DOJ Asserts Trump Authority in H-1B Visa Fee Case Has Few Limits

A Justice Department attorney defending the White House’s $100,000 fee for H-1B workers said the hefty sum is far from the ceiling of what President Donald Trump could require of foreigners to enter the US.

During a hearing Friday over a coalition of states’ challenge to the policy, US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin of the District of Massachusetts pressed the government on how far a president could take the authority given to him by Congress to restrict entry of noncitizens.

“What if it said, you have to turn over half your assets?” Sorokin asked in a hypothetical about the ...