The president on Friday signed an executive order adding a $100,000 fee for high-skilled workers to enter the country through the H-1B visa program. The H-1B program is popular among businesses — but critiqued across the political spectrumMore than half a million U.S. residents are in the United States on H-1B visas, according to a U.S. government estimate in 2020. But some immigration-focused groups blasted the president’s changes to the H-1B program. Big Tech companies, and their billionaire founders, have spent this year trying to woo TrumpWhatever the ultimate impact on workers, Trump’s steep new fee for H-1B visas is a slap in the face for the tech industry, which hires thousands of foreign-born workers every year. This year, Amazon has sponsored the highest number of workers on H-1B visas, followed by Tata, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google.