In the first major domestic legal challenge to the H-1B visa crackdown, a group of unions, education professionals and religious bodies sued the Trump administration.

In a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, the plaintiffs argued that Trump’s proclamation, signed on September 19, was riddled with “multiple errors” and “ignores the benefits of the H-1B visa program to the American economy.”

The case also highlighted that the $100,000 visa application fee is “unprecedented, unjustified and unlawful.”

“The Proclamation’s imposition of a draconian fee is unprecedented. No President has, without Congressional authorization and by fiat, imposed a market-wide penalty for purported misuse of a program—disregarding and overriding an existing, complex statutory scheme—on employe

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