President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on immigration would likely make it much harder for Long Island businesses to hire highly skilled foreign workers and could contribute to a local brain drain, labor experts and local economists said.

Trump’s order, imposing a $100,000 fee for new applicants to enter the country through the H-1B visa program, which went into effect Sunday, is meant to level the playing field for American workers, according to the White House .

H-1B visas are typically used in industries where the unemployment rate is low, like technology, engineering and medicine, said Ben Rissing, associate professor of organizational behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. The visa, he said, "has been so popular because U.S. firm

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