{"id":987331,"date":"2026-01-23T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987331"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:34:12","slug":"h-1bs-are-taking-american-jobs-florida-set-to-ban-new-h-1b-hires-at-state-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/23\/h-1bs-are-taking-american-jobs-florida-set-to-ban-new-h-1b-hires-at-state-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H-1Bs are taking American jobs\u2019: Florida set to ban new H-1B hires at state universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is moving towards a one-year freeze on new H-1B visa hiring across its state university system, a proposal supporters say is meant to protect American jobs and cut reliance on foreign labour. The plan is expected to be introduced by Florida\u2019s Board of Governors at its January 29, 2026 meeting and would prevent public universities from bringing in new faculty or staff on H-1B visas until early 2027. The move follows an earlier directive from Governor Ron DeSantis and has sparked debate over talent recruitment and immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>What Florida is proposing for new H-1B hiring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is moving towards a one-year freeze on new H-1B visa hiring across its state university system, a proposal supporters say is meant to protect American jobs and cut reliance on foreign labour. The plan is expected to be introduced by Florida\u2019s Board of Governors at its January 29, 2026 meeting and would prevent public universities from bringing in new faculty or staff on H-1B visas until early 2027. The move follows an earlier directive from Governor Ron DeSantis and has sparked debate over talent recruitment and immigration policy. What Florida is proposing for new H-1B hiring<\/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-987331","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\/987331","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=987331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}