our national values ARE money

[acroyear]

Generally, an acceptable summary of the great inaction of the current government on the immigration issue, 'til it got to this section:

They Are America - New York Times:

The bureaucratic trap. The federal bureaucracy, notorious for backlogs and bad service, wants to charge more to immigrants who want to become Americans — an average increase of 66 percent in the price of visas and citizenship papers. Such steep and arbitrary increases would create a means test for citizenship, an affront to our national values.

Uh, how long has it been since money and means WEREN'T our "national values".  When the $20 holds more value than a vote, when constitutional doctrines like limited copyright get sold away to the lobby of Disney, when civil rights justice is won by the highest paid lawyer, when our cultural output is judged solely by the ratings, the box office, the billboard charts...

"almighty dollar", indeed.

<sarcasm>Making money a requirement for citizenship merely tells the immigrant, "get with the program."</sarcasm>