A federal judge has ruled against the nation’s largest business lobby in a case that’s trying to stop a fee increase for the H-1B visa. That’s the visa that allows foreign workers in industries like tech and medicine to come to the U.S.
Under a proclamation issued by President Donald Trump earlier this year, employers applying for H-1B visas for their workers will be required to pay $100,000.
The change was met with multiple legal actions — including one lawsuit filed by Arizona and 19 other states, which argued the fee is unconstitutional.
As Reuters reports, the lawsuit ruled on this week was filed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and argued the new policy will harm hospitals and other employers who rely on highly skilled foreign work. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled to allow the new fee as part of presidential powers to regulate immigration.
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The Arizona Sheriff’s Association issued an open letter calling out the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office over its response to the public safety concerns surrounding the border wall construction in that area. -
Thousands of refugees in the U.S. lost health coverage on Oct. 1 as new Medicaid eligibility rules took effect. In Arizona, unlike in most states, even children and pregnant women are being dropped. -
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls.
