President Donald Trump just increased the fee for an H-1B Visa application to $100,000. 

The Daily Caller reports that Trump did so on Friday.

This, as we will see, is a significant increase.

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"Restriction on entry of..."

The White House, on Friday, released the order signed by Trump. It is titled, "Restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant workers."

It begins:

The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.  The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security.

The order goes on to detail just how the system has been abused, and it argues that "the abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat."

For this reason, the order states:

 It is therefore necessary to impose higher costs on companies seeking to use the H-1B program in order to address the abuse of that program while still permitting companies to hire the best of the best temporary foreign workers.

So, the fee for such an application has now been raised to $100,000.

Trump signs the order

Trump, on Friday, held a press conference in the Oval Office, where he signed the order.

A White House official said:

What this proclamation will do is raise the fee that companies pay to sponsor H-1B applicants to $100,000. This will ensure that the people they’re bringing in are actually very highly skilled, and that they’re not replaceable by American workers. So it’ll protect American workers, but ensure that companies have a pathway to hire truly extraordinary people and bring them to the United States.

The move is being touted as a win for America and Americans. Critics, however, are trying to claim otherwise.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said, "If you’re going to train somebody, you’re going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land, train Americans."

"Stop bringing in people to take our jobs. That’s the policy here," he added.