Trump continued more than $ 100,000 in H-1B visa which “launched employers, workers and federal agencies in chaos”

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on September 19 demanding the new costs, saying that the Visa H-1B program “was deliberately exploited to replace, rather than completing, American workers with a less well remunerated and less qualified workforce.” The changes were to enter into force in 36 hours, which caused panic for employers, who asked their workers to return to the United States immediately.

The trial, submitted to the American district court of San Francisco, said that the H-1B program is an essential course to hire health workers and educators. It stimulates innovation and economic growth in the United States and allows employers to fill jobs in specialized areas, the trial said.

“Without relief, hospitals will lose medical staff, churches will lose pastors, classrooms will lose teachers and industries across the country may lose key innovators,” Foundation and Justice Action Center said in a press release. “The trial asks the court to immediately block the order and restore predictability for employers and workers.”

They called the new costs “the last anti-immigration power of Trump”.

Messages requesting comments from the Ministry of Internal Security and Customs and the Protection of American border, who are appointed defendants with Trump and the State Department, were not immediately returned.

The H-1B Visa program was created by the congress to attract highly qualified workers to occupy jobs that technological companies have trouble filling. About a third of H-1B workers are nurses, teachers, doctors, academics, priests and pastors, according to the trial.

Critics say that the program is a pipeline for foreign workers who are often willing to work for as little as $ 60,000 per year, well below $ 100,000 wages and more generally paid to American technology workers.

Historically, H-1B visas were distributed through a lottery. This year, Amazon, based in Seattle, was by far the best recipient of H-1B Visas with more than 10,000 awarded, followed by Tata Consultancy, Microsoft, Apple and Google. Geographically, California has the greatest number of H-1B workers.

The costs of $ 100,000 will discourage the best and most brilliant minds by providing vital research in the United States, said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors.

Mike Miller, director of the United Automobile Region 6, Aerospace and Agricultural Implemented Workers of America, said that Trump’s plan “prioritizes wealth and links on scientific sense and diligence”.

Skye Perryman, president and chief executive officer of Democracy Forward, maintains that the “exorbitant costs” invite corruption and are illegal. Congress has created the program and Trump cannot rewrite it overnight or collect new taxes by decree, groups said.

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