{"id":988321,"date":"2026-01-28T09:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988321"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:14:31","slug":"freeze-new-h-1b-visa-petitions-texas-governor-announces-big-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/freeze-new-h-1b-visa-petitions-texas-governor-announces-big-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Freeze new H-1B visa petitions\u2019: Texas governor announces big crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abott has followed in the footsteps of Florida Gov Ron DeSantis and ordered all state agencies and public universities to stop sponsoring news H-1B visa petitions for highly skilled foreign workers. <\/p>\n<p>Issuing a serious statement on X, Abbott adopted the \u201cTexans come first\u201d agenda as he spoke out about the state\u2019s taxpayers losing out on jobs to international workers. \u201cI\u2019m directing state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions. Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce. Those jobs should go to Texans,\u201d he wrote on X Tuesday (US time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Governor Greg Abott has followed in the footsteps of Florida Gov Ron DeSantis and ordered all state agencies and public universities to stop sponsoring news H-1B visa petitions for highly skilled foreign workers. Issuing a serious statement on X, Abbott adopted the \u201cTexans come first\u201d agenda as he spoke out about the state\u2019s taxpayers losing out on jobs to international workers. \u201cI\u2019m directing state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions. Texas taxpayers invest billions to train our workforce. Those jobs should go to Texans,\u201d he wrote on X Tuesday (US time).<\/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-988321","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\/988321","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=988321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}