{"id":1028804,"date":"2026-08-14T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028804"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T05:23:09","slug":"nick-long-mayor-of-league-city-in-texas-joins-h-1b-visa-debate-says-h-1b-program-should-not-be-used-by-any","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/14\/nick-long-mayor-of-league-city-in-texas-joins-h-1b-visa-debate-says-h-1b-program-should-not-be-used-by-any\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Long, Mayor of League City in Texas, joins H-1B visa debate; says: H-1B program should not be used by any &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Long, Mayor of League City in Texas has joined the H-1b visa debate publicly. Long recently said in an X post that no public organisation should use the H-1B program, arguing taxpayer-funded jobs should go to taxpayers in response to Texas State University&#8217;s filing for a Public Relations Specialist role. Nick Long\u2019s comments came in response to a post announcing that the Texas State University (@txst) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Public Relations administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The debate began after Texas State University filed a notice of intent to sponsor an H-1B visa for a Public Relations Specialist position. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Long, Mayor of League City in Texas has joined the H-1b visa debate publicly. Long recently said in an X post that no public organisation should use the H-1B program, arguing taxpayer-funded jobs should go to taxpayers in response to Texas State University&#8217;s filing for a Public Relations Specialist role. Nick Long\u2019s comments came in response to a post announcing that the Texas State University (@txst) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Public Relations administrator. The debate began after Texas State University filed a notice of intent to sponsor an H-1B visa for a Public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028804","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028805,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028804\/revisions\/1028805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}