{"id":988260,"date":"2026-01-28T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988260"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:09:06","slug":"h-1b-visa-freeze-in-texas-governor-greg-abbott-says-texans-come-first-in-local-employment-push-bans-chinese-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/h-1b-visa-freeze-in-texas-governor-greg-abbott-says-texans-come-first-in-local-employment-push-bans-chinese-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa freeze in Texas: Governor Greg Abbott says \u2018Texans come first\u2019 in local employment push; bans Chinese firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday (local time) ordered a freeze on H-1B visas for highly skilled workers in state agencies and universities, calling for jobs to go to qualified Texans instead of immigrants. He also announced a ban on China-linked firms from state systems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Texans come first,&#8221; wrote Abbott on X, making the announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday (local time) ordered a freeze on H-1B visas for highly skilled workers in state agencies and universities, calling for jobs to go to qualified Texans instead of immigrants. He also announced a ban on China-linked firms from state systems. &#8220;Texans come first,&#8221; wrote Abbott on X, making the announcement.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988260","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=988260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}