{"id":955917,"date":"2025-08-19T08:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=955917"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:04:31","slug":"layoffs-need-to-target-h-1b-visa-holders-american-worker-urges-congress-to-pass-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/19\/layoffs-need-to-target-h-1b-visa-holders-american-worker-urges-congress-to-pass-law\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Layoffs need to target H-1B visa holders\u2019: American worker urges Congress to pass law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American worker made waves on Monday after calling for laws \u2018targeting\u2019 H1B visa holders for layoffs. The Amazon employee opined that such individuals did not have ties to the US beyond their jobs \u2014 with the option of returning to their home countries and looking for jobs. The post \u2014 shared anonymously on the TeamBlind website \u2014 has since sparked heated debate with many noting that the US was \u201cbuilt by immigrants\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American worker made waves on Monday after calling for laws \u2018targeting\u2019 H1B visa holders for layoffs. The Amazon employee opined that such individuals did not have ties to the US beyond their jobs \u2014 with the option of returning to their home countries and looking for jobs. The post \u2014 shared anonymously on the TeamBlind website \u2014 has since sparked heated debate with many noting that the US was \u201cbuilt by immigrants\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-955917","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\/955917","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=955917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}