text: immigration charges over $3000. to become a citizen. do you think someone making 4 dollars an hr. can afford?   you make a great point. perhaps the only you've posted.  this does give people with money a leg up on becoming citizens and puts many of hispanic descent at a disadvantage, because businesses here use them like the plantation owners used the slaves before the civil war.  perhaps the longer you're here waiting to become a citizen, the lower the price should be. that way those who can't save...(don't tell someone making $4/hr could ever save that much and live)...could earn a discount for amount of time as resident.