The Resurrection Project (TRP) and The National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA) strongly condemn the Trump administration’s decision to move a step closer toward finalizing a federal regulation that would make it harder for hundreds of thousands of elderly low-income, and working immigrants to afford citizenship. The regulation will also make it less affordable to apply for lawful permanent residence, temporary protected status, and employment authorization. In 2017, around 40 percent of citizenship applicants, over 370,000 people, filed for citizenship and requested a fee waiver. Over two-thirds of these lawful permanent residents requested the fee waiver using the proof of a means-tested benefit. This means that the proposed regulation would make it more difficult, if not impossible, for over 244,000 elderly and working poor immigrants per year to naturalize per year. In addition to other proposed regulations and practices, the backlog of nearly 740,000 citizenship applications before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and processing delays that exceed 30 months in certain offices, these roadblocks constitute a “Second Wall” of barriers to citizenship constructed by the current administration. In response, NPNA and TRP pledge to tear down the “Second Wall” of barriers to citizenship and mobilize its communities and advocates to mobilize one million new citizens by 2020. TRP hosts Citizenship Workshops every Saturday at 9:00am at 1805 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago, IL. For more information about The Resurrection Project, please visit www.resurrectionproject.org.