{"id":958012,"date":"2025-08-27T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958012"},"modified":"2025-08-27T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:52:10","slug":"time-to-pause-h-1b-visas-us-senator-mike-lee-makes-a-pitch-after-walmart-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/27\/time-to-pause-h-1b-visas-us-senator-mike-lee-makes-a-pitch-after-walmart-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Time to pause H-1B visas\u2019, US senator Mike Lee makes a pitch after Walmart controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Mike Lee has joined the list of Republican politicians and Donald Trump-appointees rebuffing the H-1B visa program, a nonimmigrant classification famously dominated by Indian nationals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it time to pause H1B visas\u201d the Republican from Utah wrote on X, alluding to a post referencing the now-infamous claims of a \u201cWalmart scam,\u201d which hinted at a scandal targeting the retailer\u2019s H-1B-holding employees. Initial reports, picking up initially unverified claims from the professional platform Blind, also suggested that vice president tied to the Global Tech\u2019s team was fired for the same reason. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Mike Lee has joined the list of Republican politicians and Donald Trump-appointees rebuffing the H-1B visa program, a nonimmigrant classification famously dominated by Indian nationals. \u201cIs it time to pause H1B visas\u201d the Republican from Utah wrote on X, alluding to a post referencing the now-infamous claims of a \u201cWalmart scam,\u201d which hinted at a scandal targeting the retailer\u2019s H-1B-holding employees. Initial reports, picking up initially unverified claims from the professional platform Blind, also suggested that vice president tied to the Global Tech\u2019s team was fired for the same reason.<\/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-958012","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\/958012","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=958012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}