A federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee imposed by the Trump administration on new H-1B visa applications for highly skilled foreign workers, ruling the charge unlawful and exceeding executive authority.

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston sided with 20 Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the fee, which Trump announced in September and dramatically increased the cost of obtaining H-1B visas. The judge determined the administration had overstepped its bounds and that the fee usurped Congress's constitutional power to set immigration policy and taxes.

Separately, the Trump administration announced Monday it is seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of 17 foreign-born Americans accused of serious crimes and immigration fraud. The Department of Justice filed denaturalization actions in various federal district courts in what officials described as the largest such effort in U.S. history, marking an expansion of the administration's denaturalization campaign targeting the legal immigration system.

In another immigration development, Trump's border czar Tom Homan threatened to deploy "more ICE agents than you've ever seen" to New York City, saying he had reviewed plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations there as part of the administration's immigration crackdown.

Meanwhile, convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, currently serving a 25-year prison sentence for fraud, formally filed a request for a presidential pardon from Trump on Monday. The former cryptocurrency exchange leader was sentenced in 2024 following the collapse of his trading platform.

Congress is also moving toward approving $70 billion in funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection operations through Trump's presidency, according to legislative developments.