{"id":988878,"date":"2026-01-30T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988878"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:36:50","slug":"they-came-here-had-babies-texas-gov-called-out-for-h-1b-crackdown-reminded-he-praised-indian-investment-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/they-came-here-had-babies-texas-gov-called-out-for-h-1b-crackdown-reminded-he-praised-indian-investment-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They came here, had babies&#8217;: Texas gov called out for H-1B crackdown; reminded he praised Indian investment in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US podcaster and influencer Kyle Seraphin called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his H-1B crackdown in Texas, not because he does not support it but as it does not serve the purpose now. Seraphin said it is too late and too little to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities after what Abbott did in 2024. H-1Bs came to Texas, set up shop, had babies and took over neighborhoods, Kyle said targeting Indians &#8212; though H-1Bs can be from any countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was wondering why Texas imported so many Indians. This makes more sense. Gov Abbott just froze new H1Bs in Texas&#8230; too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US podcaster and influencer Kyle Seraphin called out Texas Governor Greg Abbott for his H-1B crackdown in Texas, not because he does not support it but as it does not serve the purpose now. Seraphin said it is too late and too little to freeze H-1B hiring in state agencies and universities after what Abbott did in 2024. H-1Bs came to Texas, set up shop, had babies and took over neighborhoods, Kyle said targeting Indians &#8212; though H-1Bs can be from any countries. &#8220;I was wondering why Texas imported so many Indians. This makes more sense. Gov Abbott just froze [&hellip;]<\/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-988878","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\/988878","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=988878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}