President dramatically raised cost of visa for highly skilled workers in executive order last year
A US judge has invalidated Donald Trump’s $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution.
US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas… The ruling vacated the sweeping fee, which was a 20-to-50 fold increase on existing rates, and the Trump administration is widely expected to appeal.
In his ruling, Sorokin’s found that the fee amounted to a tax, rather than a regulatory restriction. Since the constitution gives Congress, not the president, the exclusive power to levy taxes, Trump lacked the authority to impose it.
Shame on those states for siding with corporations over the people of their states. The H1b has become modern day indentured servitude.
Yes, but that’s clearly a power controlled by Congress, not the President. If they want that law, pass it through Congress.
There already was a fee for the visa, increasing it doesn’t make it a tax. This isn’t a Trump breaking the rules thing, it’s a court and politicians ruling for corporations over people thing.
It’s a fee explicitly set in law by Congress. The president does not have the authority to change that.
It is, but it doesn’t make it any better for Trump to get a cut of the action. That’s all this would do.