WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Las Vegas, Nev. -U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and 10 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in pressing the Trump Administration on their recent proposed rule to increase naturalization fees and remove reduced fee options and fee waivers for those attempting to become citizens. In a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Joseph B. Edlow, the senators raised alarms about how the proposed fee increases would limit citizenship for thousands of immigrants.
"USCIS's actions have repeatedly increased the burden of and difficulty in obtaining U.S. citizenship," wrote the sen...