Is Trump’s $100k H-1B fee backed by data — or by mood swings?

$100,000 is a lot of money. It can buy 62 MacBook Pros, cover at least two Americans’ student loans, and bankroll a year’s rent in New York.
So while announcing the $100,000 fee for new H-1B applications, US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick — standing beside US president

Donald Trump

— said that the price tag was a filter: “Is the person valuable enough to have a $100,000 … payment to the government?”