Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B visas

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SEATTLE (AP) — In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan, saying it has “thrown employers, workers and federal agencies into chaos.”

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Sept. 19 requiring the new fee, saying the H-1B visa program “has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.” The changes were slated to go into effect in 36 hours, which caused panic for employers, who instructed their workers to return to the U.S. immediately.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, said the H-1B program is a critical pathway to hiring healthcare workers and educators. It drives innovation and economic growth in the U.S., and allows employers to fill jobs in specialized fields, the lawsuit said.

“Without relief, hospitals will lose medical staff, churches will lose pastors, classrooms will lose teachers, and industries across the country risk losing key innovators,” Democracy Forward Foundation and Justice Action Center said in a press release. “The suit asks the court to immediately block the order and restore predictability for employers and workers.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-trump-s-100-000-fee-for-h-1b-visas/ar-AA1NPvK2

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1. The article implies that the Visa applicant must pay the fee - probably false

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The reason the employers race to stuff IT departments with H-1B visa holders is NOT because Americans are too stupid to succeed at these jobs. The constant statements and implications in the press to that effect are fucking insulting and more Democrats should wake up and stop supporting this undermining of American workers.

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-immigration-8d39699d0b2de3d90936f8076357254e

“If you’re going to train people, you’re going to train Americans.” Lutnick said on a conference call with reporters. “If you have a very sophisticated engineer and you want to bring them in ... then you can pay $100,000 a year for your H-1B visa.”

It's a shame DEMOCRATS didn't think to do this. Or something like it. (There are probably better fixes for H-1B but it has been a catastrophe for American workers for so long, it's understandable if people look past the flaws of this particular approach.)

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2. Suspect fee is paid by employer. But this is something Democrats have been clamoring for, and it might actually

reduce hiring of cheaper foreign workers. It is hard to support anything trump is behind though.