Texas News Could Immigration Application Fees Pay for Building the Border Wall? KWBU | By Texas Standard Published January 30, 2018 at 12:52 PM CST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:59 Jude Matsalla/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The Trump Administration is asking for $25 billion for additional border security, and some wonder if the funding could come from the immigration system itself.