'Absolutely incredible': Trump's immigration scheme blows up in his face

President Donald Trump instituted a drastic change to the legal immigration process in recent months, implementing a new $100,000 fee for noncitizens to enter the United States on an H-1B visa, a program used to import high-skilled workers like engineers.

However, with the program in force, the net effect has been a drop in revenue for the government.

The simple reason for this? Far fewer people are applying for H-1B visas, to the point that the government is collecting less in application...