President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications recently took effect.

Dozens of Michigan companies hire H-1B visa holders, with auto industry giants Ford and General Motors topping the list. They could now face hefty fees.

The H-1B visa program, the latest to be scrutinized by the second-term Republican president, was created to bring temporary, highly-skilled workers into the U.S. to do jobs that tech companies find difficult to fill with U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Critics on both sides of the aisle say the program is instead allowing some companies to pay lower wages to foreign workers with fewer labor protections.

Trump said in his Sept. 19 proclamation that H-1B visas are being “deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American w

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