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Chris Stein

US House Republicans propose fees on immigrants to fund Trump’s crackdown

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Jim Jordan, Republican chair of the House judiciary committee, in Washington on 6 May. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Congressional Republicans are proposing an array of new fees on immigrants seeking to remain in the United States in a move that advocates warn will create insurmountable financial barriers.

Legislation moving through the GOP-controlled House of Representatives could require immigrants to pay potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars to seek asylum, care for a minor in the government’s custody, or apply for humanitarian parole.

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