On Sept. 19, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation imposing a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H-1B visa petitions. The administration said the fee will combat “systemic abuse” of the H-1B visa program, but healthcare experts said it will worsen worker shortages. Here are eight things to know.

1. The executive order said the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers to the U.S. to perform additive, high-skilled jobs, but its long-term abuse is a security threat. “The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security,” the proclamation said. “Some employers, using practices now widely adopted by entire sectors, have abused the H-1B statute and its regulations to ar

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