{"id":995060,"date":"2026-02-26T12:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995060"},"modified":"2026-02-26T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:44:30","slug":"i-am-an-immigrant-trump-aide-harmeet-k-dhillon-explains-why-she-is-against-h-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/i-am-an-immigrant-trump-aide-harmeet-k-dhillon-explains-why-she-is-against-h-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I am an immigrant&#8217;: Trump aide Harmeet K Dhillon explains why she is against H-1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-American lawyer and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US. Department of Justice Harmeet K Dhillon said she is an immigrant and came to the US on a visa but the idea that the government is funding institutions that disproportionately hire H-1B visa and other legal immigrant visa categories when there are Americans who could fill those jobs is problematic. Dhillon said this on Christopher Rufo&#8217;s podcast amid a growing resistance towards the H-1B visa program that allows companies to hire Indians and Chinese and other skilled professionals from foreign countries.<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon is quite active on social media and every time an H-1B abuse is flagged, she responds &#8212; promising action or seeking more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian-American lawyer and the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the US. Department of Justice Harmeet K Dhillon said she is an immigrant and came to the US on a visa but the idea that the government is funding institutions that disproportionately hire H-1B visa and other legal immigrant visa categories when there are Americans who could fill those jobs is problematic. Dhillon said this on Christopher Rufo&#8217;s podcast amid a growing resistance towards the H-1B visa program that allows companies to hire Indians and Chinese and other skilled professionals from foreign countries. Dhillon is quite active on social [&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-995060","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\/995060","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=995060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}