President Donald Trump's decision to raise the fee to $100,000 each for hiring skilled foreign workers may not be the best way to reform the broken guest worker program, but it should jump-start decades-old effort to bring fairness to the system.

The H-1B visas to which the fee applies are part of a deeply flawed program that both Republicans and Democrats have long sought to reform, despite intense lobbying by Silicon Valley's tech giants.

Designed to allow American companies to find employees in fields they say are short of native talent, such as the IT, medical and engineering industries, the visas were sold as a means of keeping U.S. businesses competitive and to help them avoid the necessity of moving operations overseas.

Critics, however, argue that the visas have served to displa

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