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Second judge blocks Trump's $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: A second federal judge issued an order blocking the federal
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  Speaker 1: government from enforcing a mandatory $ 100, 000 fee on new H-1B
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  Speaker 1: visas for highly skilled foreign professionals. United States District Judge
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  Speaker 1: Haywood Gilliam Jr. in Oakland, California, granted a preliminary injunction
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  Speaker 1: prohibiting United States citizenship and immigration services and customs and
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  Speaker 1: border protection from implementing or enforcing administrative guidance tied to
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  Speaker 1: the high-dollar surcharge. The decision represents another major judicial setback
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  Speaker 1: for executive policies aimed at drastically curtailing corporate reliance on
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  Speaker 1: international talent. delivering temporary relief to healthcare systems, academic institutions,
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  Speaker 1: and technology firms that depend on the specialty occupation visa program.
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  Speaker 1: The ruling stems from a federal lawsuit filed by Global
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  Speaker 1: Nurse Force alongside a coalition of healthcare providers, religious groups,
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  Speaker 1: and labor unions who argued that executive officials bypassed established
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  Speaker 1: administrative laws when establishing the fee. In his analysis, Judge
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  Speaker 1: Gilliam determined that federal immigration agencies violated the Administrative Procedure
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  Speaker 1: Act by failing to provide the public with proper notice
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  Speaker 1: and an opportunity to submit comments before enacting the massive
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  Speaker 1: fee increase. Prior to the executive mandate, federal employers paid
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  Speaker 1: between $ 2, 000 and $ 5, 000 in statutory administrative fees to sponsor
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  Speaker 1: foreign professionals. The court emphasized that federal regulations prohibit agencies
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  Speaker 1: from instituting sweeping policy alterations overnight without adhering to established
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  Speaker 1: rulemaking procedures. Wednesday's order reinforces an earlier ruling from a
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  Speaker 1: federal court in Boston, which previously halted the surcharge in
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  Speaker 1: a multi-state challenge, a decision that a federal appeals court
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  Speaker 1: subsequently refused to suspend. While executive leaders argue that steep
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  Speaker 1: financial barriers are necessary to protect American workers from wage
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  Speaker 1: suppression and prevent corporate replacement of domestic labor, business lobbying
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  Speaker 1: organizations and legal groups contend that unilateral fee hikes infringe
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  Speaker 1: directly upon congressional spending authority. With parallel legal proceedings continuing
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  Speaker 1: in multiple jurisdictions and federal agencies pursuing formal rulemaking to
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  Speaker 1: permanently implement similar fee structures, The conflicting judicial decisions set
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  Speaker 1: up an ongoing constitutional test over the limits of executive
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  Speaker 1: authority in governing immigration policy.