{"id":994803,"date":"2026-02-25T11:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994803"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:49:42","slug":"passport-not-mandatory-h-1bs-only-indian-origin-trump-aide-red-flags-illegal-us-tech-job-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/passport-not-mandatory-h-1bs-only-indian-origin-trump-aide-red-flags-illegal-us-tech-job-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Passport not mandatory, H-1Bs only\u2019: Indian-origin Trump aide red-flags \u2018illegal\u2019 US tech job ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, has once again flagged an unlawful hiring post strictly attracting H-1B visa holders for certain tech jobs in the United States. The Indian-origin official appointed by US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called out similar job advertisements outrightly disregarding or \u201cdiscriminating against\u201d American workers in her previous social media activity as well. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the raging row over H-1B hiring replacing American workers, the Trump administration has ramped up its immigration crackdown as part of its \u2018America First\u2019 approach. As a result, the MAGA leader has imposed even stricter rules focussed on a major overhaul of the \u2018specialty occupations\u2019 US visa category meant to attract skilled foreign talent to America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US Department of Justice, has once again flagged an unlawful hiring post strictly attracting H-1B visa holders for certain tech jobs in the United States. The Indian-origin official appointed by US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called out similar job advertisements outrightly disregarding or \u201cdiscriminating against\u201d American workers in her previous social media activity as well. Amid the raging row over H-1B hiring replacing American workers, the Trump administration has ramped up its immigration crackdown as part of its \u2018America First\u2019 approach. As a result, the MAGA leader has [&hellip;]<\/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-994803","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\/994803","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=994803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}