#h-1b-visas

#h-1b-visas

Texas governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, ordered all state colleges and universities to freeze their applications for new H-1B visas, The Texas Tribune reported. The pause, announced Tuesday afternoon, will last until May 31, 2027, though some institutions may be able to proceed if granted written permission by the Texas Workforce Commission. "State government must lead by example and ensure that employment opportunities-particularly those funded with taxpayer dollars-are filled by Texans first," Abbott told the Tribune.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering state agencies and public universities in Texas to halt new petitions for H-1B visas. In a letter to Texas state agency heads on Tuesday, Abbott wrote that there had been "recent reports of abuse" in the program, which is designed to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the United States. "Texas state agencies and institutions of higher education collectively employ hundreds of thousands of Texans and have a significant role in shaping the State's labor market," Abbott wrote.

The company's couriers, known internally as " dashers," are a common sight as they zip around the US delivering food, groceries, and other goods to customers. Now, DoorDash is investing in new tech, including autonomous vehicles, as it looks to the future. CEO Tony Xu said on an earnings call in November that DoorDash would invest hundreds of millions of dollars this year in key initiatives, including a global tech platform for all its brands and autonomous tech.

Brad Smith/ISI Photos//Getty Images Among its more obvious faultsand there is no bigger one than the vicious clowns the president has appointed to run itthe administration's toxic spitball approach to immigration is almost completely incoherent. This administration is deliberately oblivious to consequences anyway, be they intended or unintended. However, its policies on H-1B visas is doing real world damage in many different places.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking proposing a regulatory rule to change the process by which cap-subject H-1B status applicants are selected by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for eligibility to file H-1B petitions in its annual lottery. This substantive change is part of the department's ongoing efforts to overhaul the H-1B system, including a $100,000 application fee.

Ingraham argued that visas would make it harder for Trump to achieve his goal of raising wages for US workers. You also do have to bring in talent, Trump countered. When Ingraham said the US already had plenty of talented people here, Trump responded no. You don't have certain talents. And you have to, people have to learn. You can't take people off, like an unemployment line, and say, I'm going to put you into a factory. We're going to make missiles,' he said.

Defending Trump's remarks during a panel debate on CNN NewsNight, Jennings insisted, He is supported by a great many people who see the value in highly specialized, talented people being able to come here. Host Abby Phillip replied, He's not really saying clearly what the policy ought to be, he's just saying we don't have talented people in the United States to do these jobs, which is not true.

Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, is urging the state's universities to stop hiring international employees through the H-1B visa program. DeSantis said he wants the Florida board of governors to pull the plug on the practice. Nearly 400 foreign nationals are currently employed at Florida's public universities under the H-1B visa program, reported the Orlando Sentinel. Universities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job, said DeSantis in a statement.

The lawsuit said the fee, which President Donald Trump put in place with an executive order last month, was "unlawful" and that it would harm American businesses. "The United States is unique in its ability to attract the brightest talent from across the globe. For more than 70 years, what is now known as the H-1B visa program has enabled the United States to harness this magnetic draw," the lawsuit said, adding that as a result of the new fee businesses would have to "dramatically increase their labor costs or hire fewer highly skilled employees for whom domestic replacements are not readily available."

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Two US senators have questions for Big Tech and other top companies over their use of H-1B visas amid the Trump administration's push to slow down foreign worker hiring practices. In letters sent to 10 companies on Wednesday, including Amazon, Apple, Deloitte, and JPMorgan Chase, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin said they were concerned about the use of H-1B visa workers while the tech sector experiences a "high unemployment rate."

President Donald Trump's new H-1B visa policy may hit Big Tech the hardest, but Wall Street is well within the blast zone. Big banks like JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citi have long used these work visas to hire a range of highly skilled overseas workers, from junior bankers to technologists and even risk managers and traders. Trump's late Friday executive order, which raised the application fee to $100,000 each, is expected to upend this hiring process in a way that could

Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that would impose an annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, dealing a potentially major blow to the US tech industry, which relies more than any other sector of the US economy on immigrants who hold these visas. Trump's threat to crack down on H-1B visas has become a major flashpoint with the tech industry.

Analysts said the impact should be moderate, given that the fees apply only to new applications, but warned that a constrained supply of skilled workers in the U.S. may push wages higher and squeeze margins. Companies including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Goldman Sachs were among those that sent urgent emails to their employees with travel advisories.