{"id":1010725,"date":"2026-05-29T09:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010725"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:01:40","slug":"ill-end-the-h-1b-scam-republican-candidate-for-florida-governor-2026-james-fishback-attacks-amazons-hiring-of-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/ill-end-the-h-1b-scam-republican-candidate-for-florida-governor-2026-james-fishback-attacks-amazons-hiring-of-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ll end the H-1B scam\u2019: Republican candidate for Florida governor 2026 James Fishback attacks Amazon\u2019s hiring of foreign workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Fishback, a former DOGE architect and hedge fund founder who has entered the 2026 Florida governor\u2019s race, has sparked debate online after criticising Amazon\u2019s use of H-1B visas in a viral post on X. <\/p>\n<p>Fishback accused the company of hiring foreign workers instead of Americans after it allegedly applied for more than 10,000 H-1B visas. In his post, he wrote, \u201cIf Amazon is not hiring right now; then why did they just hire 10,718 H-1B foreign labourers? H-1B\u2019s are stealing jobs from Floridians. I\u2019ll end the H-1B scam once and for all to protect jobs for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fishback, a former DOGE architect and hedge fund founder who has entered the 2026 Florida governor\u2019s race, has sparked debate online after criticising Amazon\u2019s use of H-1B visas in a viral post on X. Fishback accused the company of hiring foreign workers instead of Americans after it allegedly applied for more than 10,000 H-1B visas. In his post, he wrote, \u201cIf Amazon is not hiring right now; then why did they just hire 10,718 H-1B foreign labourers? H-1B\u2019s are stealing jobs from Floridians. I\u2019ll end the H-1B scam once and for all to protect jobs for us.\u201d<\/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-1010725","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\/1010725","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=1010725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010745,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010725\/revisions\/1010745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}