{"id":981209,"date":"2025-12-20T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981209"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:50:21","slug":"go-back-to-quotas-maga-congressman-wants-to-end-h-1b-visas-and-dismantle-1965-immigration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/20\/go-back-to-quotas-maga-congressman-wants-to-end-h-1b-visas-and-dismantle-1965-immigration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Go back to quotas\u2019: MAGA congressman wants to end H-1B visas and dismantle 1965 immigration system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican congressman stirred a row after calling for an end to all US visa programmes and the repeal of the landmark 1965 Hart-Celler Act. The Act replaced nationality-based immigration quotas with a system focused on family reunification, skills and refugee admissions.Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee claimed that the country should return to a strict national quota system for immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Ogles made the comments during an interview with MAGA commentator Benny Johnson, where he said lawmakers were working on legislation to shut down the H-1B visa programme and halt all visas and rebuild the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican congressman stirred a row after calling for an end to all US visa programmes and the repeal of the landmark 1965 Hart-Celler Act. The Act replaced nationality-based immigration quotas with a system focused on family reunification, skills and refugee admissions.Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee claimed that the country should return to a strict national quota system for immigration. Ogles made the comments during an interview with MAGA commentator Benny Johnson, where he said lawmakers were working on legislation to shut down the H-1B visa programme and halt all visas and rebuild the system.<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981209","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=981209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}