{"id":1001980,"date":"2026-04-09T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001980"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:05:57","slug":"h-1b-is-a-scam-congressman-brandon-gill-sparks-firestorm-demands-visa-program-be-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/h-1b-is-a-scam-congressman-brandon-gill-sparks-firestorm-demands-visa-program-be-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H-1B is a scam\u2019: Congressman Brandon Gill sparks firestorm, demands Visa program be axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican lawmaker from Texas has called for ending the H-1B visa programme after a viral video showed an Indian worker at a 7-Eleven store claiming to be on the visa. Congressman Brandon Gill reacted strongly to the clip, writing, \u201cH-1B is a scam and should be abolished.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Viral video sparks debate <\/p>\n<p>The controversy began when YouTuber Tyler Oliveira shared a video from a 7-Eleven store in Texas. In the video, he speaks to an employee who says he is from Andhra Pradesh in India and is in the United States on an H-1B visa, which is meant for skilled workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican lawmaker from Texas has called for ending the H-1B visa programme after a viral video showed an Indian worker at a 7-Eleven store claiming to be on the visa. Congressman Brandon Gill reacted strongly to the clip, writing, \u201cH-1B is a scam and should be abolished.\u201d Viral video sparks debate The controversy began when YouTuber Tyler Oliveira shared a video from a 7-Eleven store in Texas. In the video, he speaks to an employee who says he is from Andhra Pradesh in India and is in the United States on an H-1B visa, which is meant for skilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}