BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell is leading a group of Democrats suing the Trump administration to block a new fee for highly skilled immigrants.
In the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Boston, Campbell co-leads a group of 20 states arguing that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security “usurped Congress’s authority over immigration and revenues” by setting the $100,000 supplemental fee on H-1B visa applications.
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