Fees will increase for the first time in six years, by a weighted average of 21 percent for most applications and petitions.   This increase is necessary to recover the full cost of services provided by USCIS. These include the costs associated with fraud detection and national security, customer service and case processing, and providing services without charge to refugee and asylum applicants and to other customers eligible for fee waivers or exemptions.

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-announces-final-rule-adjusting-immigration-benefit-application-and-petition-fees

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet one last time Wednesday to debate in Nevada, where it's difficult to ignore the issue that has loomed over the election but has yet to be truly hashed out in the candidates' two previous meetings: immigration.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-presidential-debates/will-immigration-get-its-due-final-clinton-trump-debate-n668976

Even though the immigration debate hasn't changed in years, someone should tell Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that the immigration reality has.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/09/opinions/immigration-demographic-shifting-kane/

WASHINGTON — A short-handed Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from the Obama administration to reconsider a major immigration decision, dooming for now President Obama’s plan to spare millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/us/politics/supreme-court-immigration-obama.html?_r=0

The eight-member court's order shut the door on a plan that already seemed all but dead a few months ago. The court declined to wait until a ninth justice is confirmed and seated in order to rehear the case — and possibly reverse its June decision.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/10/03/supreme-court-immigration-rehearing-obama-scalia/91246566/