{"id":974040,"date":"2025-11-14T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974040"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:03:43","slug":"freeze-all-immigration-us-lawmaker-plans-bill-amid-trumps-shifting-stance-on-h1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/14\/freeze-all-immigration-us-lawmaker-plans-bill-amid-trumps-shifting-stance-on-h1b\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Freeze all immigration\u2019: US lawmaker plans bill amid Trump&#8217;s shifting stance on H1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Chip Roy has announced plans to introduce a bill calling for a \u201cfreeze on all immigration\u201d to the United States \u2014 a move that comes amid President Donald Trump\u2019s tougher stance on the issue and recent H-1B visa reforms that have already unsettled Indian professionals. Indians make up nearly 70% of all H-1B holders, according to recent data.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a show by political commentator Benny Johnson, Republic leader Roy, who represents Texas\u2019s 21st Congressional District, said the proposed legislation would block all forms of immigration \u201cuntil certain objectives are achieved&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Chip Roy has announced plans to introduce a bill calling for a \u201cfreeze on all immigration\u201d to the United States \u2014 a move that comes amid President Donald Trump\u2019s tougher stance on the issue and recent H-1B visa reforms that have already unsettled Indian professionals. Indians make up nearly 70% of all H-1B holders, according to recent data. Speaking on a show by political commentator Benny Johnson, Republic leader Roy, who represents Texas\u2019s 21st Congressional District, said the proposed legislation would block all forms of immigration \u201cuntil certain objectives are achieved&#8221;.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974040","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=974040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}