America’s innovation economy is the global leader in imagining, designing and deploying the most cutting-edge technologies, whether in artificial intelligence, quantum computing or autonomous vehicles.

But the Trump administration’s recent alteration to the immigration landscape with a new six-figure fee on foreign workers threatens to reduce innovation breakthroughs and make business more expensive for entrepreneurs and innovators of all sizes in California.

In September, President Trump signed a proclamation that slapped a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions for workers outside the United States. (This visa had cost a few thousand dollars before this recent change.) The petitions are submitted to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services by research institutions, entrepreneurs

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