The real cost of Trump’s $100,000 visas

President Donald Trump during the signing executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on September 19, including introducing a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. | Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images With one declaration, President Donald Trump upended an aspect of our immigration system. Last week, Trump announced that the US would begin imposing a $100,000 fee for all new H-1B visa applications — that is, the visa that high-skill foreign professionals use to work in the US. By hiking the fee to such an exorbitant sum, Trump hopes to compel companies to turn t