{"id":975932,"date":"2025-11-22T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975932"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T05:37:34","slug":"h-1b-visa-holders-are-average-grade-labour-indian-origin-howard-professor-sparks-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/h-1b-visa-holders-are-average-grade-labour-indian-origin-howard-professor-sparks-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H-1B visa holders are average-grade labour\u2019: Indian-origin howard professor sparks debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin scholar Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University and one of the most outspoken critics of the H-1B visa, has once again questioned how the program works in the US. In a post on X, Hira wrote that a \u201csignificant number of H-1B visa holders are average-grade labor that could be supplied domestically.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>With Indians forming the largest share of H-1B holders, Hira\u2019s criticism was bound to get noticed. As the son of Indian immigrants who arrived in the US in the 1950s, long before the H-1B system was introduced, his take naturally invited more discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-origin scholar Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University and one of the most outspoken critics of the H-1B visa, has once again questioned how the program works in the US. In a post on X, Hira wrote that a \u201csignificant number of H-1B visa holders are average-grade labor that could be supplied domestically.\u201d With Indians forming the largest share of H-1B holders, Hira\u2019s criticism was bound to get noticed. As the son of Indian immigrants who arrived in the US in the 1950s, long before the H-1B system was introduced, his take naturally invited more discussion.<\/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-975932","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\/975932","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=975932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}