Furthermore, immigration does not cause financial burden to the nation, but it helps to enhance America’s economy further. Taxes are major source of income, and play a vital role in the nation’s development. Moore and Anderson claim that most of the immigrants come to the United States between the age of eighteen and thirty-five. At this age, they work very hard; as a result, they make substantial income and contribute a great deal of money to the government in the form of taxes. Thus, the immigrants become an additional source of tax income to the country. According to Moore and Anderson, the immigrants not only pay taxes to the government but also contribute a huge amount of money to the various income transfer programs, such as Medicare and Social Security. The authors further add that the Urban Institute found that immigrants contribute about twenty billion dollars a year to the government (2). Some scandalous abuses may have taken place in welfare usage by some immigrants, but all immigrants should not be blamed for abuses. Those abuses take place due to the lack of regulated policy on welfare programs. This problem could be solved by restricting the welfare eligibility of immigrants, not by restricting immigration. Assistant professor of economics at Yale University, Jennifer Roback, states that “[o]pen immigration would help the American economy, save tax dollars, enhance America’s image abroad, and substantially reduce [the] foreign-policy cost” (1). The government of the United States also raises huge amounts of money by taking application fees for citizenship and permanent residence from immigrants. A New York Times article states that the Clinton administration purposed to raise the application fee for citizenship, permanent residence, and replacement of lost green cards. According to the article, the application for citizenship will cost $225, which is one hundred thirty-seven percent more than year 1997. With the new fees, replacing green cards was jump from $75 to $130, and the fee for becoming a legal permanent resident will climb $220 from $130 (“Immigration Service” A10). The government's decision about increasing application fee was raised a substantial amount of money for the nation. For instance, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has the quota of 675,000 for legal permanent resident per year. In order to obtain legal permanent resident status, a person has to pay $220 as an application fee. The government of the United States collects about $149 million only from the application fee of permanent residents every year.

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