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Since 1990, American taxpayers alone have borne all increases in court budgets. Aliens pay no more today to file a case in immigration courts than they did in 1990. Through 2010, filing fees have not kept pace with the 276 percent rate of increase in government spending, the 70 percent cumulative rate of inflation, or the 823 percent increase in court budgets.1 From 2000 through 2007, taxpayers even paid the court costs some $30 million of aliens who appealed deportation ordersin asylum cases, but also for crimes they committed in the United States and for fraudulent marriages they entered.
Citizens and non-citizens in any other courts pay their own filing fees and court costs but not in immigration courts. Despite years of taxpayer support, at no time have aliens been asked to contribute more to the processes of justice from which they stand to gain the most.
Lengthy, but interesting read by Mark H. Metcalf - a former judge on the immigration court in Miami, Fla.