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利奥·索罗金法官支持了20个州组成的联盟，该联盟对2025年9月的公告提出了质疑
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一位奥巴马任命的联邦法官此前曾叫停特朗普总统的出生权公民权行政令，此次再度给特朗普政府带来重大打击：他推翻了特朗普提出的10万美元H-1B签证缴费要求，并宣布该政策非法。
马萨诸塞州联邦地区法官利奥·索罗金周一裁定，特朗普政府无权对申请新H-1B签证的雇主征收高额费用，并称该要求本质上是一项税收，而只有国会才拥有宪法赋予的征税权。
在周一公布的42页判决书中，索罗金支持了20个州组成的联盟，该联盟质疑特朗普2025年9月发布的公告。该公告要求为H-1B签证项目的外国劳工提交请愿书的雇主缴纳新的10万美元费用。H-1B签证项目允许美国雇主雇佣熟练外国劳工，每年约有6.5万名外国劳工获得H-1B签证。
特朗普的10万美元H-1B签证改革或对亚马逊、微软等科技巨头冲击最大
2026年6月3日周三，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿白宫椭圆形办公室签署行政令。（肖恩·休/法新社/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
在特朗普发布该公告之前，雇主为担保一名H-1B员工通常需支付2000至5000美元的申请费，具体金额取决于申请类型和公司规模。
特朗普政府辩称，该措施必要且可遏制签证系统滥用，保护美国工人。
特朗普的公告称，H-1B项目一直被滥用，出现了用低薪外国劳工取代美国工人的情况，新的缴费要求将有助于解决这些问题。
索罗金驳回了政府的法律依据，认为《移民与国籍法》赋予总统对非公民入境的广泛权力，但并未授权总统征税。
“虽然行政部门在接纳和驱逐外国人方面拥有广泛的自由裁量权，但这种自由裁量权并非没有边界，”索罗金在引用先前判例时写道。
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索罗金得出结论，该缴费要求本质上是一项税收，而非可接受的移民限制措施。
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“法院认定，该政策对H-1B请愿书征收了税款，但并未获得国会必要的授权，”索罗金写道。
他进一步驳斥了政府将缴费要求仅仅视为另一项移民限制的说法，直言不讳地指出：“税收并非‘限制措施’。”
除了宪法层面的担忧，索罗金还认定联邦机构违反了《行政程序法》，未通过公告和评议规则制定程序就实施该政策，并得出结论称相关机构超出了法定权限。
作为补救措施，索罗金宣布该政策非法，并将其彻底废止。
美国国务院的标牌展示在华盛顿特区雾谷社区的总部外，2025年4月15日。（吉姆·沃森/法新社）
索罗金毕业于耶鲁大学和哥伦比亚法学院，2013年由总统巴拉克·奥巴马提名担任联邦法官，并于2014年获参议院确认。去年，索罗金是第四位发布全国禁制令，叫停特朗普旨在限制出生权公民权的行政令的法官。他裁定该政策可能违反了第十四修正案。该争议现已提交至最高法院，预计未来几周将作出裁决。
预计政府将就索罗金的判决提起上诉，这将引发又一场关于移民事务中总统权力范围以及行政权力边界的法律战。
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“特朗普总统拥有明确的法律权限，可以限制他认定不符合美国最佳利益的任何一类外国人入境，而他正是这么做的，”白宫发言人泰勒·罗杰斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“H-1B项目被滥用已有数十年，特朗普总统终于采取行动加以纠正。华盛顿的一名联邦法官已经维持了一项几乎完全相同的命令，政府有信心该命令将在上诉中被推翻。”
在2025年12月提起的另一项诉讼中，华盛顿的联邦地区法官贝里尔·豪厄尔驳回了美国商会提出的额外H-1B收费违反联邦移民法的主张，并未阻止该政策的实施。
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Obama-appointed judge who blocked Trump birthright citizenship order strikes again, throws out visa overhaul
June 8, 2026 5:02pm EDT / Fox News
Judge Leo Sorokin sided with a coalition of 20 states that challenged the September 2025 proclamation
By Elaine Mallon, Fox News
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An Obama-appointed federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order has again dealt a major setback to the administration by striking down Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa payment requirement and declaring the policy unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin of Massachusetts ruled Monday that the Trump administration lacked the authority to impose the hefty payment on employers seeking new H-1B visas, finding that the requirement amounted to a tax that only Congress has the constitutional power to impose.
In Monday’s 42-page decision, Sorokin sided with a coalition of 20 states that challenged Trump’s September 2025 proclamation creating a new $100,000 payment requirement for employers filing petitions for foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign workers. Approximately 65,000 foreign workers are issued a H-1B visa each year.
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U.S. President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 3, 2026.(Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Before Trump’s proclamation, employers typically paid between $2,000 and $5,000 in filing fees to sponsor an H-1B worker, depending on the type of application and the size of the company.
The administration had argued that the measure was necessary to curb abuse of the visa system and protect American workers.
Trump’s proclamation stated that the H-1B program had been exploited to replace U.S. workers with lower-paid foreign labor and that the new payment would help address those concerns.
Sorokin rejected the administration’s legal justification, finding that the Immigration and Nationality Act gives presidents broad authority over the entry of noncitizens but does not authorize them to impose taxes.
“While the Executive has broad discretion over the admission and exclusion of aliens, … that discretion is not boundless,” Sorokin wrote, referring to previous case law.
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Sorokin concluded that the payment functioned as a tax rather than a permissible immigration restriction.
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“The Court finds that the Policy imposes a tax on H-1B petitions without the requisite delegation by Congress,” Sorokin wrote.
He further rejected the administration’s argument that the payment requirement was simply another immigration restriction, bluntly stating: “Taxes are not ‘restrictions.’”
Beyond the constitutional concerns, Sorokin also found that federal agencies violated the Administrative Procedure Act by implementing the policy without notice-and-comment rule making and concluded that the agencies exceeded their statutory authority.
As a remedy, Sorokin declared the policy unlawful and vacated it in its entirety.
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Sorokin, a Yale and Columbia Law School graduate, was nominated to the federal bench by President Barack Obama in 2013 and confirmed by the Senate in 2014. Last year, Sorokin was the fourth judge to issue a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship. He ruled that the policy is likely unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. That dispute has since reached the Supreme Court, and a ruling is expected in the coming weeks.
The administration is expected to appeal Sorokin’s decision, setting up another legal battle over the scope of presidential authority in immigration matters and the limits of executive power.
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“President Trump has clear legal authority to restrict entry of any class of aliens he determines is not in America’s best interests, and that is exactly what he did,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers told Fox News Digital. “The H-1B program has been abused for decades, and President Trump finally took action to fix it. A federal judge in Washington already upheld a nearly identical order, and the Administration is confident this order will be reversed on appeal.”
In a separate challenge filed in December 2025, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington declined to block the policy after dismissing claims from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the additional H-1B charge violated federal immigration law.
Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.
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