{"id":991349,"date":"2026-02-11T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991349"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:45:28","slug":"american-workers-have-been-ripped-off-us-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-end-h1b-visa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/11\/american-workers-have-been-ripped-off-us-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-end-h1b-visa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American workers have been ripped off\u2019: US lawmaker introduces bill to end H1B visa program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US lawmaker has introduced a bill to end the H-1B visa program, saying corporations have repeatedly abused this system and imported cheaper foreign labour into America. <\/p>\n<p>US Representative Greg Steube, a Republican from Florida, introduced the \u2018Ending Exploitative Imported Labour Exemptions Act or EXILE Act&#8217;, a bill that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by ending the H-1B visa program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US lawmaker has introduced a bill to end the H-1B visa program, saying corporations have repeatedly abused this system and imported cheaper foreign labour into America. US Representative Greg Steube, a Republican from Florida, introduced the \u2018Ending Exploitative Imported Labour Exemptions Act or EXILE Act&#8217;, a bill that would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by ending the H-1B visa program.<\/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":[84,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991349","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=991349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}