have an obligation to treat them as essential ... History will remember them as American heroes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus relief bill, which could be debated as early as next week, is a golden opportunity, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want to make sure that everybody understands is, you can't battle the pandemic and provide relief if essential immigrant undocumented workers are left out,\" she said. \"So we want immediately for them to be included and legalized through this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='immigration']Including legalization in the COVID-19 relief bill is significant because Senate Democrats are already taking steps to use an arcane process called \u003ca href=\"https://budget.house.gov/publications/fact-sheet/budget-reconciliation-basics\">budget reconciliation\u003c/a> that would allow them to pass the relief package with a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Jawetz, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington, D.C., think tank, believes the reconciliation process will be key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we know for a fact the president does not approach these negotiations from the perspective of relying upon only Democratic votes to get relief to the public that they need, it is an important tool at the president's disposal,” Jawetz said. “It’s a technique that can be used to get big legislation done when it needs to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jawetz said he and others have been consulting former Senate parliamentarians to understand how to include a tailored legalization program for essential workers in the COVID-19 bill in a way that would pass muster in the reconciliation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there's a strong case to be made that it would comply with the rules,” he said. “The moment for decisive action is now. This is when we can make a really big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that’s working in favor of Congress passing immigration reform: Polling shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/22/bidens_immigration_plans_face_a_warming_public_reception_145089.html\">68% of Americans\u003c/a> – including majorities of Republicans as well as Democrats – favor legalizing undocumented immigrants, and that support has grown markedly since Trump took office four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Seeing an uphill battle for comprehensive legalization, California Sen. Alex Padilla wants to start with undocumented immigrants deemed essential workers in the pandemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1611791038,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1481},"headData":{"title":"'The Moment for Action Is Now': Immigrant Advocates Rally Behind Biden's Path to Citizenship Bill | KQED","description":"Seeing an uphill battle for comprehensive legalization, California Sen. Alex Padilla wants to start with undocumented immigrants deemed essential workers in the pandemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'The Moment for Action Is Now': Immigrant Advocates Rally Behind Biden's Path to Citizenship Bill","datePublished":"2021-01-27T22:46:01.000Z","dateModified":"2021-01-27T23:43:58.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11857269 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11857269","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/01/27/the-moment-for-action-is-now-immigrant-advocates-rally-behind-bidens-path-to-citizenship-bill/","disqusTitle":"'The Moment for Action Is Now': Immigrant Advocates Rally Behind Biden's Path to Citizenship Bill","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/c6690bf0-7506-4266-8c68-acbb012ac1e6/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11857269/the-moment-for-action-is-now-immigrant-advocates-rally-behind-bidens-path-to-citizenship-bill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California immigrant advocacy groups, along with newly appointed Sen. Alex Padilla, are gearing up to try and push President Biden’s sweeping immigration reform bill through Congress – but the effort will face a tough road in the Senate, where power is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his first day in office, Biden announced the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22246670/Fact_Sheet__America_s_Citizenship_Act_of_2021.pdf\">outlines of a bill\u003c/a> that would provide an accelerated path to citizenship for the nearly 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the country, a goal long held by immigrant rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a coalition of those groups, including several based in California, launched a major campaign to hold Biden’s feet to the fire and persuade Congress to pass broad-based legalization and refashion the nation’s immigration system to be more humane and welcoming. The \u003ca href=\"https://unitedwedream.org/2021/01/leading-organizations-join-forces-launch-nationwide-campaign-for-immigrant-justice/\">We Are Home coalition\u003c/a> announced a plan to spend upwards of $10 million on media and grassroots organizing in pursuit of those goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'No state has more at stake in these reforms than the state of California.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sen. Alex Padilla","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The groups represent farmworkers, domestic workers, Dreamers – young undocumented immigrants who grew up in the U.S. – and others. They are also pushing for the swift reversal of hundreds of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies, which they say fed a poisonous climate of hostility toward immigrants and their families, regardless of legal status. Within hours of being sworn in, Biden began issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856440/bidens-day-1-immigration-reform-plan-sparks-hope-in-california\">executive orders to revoke some of those measures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After four years of one attack on immigrants after another, to see the immediate action taken by the Biden-Harris administration ... is a really good starting point,” said Kamal Essaheb, deputy director of the National Immigration Law Center, a nonprofit based in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., that’s a member of the coalition. “Now is the time to start turning the corner and projecting our values as a country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to allowing unauthorized immigrants who pay taxes and pass criminal background checks to become citizens in eight years or less, Biden’s bill would also:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce backlogs for legal immigration by ending per-country visa caps\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Eliminate the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/other-resources/unlawful-presence-and-bars-to-admissibility\">3- and 10-year bars\u003c/a>\" that block people who've lived in the U.S. illegally from reentering to become legal residents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Prioritize visas for foreign STEM graduates of U.S. universities\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Target border enforcement on criminal organizations\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Increase technology at the border and ports of entry\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Restore discretion to immigration judges to reduce court backlogs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Address the roots of migration from Central America by investing in economic development and anti-corruption efforts there\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The plan has special resonance in California, which is home to 1 in 4 of all the immigrants in the country, including roughly 2 million unauthorized immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not lost on Padilla, a Democrat who was sworn in last Wednesday to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Harris. Padilla often talks about his own parents, who came to California from Mexico in the 1960s in search of opportunity, but who often faced discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No state has more at stake in these reforms than the state of California, just by the numbers,” he said recently. “We’re home to more immigrants, documented and undocumented, than any state in the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11857401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11857401\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/01/Padilla-Zoom-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during the Latino Inaugural 2021: Inheritance, Resilience and Promise event hosted by the Biden Inaugural Committee on Jan. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Early in January, shortly after Gov. Gavin Newsom tapped him for the Senate vacancy, Padilla reached out to California immigrant rights leaders for an early talk about how to roll back Trump’s punitive policies and offer unauthorized people the security of legal status and the chance to become full Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average undocumented immigrant has \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2018/11/27/unauthorized-immigrants-are-more-likely-to-be-long-term-residents/\">lived in the U.S. for 15 years\u003c/a>, usually with no way to become a legal resident, according to estimates from the Pew Research Center. And advocates have been pushing for two decades to give them a path to citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major immigration reform bills have been advanced repeatedly over the past 15 years, most with bipartisan support, and none have reached a president’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those so-called comprehensive immigration reform bills combined a path to citizenship and an overhaul of the immigration system with steep increases in immigration enforcement, both at the borders and inside the country, something Republicans sought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four years in which Trump focused exclusively on enforcement, there's almost none of that in Biden's proposal. Some Republicans in the Senate are calling it a “mass amnesty.” And Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, who will introduce the bill, acknowledges it is a starting point for negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today, Congress is more polarized than ever. Though the House of Representatives is in Democratic control and has approved recent liberal immigration bills, in the Senate, the bill’s backers must overcome the \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/policy2020/votervital/what-is-the-senate-filibuster-and-what-would-it-take-to-eliminate-it/\">filibuster rule\u003c/a>, which would require 60 senators to bring the issue to a vote. Democrats have just 50 seats, plus a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s leading Democrats and many immigrant advocates to strategize about other approaches. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Path to Citizenship as Part of COVID-19 Relief?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Rather than invest everything in one big bill, some suggest breaking efforts toward a path to citizenship into smaller chunks, through bills like the American Dream and Promise Act for undocumented youth and people with temporary protected status, or a farmworker bill, both of which have already passed the House with bipartisan support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'You can't battle the pandemic and provide relief if essential immigrant undocumented workers are left out.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Padilla and others are turning their focus to undocumented immigrants working in essential industries – including food production and health care – during the pandemic. They’re calling on the Biden administration to include a path to citizenship for some 5 million essential workers as part of the president’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have deemed so many of them as essential and we have an obligation to treat them as essential,” said Padilla. “It's not an 'either or.' We are pushing for the whole 11 million, but with the urgency of COVID-19 relief, it seems that there is a quick, easy way to get a good number of these folks covered and protected sooner rather than later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"We have deemed so many of them essential and we have an obligation to treat them as essential ... History will remember them as American heroes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coronavirus relief bill, which could be debated as early as next week, is a golden opportunity, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want to make sure that everybody understands is, you can't battle the pandemic and provide relief if essential immigrant undocumented workers are left out,\" she said. \"So we want immediately for them to be included and legalized through this process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"immigration"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Including legalization in the COVID-19 relief bill is significant because Senate Democrats are already taking steps to use an arcane process called \u003ca href=\"https://budget.house.gov/publications/fact-sheet/budget-reconciliation-basics\">budget reconciliation\u003c/a> that would allow them to pass the relief package with a simple majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Jawetz, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington, D.C., think tank, believes the reconciliation process will be key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we know for a fact the president does not approach these negotiations from the perspective of relying upon only Democratic votes to get relief to the public that they need, it is an important tool at the president's disposal,” Jawetz said. “It’s a technique that can be used to get big legislation done when it needs to get done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jawetz said he and others have been consulting former Senate parliamentarians to understand how to include a tailored legalization program for essential workers in the COVID-19 bill in a way that would pass muster in the reconciliation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think there's a strong case to be made that it would comply with the rules,” he said. “The moment for decisive action is now. This is when we can make a really big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One factor that’s working in favor of Congress passing immigration reform: Polling shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/01/22/bidens_immigration_plans_face_a_warming_public_reception_145089.html\">68% of Americans\u003c/a> – including majorities of Republicans as well as Democrats – favor legalizing undocumented immigrants, and that support has grown markedly since Trump took office four years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11857269/the-moment-for-action-is-now-immigrant-advocates-rally-behind-bidens-path-to-citizenship-bill","authors":["259"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19112","news_18538","news_22883","news_27504","news_27698","news_20579","news_20202","news_717","news_27660","news_17968","news_17628","news_244"],"featImg":"news_11857380","label":"news"},"news_11831748":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11831748","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11831748","score":null,"sort":[1596542487000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees","title":"A 'Wealth Test for Citizenship': California Advocates Slam Trump Plan to Hike Fees","publishDate":1596542487,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Immigration advocates in California decried the Trump administration’s decision to sharply increase the cost of U.S. citizenship, work permits and other immigration benefits at a time when non-citizens face particularly devastating job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that oversees lawful immigration to this country, plans to eliminate most of the fee waivers that have helped millions of low-income immigrants afford these petitions in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes, set to go into effect on Oct. 2, will nearly double the naturalization fee to up to $1,170, and start charging asylum seekers $550 to request an initial work permit, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/03/2020-16389/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration#footnote-11-p46792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rule published Monday\u003c/a> after an eight-month review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Melissa Rodgers, New Americans Campaign\"]'We have the Trump administration creating the United States’ first-ever wealth test for citizenship.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a terrible, terrible rule,” said Melissa Rodgers, who directs the New Americans Campaign, a nationwide network of organizations helping immigrants apply for naturalization. “We have the Trump administration creating the United States’ first-ever wealth test for citizenship, and that in a year when more than 50 million residents have filed for unemployment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rule, applicants for lawful permanent residency – also known as a green card – will be charged an additional $550 for work authorization, raising the total cost of the application to at least $1,680.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time ever, asylum seekers will be charged $50 to apply for the protections. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/uscis-new-fees/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three other countries\u003c/a> – Australia, Fiji and Iran – charge fees for asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fee increases come at a time when USCIS is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatening to furlough\u003c/a> more than two-thirds of its staff later this month, unless Congress provides it with a $1.2 billion bailout to sustain operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other federal agencies, USCIS depends on application fees to fund the vast majority of its operations. In its new rule, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS, said getting rid of fee exemptions and raising charges will help the agency recuperate the full costs of adjudicating petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11830463 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44036_GettyImages-1257627413-qut-1020x680.jpg']After DHS proposed most of the changes back in November, many raised concerns eligible immigrants would be discouraged or priced out from U.S. citizenship and other petitions. But DHS largely dismissed those public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DHS believes that immigration to the United States remains attractive to millions of individuals around the world and that its benefits continue to outweigh the costs noted by the commenters,” according to the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, more than \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/eligible-to-naturalize-map/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2.2 million immigrants\u003c/a> are eligible to become U.S. citizens, the most of any state nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current cost of applying, $725, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660853/immigrants-seek-stability-of-u-s-citizenship-but-cost-is-often-a-barrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is a barrier\u003c/a> to many low-income immigrants who are eligible to naturalize as American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS may waive the fees associated with processing an application if the individual proves they are unable to pay. Between 2013 and 2016, the agency approved 2 million requests for fee waivers, foregoing more than $1 billion in revenue, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/USCIS%20-%20Fee%20Waiver%20Policies%20and%20Data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rule, only victims of domestic violence or severe human trafficking crimes and other vulnerable populations who are very low income will be eligible for fee waivers. Green card, naturalization and other applicants will no longer have the option of fee exemptions regardless of their income level, while facing dramatically higher charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increases are sending a really loud message that there is a paywall to receive immigration benefits,” said Elena Fairley, programs director at Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit in San Francisco that provided 0% interest loans to hundreds of people to apply for U.S. citizenship last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that combined with other policies from the current administration, is making it exceedingly difficult for people to become citizens in this country and participate fully,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairley said her organization expects more immigrants will need financial help to afford application fees, but she anticipates raising funds to cover those loans will become more difficult because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants have faced deeper job cuts than U.S.-born workers during the COVID-19 recession: a 19% drop in employment compared to 12%, according to the Pew Research Center. In California, UC Merced researchers estimate 688,000 non-citizens lost jobs during the first weeks of the pandemic, with the highest impact among immigrant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A rule set to go into effect on Oct. 2 will nearly double the naturalization fee to up to $1,170, and start charging asylum seekers $500 to request a work permit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596583785,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":767},"headData":{"title":"A 'Wealth Test for Citizenship': California Advocates Slam Trump Plan to Hike Fees | KQED","description":"A new federal rule is set to nearly double the naturalization fee to up to $1,170, and start charging asylum seekers $500 to request a work permit.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A 'Wealth Test for Citizenship': California Advocates Slam Trump Plan to Hike Fees","datePublished":"2020-08-04T12:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2020-08-04T23:29:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11831748 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11831748","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/04/a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees/","disqusTitle":"A 'Wealth Test for Citizenship': California Advocates Slam Trump Plan to Hike Fees","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4c787d96-9588-4c76-8f98-ac0d0113e7c1/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11831748/a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Immigration advocates in California decried the Trump administration’s decision to sharply increase the cost of U.S. citizenship, work permits and other immigration benefits at a time when non-citizens face particularly devastating job losses because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that oversees lawful immigration to this country, plans to eliminate most of the fee waivers that have helped millions of low-income immigrants afford these petitions in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes, set to go into effect on Oct. 2, will nearly double the naturalization fee to up to $1,170, and start charging asylum seekers $550 to request an initial work permit, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/03/2020-16389/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration#footnote-11-p46792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new rule published Monday\u003c/a> after an eight-month review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We have the Trump administration creating the United States’ first-ever wealth test for citizenship.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Melissa Rodgers, New Americans Campaign","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a terrible, terrible rule,” said Melissa Rodgers, who directs the New Americans Campaign, a nationwide network of organizations helping immigrants apply for naturalization. “We have the Trump administration creating the United States’ first-ever wealth test for citizenship, and that in a year when more than 50 million residents have filed for unemployment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rule, applicants for lawful permanent residency – also known as a green card – will be charged an additional $550 for work authorization, raising the total cost of the application to at least $1,680.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time ever, asylum seekers will be charged $50 to apply for the protections. Only \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/politics/uscis-new-fees/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three other countries\u003c/a> – Australia, Fiji and Iran – charge fees for asylum seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fee increases come at a time when USCIS is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatening to furlough\u003c/a> more than two-thirds of its staff later this month, unless Congress provides it with a $1.2 billion bailout to sustain operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other federal agencies, USCIS depends on application fees to fund the vast majority of its operations. In its new rule, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS, said getting rid of fee exemptions and raising charges will help the agency recuperate the full costs of adjudicating petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11830463","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44036_GettyImages-1257627413-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After DHS proposed most of the changes back in November, many raised concerns eligible immigrants would be discouraged or priced out from U.S. citizenship and other petitions. But DHS largely dismissed those public comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“DHS believes that immigration to the United States remains attractive to millions of individuals around the world and that its benefits continue to outweigh the costs noted by the commenters,” according to the rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, more than \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/csii/eligible-to-naturalize-map/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2.2 million immigrants\u003c/a> are eligible to become U.S. citizens, the most of any state nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current cost of applying, $725, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660853/immigrants-seek-stability-of-u-s-citizenship-but-cost-is-often-a-barrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is a barrier\u003c/a> to many low-income immigrants who are eligible to naturalize as American citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS may waive the fees associated with processing an application if the individual proves they are unable to pay. Between 2013 and 2016, the agency approved 2 million requests for fee waivers, foregoing more than $1 billion in revenue, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/USCIS%20-%20Fee%20Waiver%20Policies%20and%20Data.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rule, only victims of domestic violence or severe human trafficking crimes and other vulnerable populations who are very low income will be eligible for fee waivers. Green card, naturalization and other applicants will no longer have the option of fee exemptions regardless of their income level, while facing dramatically higher charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The increases are sending a really loud message that there is a paywall to receive immigration benefits,” said Elena Fairley, programs director at Mission Asset Fund, a nonprofit in San Francisco that provided 0% interest loans to hundreds of people to apply for U.S. citizenship last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that combined with other policies from the current administration, is making it exceedingly difficult for people to become citizens in this country and participate fully,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairley said her organization expects more immigrants will need financial help to afford application fees, but she anticipates raising funds to cover those loans will become more difficult because of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants have faced deeper job cuts than U.S.-born workers during the COVID-19 recession: a 19% drop in employment compared to 12%, according to the Pew Research Center. In California, UC Merced researchers estimate 688,000 non-citizens lost jobs during the first weeks of the pandemic, with the highest impact among immigrant women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11831748/a-wealth-test-for-citizenship-california-advocates-slam-trump-plan-to-hike-fees","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_23087","news_23653","news_18538","news_22883","news_1323","news_27626","news_20202","news_22530","news_26537"],"featImg":"news_11831756","label":"news"},"news_11830733":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11830733","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11830733","score":null,"sort":[1595937661000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"citizenship-backlog-could-prevent-hundreds-of-thousands-from-voting","title":"Citizenship Backlog Could Prevent Hundreds of Thousands From Voting","publishDate":1595937661,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Magdalena Olvera dreamed of becoming a U.S. citizen for years. At age 7, her mother brought her from Mexico to live in the Bay Area. Both were undocumented, but they were able to legalize their immigration status in 2012 after her mother married a man who was able to sponsor them because he was a legal resident with a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely since I became a lawful permanent resident, I just couldn’t wait to become a citizen,” Olvera said, who’s now 25 years old. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='— Magdalena Olvera']'I was just really excited to finally be able to vote and to have a voice in the election. And not just for me, but also for the people who cannot.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Olvera was required to wait another five years to be eligible for naturalization. Finally, last August, she submitted her application to the federal agency that processes such petitions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She believed that turning in her application more than a year before the November elections would give her plenty of time to naturalize and then register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really excited to finally be able to vote and to have a voice in the election. And not just for me, but also for the people who cannot,” Olvera, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Olvera, and hundreds of thousands of other lawful immigrants applying to become American citizens, may be shut out on Election Day because of massive delays at USCIS, according to analysts. Those delays are expected to get a lot worse if the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\">furloughs more than two-thirds of its staff\u003c/a> later this summer, as officials plan to do unless Congress intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magdalena Olvera, an immigration legal assistant, works at her home office on July 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of March — the month the pandemic was declared — more than 700,000 people had \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/N400_performancedata_fy2020_qtr2.pdf\">pending naturalization applications\u003c/a> with USCIS. About 20% of them, including Olvera, were in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to fears of COVID-19 transmission, the agency closed its offices to the public on March 18 and canceled naturalization interviews. Offices \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/uscis-office-closings\">began reopening\u003c/a> June 4, but some remain shuttered. And although USCIS has resumed in-person services, it is not operating at full capacity because of social distancing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has focused on rescheduling oath ceremonies for most of the 110,000 immigrants who had already been approved in March, said USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our top priority has been to resume naturalization ceremonies for those whose ceremonies were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Collins said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the 700,000 immigrants awaiting approval in March are likely still waiting, and the backlog may have grown since then, although USCIS hasn’t released up-to-date statistics. [aside tag=\"immigration,uscis\" label=\"more coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the average processing time for a citizenship petition was 8.6 months — up from 5.6 months in 2016. Under normal circumstances, Olvera would likely be an American by now. But \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">processing times\u003c/a> have skyrocketed — taking up to 20 months at the USCIS office in San Francisco, and even longer in some other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven't been scheduled for an interview yet. I don't think that it might happen this year,” Olvera said, a legal assistant at an immigration law office, who also said more of her clients have been rejected for asylum and other benefits under President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel pretty angry and disempowered,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and the cost of applying for citizenship — which is set to increase nearly 40% to $1,170 in the fall — are motivating more people to try to naturalize now, said Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at UC Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the delays at USCIS may prevent as many as half a million immigrants from becoming voters by November — and that could impact the presidential election in battleground states such as Florida and Arizona, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly naturalized citizens aren’t likely to affect the presidential outcome in deep blue California, but they could tip the election in close congressional races, including in the Fresno area, where freshman Democratic Rep. TJ Cox is trying to hold on to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more dramatic impact will be seen in local races and congressional races where you have smaller electorates and adding a few thousand people one way or another to a group of potential voters could really make a difference,” DeSipio said. [pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='— Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at UC Irvine']'It's violating the compact that we have with immigrants in U.S. society that if you play by the rules ... we’ll give (you) a fair hearing.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current naturalization delays could lengthen still further if USCIS \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\">furloughs\u003c/a> more than two-thirds of its staff — as officials have warned they’ll do on Aug. 30 unless Congress provides a $1.2 billion bailout to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSipio said the furloughs, which would impact 2,300 USCIS employees in California, could mean immigrants will wait more than three years to become American citizens. By that point, some applicants may have died or given up on the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, that's criminal, really,” he said. “It's violating the compact that we have with immigrants in U.S. society that if you play by the rules ... we’ll give (you) a fair hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor in the delays is that applying for citizenship has become more burdensome under the Trump administration, in part because USCIS officials have increased vetting and scrutiny for each petition, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/changing-uscis-naturalization-procedures\">report\u003c/a> by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magdalena Olvera, an immigration legal assistant, looks at an Application for Naturalization at her home office on July 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey of more than 100 naturalization service providers found evidence that naturalization interviews have increased in length, and that the agency often requires applicants to submit additional documentation proving tax compliance and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just that it's taking longer. It's more difficult and frustrating,” said Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy Institute, and the report’s lead author. “And it's more intimidating. It may intimidate people from applying because the process has become harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, the USCIS spokeswoman, said the agency reached an 11-year high in new oaths of citizenship in 2019, and she said the agency aimed to protect the integrity of the immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ensuring that candidates for citizenship are well-vetted and meet all statutory and regulatory requirements for naturalization is a standard on which USCIS cannot and will not waver,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another green card holder waiting to become a citizen is Ivan, a 40-year-old asylee from Mexico, who submitted his application in the spring of 2019. He requested KQED withhold his last name because he worried that speaking publicly about his petition might jeopardize it. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivan, who’s a social worker at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, said he hopes to encourage other eligible immigrants in San Francisco to naturalize. And he wants to have a say in the political process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to join citizens to vote so that my voice is there, too,” Ivan said. “It’s one of the ways that I can better support my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivan said his naturalization interview was canceled in March, but he hopes it will be rescheduled soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s before the election, nice. If not, that’s OK, I’ll have to wait,” Ivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olvera, the legal assistant, was less forgiving. She said she won’t feel secure until she becomes an American, especially under this administration. She worries her green card could be taken away, and avoids participating in protests for fear an arrest by police could lead to problems with immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just always in the back of my head that I’m not a citizen and that my stay here may not be permanent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In past elections, Olvera volunteered at polling places. She plans to do so again if she can’t naturalize before November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really important for me to participate,” she said. “If I can't vote, I guess I can participate by helping other people vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Naturalization wait times are growing with the pandemic and restrictive Trump-era policies, and could leave many immigrants out on Election Day.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1595982315,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1489},"headData":{"title":"Citizenship Backlog Could Prevent Hundreds of Thousands From Voting | KQED","description":"Naturalization wait times are growing with the pandemic and restrictive Trump-era policies, and could leave many immigrants out on Election Day.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Citizenship Backlog Could Prevent Hundreds of Thousands From Voting","datePublished":"2020-07-28T12:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2020-07-29T00:25:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11830733 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11830733","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/07/28/citizenship-backlog-could-prevent-hundreds-of-thousands-from-voting/","disqusTitle":"Citizenship Backlog Could Prevent Hundreds of Thousands From Voting","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/003b2b77-72f6-4e96-8e44-ac05010cb6d9/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11830733/citizenship-backlog-could-prevent-hundreds-of-thousands-from-voting","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Magdalena Olvera dreamed of becoming a U.S. citizen for years. At age 7, her mother brought her from Mexico to live in the Bay Area. Both were undocumented, but they were able to legalize their immigration status in 2012 after her mother married a man who was able to sponsor them because he was a legal resident with a green card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Definitely since I became a lawful permanent resident, I just couldn’t wait to become a citizen,” Olvera said, who’s now 25 years old. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I was just really excited to finally be able to vote and to have a voice in the election. And not just for me, but also for the people who cannot.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"— Magdalena Olvera","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Olvera was required to wait another five years to be eligible for naturalization. Finally, last August, she submitted her application to the federal agency that processes such petitions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She believed that turning in her application more than a year before the November elections would give her plenty of time to naturalize and then register to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really excited to finally be able to vote and to have a voice in the election. And not just for me, but also for the people who cannot,” Olvera, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Olvera, and hundreds of thousands of other lawful immigrants applying to become American citizens, may be shut out on Election Day because of massive delays at USCIS, according to analysts. Those delays are expected to get a lot worse if the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\">furloughs more than two-thirds of its staff\u003c/a> later this summer, as officials plan to do unless Congress intervenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830767\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44047_002_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magdalena Olvera, an immigration legal assistant, works at her home office on July 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the end of March — the month the pandemic was declared — more than 700,000 people had \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/N400_performancedata_fy2020_qtr2.pdf\">pending naturalization applications\u003c/a> with USCIS. About 20% of them, including Olvera, were in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to fears of COVID-19 transmission, the agency closed its offices to the public on March 18 and canceled naturalization interviews. Offices \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/uscis-office-closings\">began reopening\u003c/a> June 4, but some remain shuttered. And although USCIS has resumed in-person services, it is not operating at full capacity because of social distancing requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has focused on rescheduling oath ceremonies for most of the 110,000 immigrants who had already been approved in March, said USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our top priority has been to resume naturalization ceremonies for those whose ceremonies were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Collins said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the 700,000 immigrants awaiting approval in March are likely still waiting, and the backlog may have grown since then, although USCIS hasn’t released up-to-date statistics. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"immigration,uscis","label":"more coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the average processing time for a citizenship petition was 8.6 months — up from 5.6 months in 2016. Under normal circumstances, Olvera would likely be an American by now. But \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/\">processing times\u003c/a> have skyrocketed — taking up to 20 months at the USCIS office in San Francisco, and even longer in some other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven't been scheduled for an interview yet. I don't think that it might happen this year,” Olvera said, a legal assistant at an immigration law office, who also said more of her clients have been rejected for asylum and other benefits under President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel pretty angry and disempowered,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and the cost of applying for citizenship — which is set to increase nearly 40% to $1,170 in the fall — are motivating more people to try to naturalize now, said Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at UC Irvine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the delays at USCIS may prevent as many as half a million immigrants from becoming voters by November — and that could impact the presidential election in battleground states such as Florida and Arizona, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly naturalized citizens aren’t likely to affect the presidential outcome in deep blue California, but they could tip the election in close congressional races, including in the Fresno area, where freshman Democratic Rep. TJ Cox is trying to hold on to his seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The more dramatic impact will be seen in local races and congressional races where you have smaller electorates and adding a few thousand people one way or another to a group of potential voters could really make a difference,” DeSipio said. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's violating the compact that we have with immigrants in U.S. society that if you play by the rules ... we’ll give (you) a fair hearing.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"— Louis DeSipio, professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at UC Irvine","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current naturalization delays could lengthen still further if USCIS \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830463/federal-citizenship-agency-delays-furloughs-for-two-thirds-of-its-staff\">furloughs\u003c/a> more than two-thirds of its staff — as officials have warned they’ll do on Aug. 30 unless Congress provides a $1.2 billion bailout to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSipio said the furloughs, which would impact 2,300 USCIS employees in California, could mean immigrants will wait more than three years to become American citizens. By that point, some applicants may have died or given up on the process, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, that's criminal, really,” he said. “It's violating the compact that we have with immigrants in U.S. society that if you play by the rules ... we’ll give (you) a fair hearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another factor in the delays is that applying for citizenship has become more burdensome under the Trump administration, in part because USCIS officials have increased vetting and scrutiny for each petition, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/changing-uscis-naturalization-procedures\">report\u003c/a> by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11830768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11830768\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44046_001_KQED_SanPablo_NaturalizationApplication_07242020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magdalena Olvera, an immigration legal assistant, looks at an Application for Naturalization at her home office on July 24, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey of more than 100 naturalization service providers found evidence that naturalization interviews have increased in length, and that the agency often requires applicants to submit additional documentation proving tax compliance and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not just that it's taking longer. It's more difficult and frustrating,” said Randy Capps, director of research for U.S. programs at the Migration Policy Institute, and the report’s lead author. “And it's more intimidating. It may intimidate people from applying because the process has become harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins, the USCIS spokeswoman, said the agency reached an 11-year high in new oaths of citizenship in 2019, and she said the agency aimed to protect the integrity of the immigration system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ensuring that candidates for citizenship are well-vetted and meet all statutory and regulatory requirements for naturalization is a standard on which USCIS cannot and will not waver,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another green card holder waiting to become a citizen is Ivan, a 40-year-old asylee from Mexico, who submitted his application in the spring of 2019. He requested KQED withhold his last name because he worried that speaking publicly about his petition might jeopardize it. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivan, who’s a social worker at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center, said he hopes to encourage other eligible immigrants in San Francisco to naturalize. And he wants to have a say in the political process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to join citizens to vote so that my voice is there, too,” Ivan said. “It’s one of the ways that I can better support my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ivan said his naturalization interview was canceled in March, but he hopes it will be rescheduled soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s before the election, nice. If not, that’s OK, I’ll have to wait,” Ivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olvera, the legal assistant, was less forgiving. She said she won’t feel secure until she becomes an American, especially under this administration. She worries her green card could be taken away, and avoids participating in protests for fear an arrest by police could lead to problems with immigration authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just always in the back of my head that I’m not a citizen and that my stay here may not be permanent,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In past elections, Olvera volunteered at polling places. She plans to do so again if she can’t naturalize before November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really important for me to participate,” she said. “If I can't vote, I guess I can participate by helping other people vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11830733/citizenship-backlog-could-prevent-hundreds-of-thousands-from-voting","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_27540","news_22883","news_27350","news_27504","news_27626","news_20202","news_28316","news_27660","news_22530","news_2027"],"featImg":"news_11830766","label":"news_72"},"news_11794002":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11794002","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11794002","score":null,"sort":[1578169706000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"homeland-security-to-share-records-with-census-bureau-to-produce-citizenship-data","title":"Homeland Security to Share Records with Census Bureau to Produce Citizenship Data","publishDate":1578169706,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to share certain government records from its databases to help the Census Bureau produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person living in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS quietly announced the data-sharing agreement in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-dhs079-sharingwithcensus-december2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a regulatory document\u003c/a> posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsallpia-079-department-homeland-security-dhs-immigration-related-information-sharing\">its website\u003c/a> on Dec. 27. It marks the latest development in the Trump administration's ongoing effort to carry out the executive order President Trump issued in July after courts blocked the administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year to keep the citizenship question off, President Trump said in the executive order that releasing citizenship data based on existing records would allow states to redraw voting districts using the number of eligible voters rather than all residents in an area — a method of redistricting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/728232221/gop-redistricting-strategist-played-role-in-push-for-census-citizenship-question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a prominent GOP strategist concluded\u003c/a> would politically \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6077735-May-30-2019-Exhibit.html#document/p63/a504019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">benefit Republicans and non-Hispanic white people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag=\"census\" label=\"More Census Stories\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DHS document, which was first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://fcw.com/articles/2020/01/02/dhs-census-data-sharing.aspx?m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Computer Week\u003c/a>, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is sharing personal information about naturalized U.S. citizens and green card holders from records going back to as early as 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent records dating to 2013 from Customs and Border Protection, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will provide the Census Bureau with data such as noncitizens' full names, birth dates, addresses, Social Security numbers and alien registration numbers. CBP is also sharing the travel histories of visitors to the U.S., including those who have overstayed their visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal law\u003c/a> restricts the release of immigration records about survivors of human trafficking and of certain other crimes who have applied for special visas, as well as survivors of domestic abuse who have applied for immigration benefits under the Violence Against Women Act. Still, USCIS has asked for permission to release to the Census Bureau data about refugees and asylum-seekers, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Outreach/Notes%20from%20Previous%20Engagements/2012/December%202012/Asylum-ConfidentialityFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">records generally cannot be shared\u003c/a> without their consent or a waiver signed by the Homeland Security secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau plans to use the data it does receive to try to match the DHS records with those from other agencies about the same person. Each individual's records would then be used in a statistical model designed to produce anonymized estimates of U.S. citizens and noncitizens living in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear, however, whether this process will be able to accurately determine the citizenship status of individuals. \"No one source of citizenship information is complete and up-to-date,\" the DHS document — known as a privacy impact assessment — warns, while noting that misidentified individuals would receive \"no adverse impact\" because the efforts are only for \"statistical purposes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Latinx community groups represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC are currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760356414/latinx-advocacy-groups-sue-to-block-citizenship-data-release-by-trump-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suing the administration\u003c/a>, arguing that its data efforts are part of a conspiracy to stop Latinx communities, noncitizens and other immigrants from receiving fair political representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration has spent months trying to amass citizenship records from other federal agencies, including \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p672/a428455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State Department and the Social Security Administration\u003c/a>, plus states. In November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/20/781373128/nebraska-1st-to-say-it-will-share-drivers-license-records-with-census-bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nebraska became the first state\u003c/a> to agree to share its driver's license records with the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]'The bureau plans to use the data it does receive to try to match the DHS records with those from other agencies about the same person. Each individual's records would then be used in a statistical model designed to produce anonymized estimates of U.S. citizens and noncitizens living in the country.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data DHS provides \"will not be used to make programmatic or administrative enforcement decisions,\" according to the document the department released last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the document says DHS is providing the records as required by Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-collecting-information-citizenship-status-connection-decennial-census/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> to help determine numbers of three specific groups: \"citizens, lawfully present non-citizens, and unauthorized immigrants in the United States during the decennial census.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump's order does reference a need for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6189423-Executive-Order.html#document/p6/a542049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"more reliable\" count of unauthorized immigrants\u003c/a> to better inform public policy about immigration and eligibility for public benefits, the Census Bureau has not publicly acknowledged any plans to create such an estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During public meetings in September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzxTb2o-qaU&feature=youtu.be&t=9455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Census Bureau's chief scientist, John Abowd\u003c/a>, confirmed that the executive order — along with a filing to the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which reviews all federal government efforts to collect information — \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6386176-Census-Bureau-Citizenship-Data-Research-and.html#document/p6/a542039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"commit\" the bureau\u003c/a> to releasing citizenship data by the end of March 2021, in time for the next round of redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau's public information office has not responded to NPR's questions about whether it's planning to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants in response to the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/749930756/do-trump-officials-plan-to-break-centuries-of-precedent-in-divvying-up-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fighting off a lawsuit\u003c/a> by the state of Alabama and Rep. Mo Brooks, a Republican from that state, which is arguing in court to get unauthorized immigrants excluded from census numbers used to determine the distribution of congressional seats among the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the bureau and the Department of Homeland Security's office of public affairs have also not responded to NPR's questions about when the new data-sharing agreement was signed and if any data have been transferred yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for DHS to share data with the bureau through this agreement have been in negotiations since early 2018, when the bureau officials began scrambling to respond to the Trump administration's last-minute request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census Bureau officials have long advocated for the administration to rely on existing government records as a way to produce citizenship information that the bureau's researchers say is more accurate and less expensive than collecting self-reported responses to a census question. In 2018, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved both adding the question to census forms and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p1328/a511872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directed the bureau to request records\u003c/a> from other agencies and state governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the DHS document lays out a number of risks involved with sharing data with the bureau, including a concern that doing so is \"not compatible with the original purpose\" of DHS agencies collecting the information. It also flags the risk that the people whose information DHS is sharing with the Census Bureau may not want that to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document says, however, these risks \"cannot be mitigated\" and that Trump's executive order requires DHS to comply with the bureau's data requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some privacy advocates have raised their own concerns about the potential misuse of data, especially at a time of increased immigration enforcement. Using the information to try to identify noncitizens \"implicates fundamental due process rights and will impact both citizens and non-citizens,\" wrote Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epic.org/privacy/census/EPIC-HCOGR-Census-July2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July letter to leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of those concerns, it's not clear exactly how accurate the data produced using the existing records will be. The DHS document acknowledges it is \"notoriously difficult\" to use data to determine a person's current immigration status because \"individuals can have multiple immigration statuses through their lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because DHS is providing information at a point in time,\" the document says, \"it is reasonable to believe that eventually data accuracy issues may arise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=To+Produce+Citizenship+Data%2C+Homeland+Security+To+Share+Records+With+Census+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Department of Homeland Security has finalized an agreement to share records that the Census Bureau says will help it produce data about the citizenship status of every person living in the U.S.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1578243339,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1256},"headData":{"title":"Homeland Security to Share Records with Census Bureau to Produce Citizenship Data | KQED","description":"The Department of Homeland Security has finalized an agreement to share records that the Census Bureau says will help it produce data about the citizenship status of every person living in the U.S.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Homeland Security to Share Records with Census Bureau to Produce Citizenship Data","datePublished":"2020-01-04T20:28:26.000Z","dateModified":"2020-01-05T16:55:39.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11794002 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11794002","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/01/04/homeland-security-to-share-records-with-census-bureau-to-produce-citizenship-data/","disqusTitle":"Homeland Security to Share Records with Census Bureau to Produce Citizenship Data","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Bryan R. Smith","nprByline":"Hansi Lo Wang","nprImageAgency":"AFP via Getty Images","nprStoryId":"793325772","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=793325772&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793325772/to-produce-citizenship-data-homeland-security-to-share-records-with-census?ft=nprml&f=793325772","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:06:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:48:43 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sat, 04 Jan 2020 13:06:59 -0500","path":"/news/11794002/homeland-security-to-share-records-with-census-bureau-to-produce-citizenship-data","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has agreed to share certain government records from its databases to help the Census Bureau produce data about the U.S. citizenship status of every person living in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DHS quietly announced the data-sharing agreement in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-dhs079-sharingwithcensus-december2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a regulatory document\u003c/a> posted on \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhsallpia-079-department-homeland-security-dhs-immigration-related-information-sharing\">its website\u003c/a> on Dec. 27. It marks the latest development in the Trump administration's ongoing effort to carry out the executive order President Trump issued in July after courts blocked the administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year to keep the citizenship question off, President Trump said in the executive order that releasing citizenship data based on existing records would allow states to redraw voting districts using the number of eligible voters rather than all residents in an area — a method of redistricting that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/30/728232221/gop-redistricting-strategist-played-role-in-push-for-census-citizenship-question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a prominent GOP strategist concluded\u003c/a> would politically \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6077735-May-30-2019-Exhibit.html#document/p63/a504019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">benefit Republicans and non-Hispanic white people\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"census","label":"More Census Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the DHS document, which was first reported by \u003ca href=\"https://fcw.com/articles/2020/01/02/dhs-census-data-sharing.aspx?m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Computer Week\u003c/a>, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is sharing personal information about naturalized U.S. citizens and green card holders from records going back to as early as 1973.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recent records dating to 2013 from Customs and Border Protection, as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will provide the Census Bureau with data such as noncitizens' full names, birth dates, addresses, Social Security numbers and alien registration numbers. CBP is also sharing the travel histories of visitors to the U.S., including those who have overstayed their visas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal law\u003c/a> restricts the release of immigration records about survivors of human trafficking and of certain other crimes who have applied for special visas, as well as survivors of domestic abuse who have applied for immigration benefits under the Violence Against Women Act. Still, USCIS has asked for permission to release to the Census Bureau data about refugees and asylum-seekers, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Outreach/Notes%20from%20Previous%20Engagements/2012/December%202012/Asylum-ConfidentialityFactSheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">records generally cannot be shared\u003c/a> without their consent or a waiver signed by the Homeland Security secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau plans to use the data it does receive to try to match the DHS records with those from other agencies about the same person. Each individual's records would then be used in a statistical model designed to produce anonymized estimates of U.S. citizens and noncitizens living in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear, however, whether this process will be able to accurately determine the citizenship status of individuals. \"No one source of citizenship information is complete and up-to-date,\" the DHS document — known as a privacy impact assessment — warns, while noting that misidentified individuals would receive \"no adverse impact\" because the efforts are only for \"statistical purposes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Latinx community groups represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC are currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760356414/latinx-advocacy-groups-sue-to-block-citizenship-data-release-by-trump-officials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suing the administration\u003c/a>, arguing that its data efforts are part of a conspiracy to stop Latinx communities, noncitizens and other immigrants from receiving fair political representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the administration has spent months trying to amass citizenship records from other federal agencies, including \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p672/a428455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the State Department and the Social Security Administration\u003c/a>, plus states. In November, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/20/781373128/nebraska-1st-to-say-it-will-share-drivers-license-records-with-census-bureau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nebraska became the first state\u003c/a> to agree to share its driver's license records with the Census Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'The bureau plans to use the data it does receive to try to match the DHS records with those from other agencies about the same person. Each individual's records would then be used in a statistical model designed to produce anonymized estimates of U.S. citizens and noncitizens living in the country.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data DHS provides \"will not be used to make programmatic or administrative enforcement decisions,\" according to the document the department released last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the document says DHS is providing the records as required by Trump's \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-collecting-information-citizenship-status-connection-decennial-census/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order\u003c/a> to help determine numbers of three specific groups: \"citizens, lawfully present non-citizens, and unauthorized immigrants in the United States during the decennial census.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Trump's order does reference a need for a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6189423-Executive-Order.html#document/p6/a542049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"more reliable\" count of unauthorized immigrants\u003c/a> to better inform public policy about immigration and eligibility for public benefits, the Census Bureau has not publicly acknowledged any plans to create such an estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During public meetings in September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzxTb2o-qaU&feature=youtu.be&t=9455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Census Bureau's chief scientist, John Abowd\u003c/a>, confirmed that the executive order — along with a filing to the White House's Office of Management and Budget, which reviews all federal government efforts to collect information — \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6386176-Census-Bureau-Citizenship-Data-Research-and.html#document/p6/a542039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\"commit\" the bureau\u003c/a> to releasing citizenship data by the end of March 2021, in time for the next round of redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau's public information office has not responded to NPR's questions about whether it's planning to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants in response to the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bureau is currently \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/749930756/do-trump-officials-plan-to-break-centuries-of-precedent-in-divvying-up-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fighting off a lawsuit\u003c/a> by the state of Alabama and Rep. Mo Brooks, a Republican from that state, which is arguing in court to get unauthorized immigrants excluded from census numbers used to determine the distribution of congressional seats among the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the bureau and the Department of Homeland Security's office of public affairs have also not responded to NPR's questions about when the new data-sharing agreement was signed and if any data have been transferred yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for DHS to share data with the bureau through this agreement have been in negotiations since early 2018, when the bureau officials began scrambling to respond to the Trump administration's last-minute request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census Bureau officials have long advocated for the administration to rely on existing government records as a way to produce citizenship information that the bureau's researchers say is more accurate and less expensive than collecting self-reported responses to a census question. In 2018, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, approved both adding the question to census forms and \u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=4500011-1-18-Cv-02921-Administrative-Record#document/p1328/a511872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">directed the bureau to request records\u003c/a> from other agencies and state governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the DHS document lays out a number of risks involved with sharing data with the bureau, including a concern that doing so is \"not compatible with the original purpose\" of DHS agencies collecting the information. It also flags the risk that the people whose information DHS is sharing with the Census Bureau may not want that to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document says, however, these risks \"cannot be mitigated\" and that Trump's executive order requires DHS to comply with the bureau's data requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some privacy advocates have raised their own concerns about the potential misuse of data, especially at a time of increased immigration enforcement. Using the information to try to identify noncitizens \"implicates fundamental due process rights and will impact both citizens and non-citizens,\" wrote Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epic.org/privacy/census/EPIC-HCOGR-Census-July2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July letter to leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of those concerns, it's not clear exactly how accurate the data produced using the existing records will be. The DHS document acknowledges it is \"notoriously difficult\" to use data to determine a person's current immigration status because \"individuals can have multiple immigration statuses through their lifetime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because DHS is providing information at a point in time,\" the document says, \"it is reasonable to believe that eventually data accuracy issues may arise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=To+Produce+Citizenship+Data%2C+Homeland+Security+To+Share+Records+With+Census+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11794002/homeland-security-to-share-records-with-census-bureau-to-produce-citizenship-data","authors":["byline_news_11794002"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_26244","news_22883","news_21593","news_27254"],"featImg":"news_11794003","label":"source_news_11794002"},"news_11793365":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11793365","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11793365","score":null,"sort":[1577838571000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-officials-reject-proposal-to-hike-u-s-citizenship-fees","title":"California Officials Denounce Proposal to Hike U.S. Citizenship Fees","publishDate":1577838571,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California elected officials and immigration advocates are denouncing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789044/cost-of-citizenship-would-rise-60-under-trump-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Trump administration proposal\u003c/a> that would hike the application fees to become a U.S. citizen by 83%, while also eliminating many fee waivers that low-income immigrants rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCIS-2019-0010-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed rule\u003c/a> by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the total cost of renewing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals would increase from $495 to $765, while naturalization application fees would rise from $640 to $1,170.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/archive-news/uscis-announces-final-rule-adjusting-immigration-benefit-application-and-petition-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last price hike\u003c/a> in 2016, under the Obama administration, the naturalization fee increased by $45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship and the ability to obtain the immigration status for which you are eligible should not depend on the size of your bank account,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other mayors \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/8nTiCrkYKnfA6jzrSLljXj?domain=communicationsshop.us18.list-manage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a Dec. 18 letter to the agency urging the agency to withdraw the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current proposal, USCIS would no longer offer fee waivers for people applying for naturalization, work employment authorization, permanent residency and other benefits. The agency would also get rid of the discounted rate for people petitioning to become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, USCIS would also charge some asylum-seekers $50 to request the protections, and $490 to apply for a first-time work permit while their cases are pending. The only three other countries that charge asylum-seekers a fee to consider their applications are Iran, Fiji and Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"USCIS spokesperson\"]'This proposed adjustment in fees ensures more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS said the changes were necessary to recover full operating costs. The agency estimates current fees would leave it underfunded by $1.3 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most federal agencies that are funded through taxpayer money, USCIS relies on immigrant application fees to pay for most of its operations and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed adjustment in fees ensures more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system,” a USCIS spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, USCIS offers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feewaiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waive the citizenship application fee\u003c/a> for extremely low-income immigrants. In 2016, the agency began cutting the naturalization fee in half for immigrants with slightly higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782917/fee-waivers-for-citizenship-applications-harder-to-get-under-new-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">separate rule\u003c/a> in October that made it harder for low-income immigrants to qualify for fee waivers. This would have prevented about 200,000 people in California from becoming citizens, critics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 13, a federal judge in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/politics/federal-court-halts-changes-fee-waiver-for-naturalization/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocked\u003c/a> the administration from continuing to implement the changes, which stopped allowing immigrants to use means-tested benefits like Medi-Cal as a way to qualify for the fee waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents say the proposed rule is another attempt by the Trump administration to restrict legal immigration, with potentially lasting consequences for future U.S. elections since naturalization enables immigrants to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Catherine Seitz, legal director at the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\"]'I think it’ll make it so that so many people won’t be able to apply for naturalization, they’ll have to put it off because they have to pay their rent first or feed their family first.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact could be huge in California, which has more than\u003ca href=\"http://data.cmsny.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2 million adults\u003c/a> eligible to naturalize — about a quarter of the total population nationwide eligible to become citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed fee hikes combined with further restrictions to fee exemptions would negatively impact most of the people served by the \u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>, said Catherine Seitz, the. nonprofit's legal director. The group helped more than 1,800 immigrants naturalize over the last year through citizenship workshops and legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people won’t be able to apply for naturalization. They’ll have to put it off because they have to pay their rent first or feed their family first,” said Seitz. “It's \"frustrating they are going to raise fees at a time when they are just not providing the services that they should be providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big complaint is the growing wait times for all kinds of immigration applications nationwide. Applicants for naturalization must now wait an average of \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 months\u003c/a> for USCIS to process their petitions, compared to six months in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has hired additional staff and expanded its facilities to keep up with an \"extraordinary demand\" for services, said USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins. In 2019, the agency naturalized about \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/resources-congress/testimonies-and-speeches/hearing-unprecedented-migration-us-southern-borderthe-year-review-senate-committee-homeland-security-and-government-affairs-november-13-2019-acting-director-kenneth-cuccinelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">833,000 new citizens\u003c/a>, the most in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, the agency has also increased security screenings and other bureaucratic hurdles for applicants, said Diego Iniguez-Lopez, policy and campaigns manager for the \u003ca href=\"https://partnershipfornewamericans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Partnership for New Americans\u003c/a>, which opposes the proposed rule. Those changes — such as increasing the length of the naturalization form to 20 pages — have added work for agency staffers and contributed to a backlog of more than 700,000 naturalization applications, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these policies are slowing down the process for USCIS to do its mission, which is adjudicate immigration applications,” said Iniguez-Lopez. Now, they're trying to put the new expenditures “on the backs of low-income immigrants, which we think is fundamentally unfair and getting away from what USCIS should be doing.”[aside tag=\"citizenship\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who become U.S. citizens are more likely to have higher incomes and own their homes, compared to immigrants who don’t get citizenship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660853/immigrants-seek-stability-of-u-s-citizenship-but-cost-is-often-a-barrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comment period on USCIS’s proposal ended Dec. 30. Advocates don’t expect a final rule until April or May because the federal government must review more than 29,000 comments submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz believes any changes would not significantly impact the next presidential election because of its timing and the extended processing times for naturalization applications. But she said the Trump administration’s proposal could reduce the number of naturalized voters in future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from California mayors to the agency isn't the only time elected officials have spoken out against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a group of nearly 50 mayors and several members of Congress from California and other states \u003ca href=\"https://meng.house.gov/sites/meng.house.gov/files/Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urged\u003c/a> USCIS to withdraw its proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and five other democratic senators also raised their own concerns in December about some of the proposal's provisions, such as the transfer of more than $112 million from USCIS fees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. immigration law, funds from USCIS fees are exclusively for processing immigration applications and naturalization services, not immigration enforcement, the senators wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.harris.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Comment%20Letter%20re%20USCIS%20Fee%20Rule%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> rebuking the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Trump administration proposal would increase naturalization application fees by 83%, while fee waivers would no longer be available to low-income immigrants seeking to become citizens.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1578506887,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1145},"headData":{"title":"California Officials Denounce Proposal to Hike U.S. Citizenship Fees | KQED","description":"A Trump administration proposal would increase naturalization application fees by 83%, while fee waivers would no longer be available to low-income immigrants seeking to become citizens.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Officials Denounce Proposal to Hike U.S. Citizenship Fees","datePublished":"2020-01-01T00:29:31.000Z","dateModified":"2020-01-08T18:08:07.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11793365 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11793365","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/12/31/california-officials-reject-proposal-to-hike-u-s-citizenship-fees/","disqusTitle":"California Officials Denounce Proposal to Hike U.S. Citizenship Fees","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/12/RomeroCitizenshipFees.mp3","audioTrackLength":61,"path":"/news/11793365/california-officials-reject-proposal-to-hike-u-s-citizenship-fees","audioDuration":80000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California elected officials and immigration advocates are denouncing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11789044/cost-of-citizenship-would-rise-60-under-trump-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Trump administration proposal\u003c/a> that would hike the application fees to become a U.S. citizen by 83%, while also eliminating many fee waivers that low-income immigrants rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=USCIS-2019-0010-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed rule\u003c/a> by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the total cost of renewing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals would increase from $495 to $765, while naturalization application fees would rise from $640 to $1,170.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/archive/archive-news/uscis-announces-final-rule-adjusting-immigration-benefit-application-and-petition-fees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last price hike\u003c/a> in 2016, under the Obama administration, the naturalization fee increased by $45.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Citizenship and the ability to obtain the immigration status for which you are eligible should not depend on the size of your bank account,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and other mayors \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/8nTiCrkYKnfA6jzrSLljXj?domain=communicationsshop.us18.list-manage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> in a Dec. 18 letter to the agency urging the agency to withdraw the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current proposal, USCIS would no longer offer fee waivers for people applying for naturalization, work employment authorization, permanent residency and other benefits. The agency would also get rid of the discounted rate for people petitioning to become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unprecedented move, USCIS would also charge some asylum-seekers $50 to request the protections, and $490 to apply for a first-time work permit while their cases are pending. The only three other countries that charge asylum-seekers a fee to consider their applications are Iran, Fiji and Australia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This proposed adjustment in fees ensures more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"USCIS spokesperson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS said the changes were necessary to recover full operating costs. The agency estimates current fees would leave it underfunded by $1.3 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike most federal agencies that are funded through taxpayer money, USCIS relies on immigrant application fees to pay for most of its operations and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed adjustment in fees ensures more applicants cover the true cost of their applications and minimizes subsidies from an already over-extended system,” a USCIS spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, USCIS offers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/feewaiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">waive the citizenship application fee\u003c/a> for extremely low-income immigrants. In 2016, the agency began cutting the naturalization fee in half for immigrants with slightly higher incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USCIS issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782917/fee-waivers-for-citizenship-applications-harder-to-get-under-new-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">separate rule\u003c/a> in October that made it harder for low-income immigrants to qualify for fee waivers. This would have prevented about 200,000 people in California from becoming citizens, critics say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 13, a federal judge in San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/politics/federal-court-halts-changes-fee-waiver-for-naturalization/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocked\u003c/a> the administration from continuing to implement the changes, which stopped allowing immigrants to use means-tested benefits like Medi-Cal as a way to qualify for the fee waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents say the proposed rule is another attempt by the Trump administration to restrict legal immigration, with potentially lasting consequences for future U.S. elections since naturalization enables immigrants to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I think it’ll make it so that so many people won’t be able to apply for naturalization, they’ll have to put it off because they have to pay their rent first or feed their family first.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Catherine Seitz, legal director at the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact could be huge in California, which has more than\u003ca href=\"http://data.cmsny.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> 2 million adults\u003c/a> eligible to naturalize — about a quarter of the total population nationwide eligible to become citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed fee hikes combined with further restrictions to fee exemptions would negatively impact most of the people served by the \u003ca href=\"https://iibayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Immigration Institute of the Bay Area\u003c/a>, said Catherine Seitz, the. nonprofit's legal director. The group helped more than 1,800 immigrants naturalize over the last year through citizenship workshops and legal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many people won’t be able to apply for naturalization. They’ll have to put it off because they have to pay their rent first or feed their family first,” said Seitz. “It's \"frustrating they are going to raise fees at a time when they are just not providing the services that they should be providing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big complaint is the growing wait times for all kinds of immigration applications nationwide. Applicants for naturalization must now wait an average of \u003ca href=\"https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/historic-pt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 months\u003c/a> for USCIS to process their petitions, compared to six months in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has hired additional staff and expanded its facilities to keep up with an \"extraordinary demand\" for services, said USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins. In 2019, the agency naturalized about \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/tools/resources-congress/testimonies-and-speeches/hearing-unprecedented-migration-us-southern-borderthe-year-review-senate-committee-homeland-security-and-government-affairs-november-13-2019-acting-director-kenneth-cuccinelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">833,000 new citizens\u003c/a>, the most in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in recent years, the agency has also increased security screenings and other bureaucratic hurdles for applicants, said Diego Iniguez-Lopez, policy and campaigns manager for the \u003ca href=\"https://partnershipfornewamericans.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Partnership for New Americans\u003c/a>, which opposes the proposed rule. Those changes — such as increasing the length of the naturalization form to 20 pages — have added work for agency staffers and contributed to a backlog of more than 700,000 naturalization applications, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these policies are slowing down the process for USCIS to do its mission, which is adjudicate immigration applications,” said Iniguez-Lopez. Now, they're trying to put the new expenditures “on the backs of low-income immigrants, which we think is fundamentally unfair and getting away from what USCIS should be doing.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"citizenship","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who become U.S. citizens are more likely to have higher incomes and own their homes, compared to immigrants who don’t get citizenship, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660853/immigrants-seek-stability-of-u-s-citizenship-but-cost-is-often-a-barrier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u003c/a> researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public comment period on USCIS’s proposal ended Dec. 30. Advocates don’t expect a final rule until April or May because the federal government must review more than 29,000 comments submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seitz believes any changes would not significantly impact the next presidential election because of its timing and the extended processing times for naturalization applications. But she said the Trump administration’s proposal could reduce the number of naturalized voters in future elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter from California mayors to the agency isn't the only time elected officials have spoken out against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a group of nearly 50 mayors and several members of Congress from California and other states \u003ca href=\"https://meng.house.gov/sites/meng.house.gov/files/Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">urged\u003c/a> USCIS to withdraw its proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Senator Kamala Harris and five other democratic senators also raised their own concerns in December about some of the proposal's provisions, such as the transfer of more than $112 million from USCIS fees to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under U.S. immigration law, funds from USCIS fees are exclusively for processing immigration applications and naturalization services, not immigration enforcement, the senators wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.harris.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Comment%20Letter%20re%20USCIS%20Fee%20Rule%20FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> rebuking the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11793365/california-officials-reject-proposal-to-hike-u-s-citizenship-fees","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_22883","news_21021","news_23454","news_26537"],"featImg":"news_11793382","label":"news_72"},"news_11789044":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11789044","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11789044","score":null,"sort":[1575053756000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cost-of-citizenship-would-rise-60-under-trump-plan","title":"Cost of Citizenship Would Rise 60% Under Trump Plan","publishDate":1575053756,"format":"standard","headTitle":"CALmatters | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>A recent proposal by the Trump administration to increase the cost of applying for U.S. citizenship will disproportionately affect low-income immigrants and could dissuade many green card holders from applying, immigration advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed new rule, published on Nov. 14 by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/11/14/2019-24366/us-citizenship-and-immigration-services-fee-schedule-and-changes-to-certain-other-immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Register\u003c/a> with a month-long comment period, would raise the naturalization application fee for most eligible immigrants by more than 60 percent, from $725 to $1,170. It also would eliminate a fee waiver now available to low-income applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"citizenship\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase is one of a number of immigration-related fee hikes proposed. Others would charge asylum seekers for filing applications and work permits, and increase the cost of renewal for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, whose fate is currently being deliberated by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-proposes-adjust-fees-meet-operational-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the increases were needed to support an “overextended system” with a deficit of more than $1 billion, but local immigration advocates argue the shortfall could be funded in other ways. They say the additional cost of applying for citizenship would present significant barriers for low-income green card holders since the higher fee is equivalent to roughly two weeks of pay for California workers making minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of a coordinated and concerted effort to manipulate the immigration system and the naturalization system so that it becomes a system that favors the wealthy,” says Melissa Rodgers, director of programs at the San Francisco-based Immigrant Legal Resource Center. “It’s a vicious attack on vulnerable communities and it’s a vicious attack on communities of color who are going to be most affected by these changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers estimated that up to \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/731/docs/CSII_Citizenship_Brief_May2016_Final_Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-third\u003c/a> of the roughly 9 million people now eligible for naturalization could be priced out by the proposal. A 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/939.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from Stanford University’s Immigration Policy Lab concluded that the current $725 fee already prevents a “considerable share” of low-income immigrants from applying for citizenship. The study also found that application rates for eligible, financially insecure immigrants increased by more than 40% when they were given vouchers that covered the cost of applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maricela Gutiérrez,executive director of SIREN\"]\"Every penny counts for these families.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maricela Gutiérrez, executive director of the San Jose-based immigrant rights nonprofit SIREN, says clients have expressed concern about the possibility of higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these clients have minimum wage jobs, they’re helping their children with college and book fees, and many of them live in rental units that are very expensive,” she says. “Every penny counts for these families. And another increase when they were putting away a certain amount of money for their applications will most likely delay when they can apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others noted that the changes could potentially limit the number of people who would apply for naturalization and vote in the 2020 presidential election. Richard Hobbs, an immigration attorney in San Jose, says many of his clients are interested in becoming citizens so they can vote — a possibility that could become less likely for those who can’t afford the higher costs of applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a very pointed policy to prevent immigrants from being able to vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Erica Hellerstein is a Mercury News reporter who is part of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The California Divide\u003c/a>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Low-income immigrants would be affected the most, since they already have trouble paying the naturalization fee. 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It also would eliminate a fee waiver now available to low-income applicants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"citizenship","label":"Related coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increase is one of a number of immigration-related fee hikes proposed. Others would charge asylum seekers for filing applications and work permits, and increase the cost of renewal for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, whose fate is currently being deliberated by the Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-proposes-adjust-fees-meet-operational-needs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said the increases were needed to support an “overextended system” with a deficit of more than $1 billion, but local immigration advocates argue the shortfall could be funded in other ways. They say the additional cost of applying for citizenship would present significant barriers for low-income green card holders since the higher fee is equivalent to roughly two weeks of pay for California workers making minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is part of a coordinated and concerted effort to manipulate the immigration system and the naturalization system so that it becomes a system that favors the wealthy,” says Melissa Rodgers, director of programs at the San Francisco-based Immigrant Legal Resource Center. “It’s a vicious attack on vulnerable communities and it’s a vicious attack on communities of color who are going to be most affected by these changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers estimated that up to \u003ca href=\"https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/731/docs/CSII_Citizenship_Brief_May2016_Final_Web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one-third\u003c/a> of the roughly 9 million people now eligible for naturalization could be priced out by the proposal. A 2018 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/115/5/939.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study\u003c/a> from Stanford University’s Immigration Policy Lab concluded that the current $725 fee already prevents a “considerable share” of low-income immigrants from applying for citizenship. The study also found that application rates for eligible, financially insecure immigrants increased by more than 40% when they were given vouchers that covered the cost of applying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\"Every penny counts for these families.\"","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Maricela Gutiérrez,executive director of SIREN","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maricela Gutiérrez, executive director of the San Jose-based immigrant rights nonprofit SIREN, says clients have expressed concern about the possibility of higher fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of these clients have minimum wage jobs, they’re helping their children with college and book fees, and many of them live in rental units that are very expensive,” she says. “Every penny counts for these families. And another increase when they were putting away a certain amount of money for their applications will most likely delay when they can apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others noted that the changes could potentially limit the number of people who would apply for naturalization and vote in the 2020 presidential election. 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