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The legality only hinges on one rule that says visa fees can only be about recovering costs and processing-related work, not more. Otherwise, implementation of all visa-related issues is under the executive. The congress only sets up a broad framework (category, number under that category etc).

That this rule does not apply to existing visa holders.

I'm glad to read that, but if I were a H-1B holder I sure wouldn't want to test it. The example of the Koreans in the battery plant suggests the coordination is not great.

The whole EO is completely moot if it doesn't affect current visa holders. If the intent is to only affect future petitions, then the people who get H1B through that won't enter the US until October 2026, after this EO expires. Also if that's the intent, then it would just deny visas, not entry.

Extremely Black Mirror shit to imagine some border agent looking at the official memo he got from his boss, and also a social media feed, trying to figure out which one is authoritative

It’s almost like they’re making this up as they go along and this isn’t based on a rational strategy.

I feel like continuing to refer to it as Twitter ignores what was deliberately done to it. It's Istanbul, not Constantinople… been a long time gone! 😜