❓WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald J. Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for foreign workers.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Trump, and businesses using H-1B migrants.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The lawsuit was filed on Thursday in a federal court in Washington, D.C.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Many members of the U.S. Chamber are bracing for the need to scale back or entirely walk away from the H-1B program, to the detriment of their investors, customers, and their own existing employees,” the Chamber stated in the lawsuit.
🎯IMPACT: The fee, proposed by the Trump White House, is aimed at discouraging rampant H-1B visa program fraud and abuse that undermines the employment and wages of native-born American workers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a major globalist lobbying entity representing 300,000 corporate interests, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against President Donald J. Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. The fee, introduced through an Executive Order in September, applies to new applicants selected in the annual H-1B visa lottery starting in March.
The Chamber—which supports mass immigration and flooding the labor market with cheap foreign workers—argues that the fee exceeds the President’s authority and disrupts the visa system established by Congress. The H-1B program, which is intended to allow U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in certain fields, is particularly abused by technology companies—including companies like Cognizant, Infosys, and other H-1 B “mills” that essentially outsource American jobs to foreign contractors.
Currently, employers sponsoring H-1B workers typically pay between $2,000 and $5,000 in fees. The Chamber stated that the new fee would force businesses to either increase labor costs dramatically—a euphemism for paying fair wages to American citizens—or reduce hiring of foreign workers.
“Many members of the U.S. Chamber are bracing for the need to scale back or entirely walk away from the H-1B program, to the detriment of their investors, customers, and their own existing employees,” the Chamber said in its filing in a federal court in Washington, D.C, on Thursday. The Trump White House has not yet responded to the lawsuit.
Data analysis by The National Pulse has revealed that industries and companies relying on cheap, foreign labor supplied by the H1-B visa program have grossly undercounted the number of visa holders admitted to the United States each year and its impact on the wages of native-born Americans.
Those supporting cheap, foreign labor visas insist the United States abides by the statutory cap of 65,000 H1-B visas awarded through a lottery system each year—and an additional 20,000 visas reserved for immigrants with advanced secondary degrees created through the 2004 Omnibus. That means, statutorily, 85,000 H1-B visas can theoretically be granted to foreign workers each year. However, according to the U.S. federal government’s mandated reports to Congress, this number is significantly higher.
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