{"id":18408,"date":"2026-01-30T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-freezes-h-1b-visas-for-state-agencies-higher-education-amid-investigation-into-federal-program\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:22:21","slug":"texas-freezes-h-1b-visas-for-state-agencies-higher-education-amid-investigation-into-federal-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/texas-freezes-h-1b-visas-for-state-agencies-higher-education-amid-investigation-into-federal-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas freezes H-1B visas for state agencies, higher education amid investigation into federal program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Abbott announced an investigation into the federal H-1B visa program in &#8220;light of recent reports of abuse,&#8221; according to a letter signed by the governor. He directed all state agencies controlled by a gubernatorially appointed head and public institutions of higher education to freeze all H-1B visa applications until May 2027&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/nexstar_media_wire\/5708455-texas-freezes-h-1b-visas-for-state-agencies-higher-education-amid-investigation-into-federal-program\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Abbott announced an investigation into the federal H-1B visa program in &#8220;light of recent reports of abuse,&#8221; according to a letter signed by the governor. He directed all state agencies controlled by a gubernatorially appointed head and public institutions of higher education to freeze all H-1B visa applications until May 2027&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}