President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the government will introduce a $100,000 fee for skilled foreign workers on H-1B visas.

White House staff secretary Will Scharf introduced the executive order by describing the H-1B visa system as “one of the most abused visa systems in our current immigration system,” explaining that the fee increase will “ensure that the people they’re bringing in are actually very highly skilled, and that they’re not replaceable by American workers.”

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick emphasized that the fee would be an annual one, adding, “No more will these tech companies or other big companies train foreign workers. They have to pay the government $100,000, then they have to pay the employee, it’s just not economic.”

“If you’re going to train somebody

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