A lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas describes the kinds of harms it could have on health care, education and religious groups that seek to employ foreign talent to complement their workforce.

The complaint , filed by a mix of employers and unions Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, details the economic fallout as a central part of its lawsuit that argues the Trump administration overstepped congressional authority.

Trump’s Sept. 19 proclamation says the new $100,000 fee on companies for every new H-1B visa application is necessary to reverse “systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security.”

But the proclamation focuses on information technology and software, along w

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