{"id":974790,"date":"2025-11-18T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974790"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T06:37:35","slug":"h1-b-visa-row-elon-musk-stirs-uproar-as-he-claims-americans-cant-do-challenging-physical-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/18\/h1-b-visa-row-elon-musk-stirs-uproar-as-he-claims-americans-cant-do-challenging-physical-work\/","title":{"rendered":"H1-B visa row: Elon Musk stirs uproar as he claims Americans can&#8217;t do \u2018challenging physical work\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has sparked a new controversy amidst the ongoing H-1B debate by asserting that there is a significant shortage of individuals in America capable of performing demanding physical labor. He remarked that Americans are often unwilling to undergo training for such roles.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s statement came in response to Ford CEO Jim Farley&#8217;s recent warning that the company is having difficulty filling 5,000 mechanic positions, which offer an annual salary of $120,000. The timing of Musk&#8217;s remarks is particularly significant, as many are suggesting that Americans are deficient in various skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has sparked a new controversy amidst the ongoing H-1B debate by asserting that there is a significant shortage of individuals in America capable of performing demanding physical labor. He remarked that Americans are often unwilling to undergo training for such roles. Musk&#8217;s statement came in response to Ford CEO Jim Farley&#8217;s recent warning that the company is having difficulty filling 5,000 mechanic positions, which offer an annual salary of $120,000. The timing of Musk&#8217;s remarks is particularly significant, as many are suggesting that Americans are deficient in various skills.<\/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-974790","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\/974790","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=974790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}