{"id":974190,"date":"2025-11-15T09:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974190"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T04:57:03","slug":"eliminate-corrupt-h-1b-program-marjorie-taylor-greenes-new-bill-targets-indian-techies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/15\/eliminate-corrupt-h-1b-program-marjorie-taylor-greenes-new-bill-targets-indian-techies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eliminate corrupt H-1B program\u2019: Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s new bill targets Indian techies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although once a staunch Donald Trump follower, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has recently appeared to divest from her prior MAGA ways. Just days after the US president softened his stance on the \u2018specialty occupations\u2019 non-immigrant H-1B visa, MTG is going her own way. <\/p>\n<p>Her efforts to have the US government put the brakes on the visa category particularly puts the target on Indian nationals working in America. Over 70% of H-1B visa holders in the US have been from India in recent years, as per the BBC. Moreover, reports suggest that roughly 30% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley are all Indians, according to the Economic Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although once a staunch Donald Trump follower, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene has recently appeared to divest from her prior MAGA ways. Just days after the US president softened his stance on the \u2018specialty occupations\u2019 non-immigrant H-1B visa, MTG is going her own way. Her efforts to have the US government put the brakes on the visa category particularly puts the target on Indian nationals working in America. Over 70% of H-1B visa holders in the US have been from India in recent years, as per the BBC. Moreover, reports suggest that roughly 30% of the tech workforce in Silicon Valley [&hellip;]<\/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-974190","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\/974190","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=974190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}