You did say that you'd put up, yes?!Thanks, I'll take that as a yes, you're asking about the fees you'd earlier claimed the Reagan amnesty didn't charge.
The fee for the Reagan Amnesty was $185 in 1986 dollars, between about $400 and $500 today.
Do you have any other misunderstandings about the Reagan amnesty you'd like clarified? LOL
[1] "The president was enthusiastic about the bill," said [Jim] Kolbe. "He is supportive and told us to take the legislation up with his staff." Tucson Citizen, August 11, 2003. Mr. Kolbe was further quoted in The Washington Times, September 3, 2003, as not expecting action now, but hoping that the groundwork could be laid for the debate, possibly during the presidential campaign and reiterating his conversation with President Bush that "I would say the president did indicate his views are very close to what we're proposing." In a recent White House briefing when asked when the President would call for a proposal on immigration, White House Press Secretary McClellan responded that "The President has expressed his views and remains committed to that view."
[2] Another reason for thinking optimistically about the legislation is the revenue side. Passage of the legislation could conceivably bring $10 billion plus in new-found revenues to the U.S. government. As opposed to the last amnesty, which imposed application fees of $185 on adults and $50 for children under the age of 18 and capped total family charges at $420 only to cover expenses of processing, the Kolbe-Flake bill envisions the program as a moneymaker with the government not only charging application fees to recover costs of processing, but also fines and surcharges to fund the public fisc. An eligible family of five with two parents, and children aged 19, 17, and 15 in addition to paying an application fee to cover processing expenses would pay penalty fees to the government of $6,000 to change status to H-4B."
$185 application fee under Reagan's Amnesty, versus more than $6,000 in fines and application fees under the plan that appears to be what GWB has in mind...