A federal judge in Boston just struck down President Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, calling it an unlawful "tax" that Congress never authorized. Because apparently the one thing our judiciary can move quickly on is making sure corporations can keep importing cheap labor from India while Americans update their LinkedIn profiles.

How refreshing. A 42-page ruling to protect the sacred right of tech companies to underpay foreign workers instead of hiring your kid out of college.

U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin — based in Boston, naturally — issued the ruling after Democratic state attorneys general challenged the fee back in December. Trump had signed the proclamation establishing the $100,000 payment back in September as part of his ongoing effort to force companies to actually consider, you know, Americans for American jobs. But Judge Sorokin wasn't having it.

"The substance and application of the $100,000 payment reveal that it is a tax, regardless of what the payment is called," Sorokin wrote in his ruling. "The Policy implementing the Proclamation is declared unlawful and is vacated in its entirety."

Vacated in its entirety. Not trimmed. Not adjusted. Nuked from orbit.

The H-1B visa program has been a golden pipeline for corporations — predominantly funneling workers from India into jobs that American graduates are perfectly qualified to do, but at salaries American graduates can't survive on. Trump's $100,000 fee was designed to make companies think twice before reflexively reaching overseas. It was elegant. It was effective. And now it's gone because a judge decided the president overstepped.

Here's what drives you crazy about this. The Administrative Procedure Act — the legal basis Sorokin used to torch the fee — is the same bureaucratic weapon the left deploys every single time a Republican president tries to actually do something. Trump cuts regulations? APA challenge. Trump reforms immigration? APA challenge. Trump breathes in a way Democrats don't like? Believe it or not, APA challenge.

The White House isn't taking this lying down. Spokesperson Taylor Rogers said the administration is "confident this order will be reversed on appeal." And they should be — because the idea that a president can't set conditions on visa programs that directly affect American workers is absurd on its face.

But here's the real story, while this works its way through the appeals courts — which could take months — every corporation in Silicon Valley just got the green light to flood their applications. The fee is gone. The deterrent is gone. The only people celebrating tonight are HR departments at companies that were already shopping for cheaper talent overseas.

We voted for Trump specifically because of stuff like this. Protecting American jobs isn't some fringe position — it's the whole point. And one judge in Boston just decided his interpretation of tax law matters more than whether your neighbor can find work in his own country.

Appeal it. Win it. And make the fee $200,000 next time.