Colorado hospitals recruit foreign workers for hard-to-fill jobs. That won’t be an option with Trump’s new $100,000 fee.

In a tight health care labor market, sponsoring foreign workers helped Community Hospital in Grand Junction to hire enough nurses to avoid burning its people out. The hospital sponsored 13 people under the H-1B visa program, according to the most recent data from U.S. “If they put a $100,000 fee on this, this program is dead at Community Hospital,” he said. The largest share of sponsored workers fell into the umbrella “professional, scientific and technical services” category. DaVita didn’t respond to questions about its sponsored employees or whether it would continue to recruit overseas with a $100,000 fee.