{"id":25224,"date":"2025-10-29T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25224\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:26:09","slug":"gov-desantis-calls-for-florida-universities-to-stop-hiring-foreign-workers-on-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/25224\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. DeSantis calls for Florida universities to stop hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to \u201cpull the plug\u201d on visas for foreign workers at public universities in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The governor announced his plan to direct the state Board of Governors to stop hiring employees on H-1B visas during a news conference at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the announcement, he listed positions at Florida universities held by immigrants on visas and questioned why an American couldn\u2019t fill the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cClinical assistant professor from the West Bank, Clinical assistant professor from supposed \u2018Palestine,\u2019 Why are they&#8230; Is that just social justice that they\u2019re doing? And that\u2019s the University of Florida,\u201d said DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2025\/10\/28\/florida-democrats-urge-desantis-declare-emergency-over-snap-shutdown\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida Democrats urge DeSantis to declare emergency over SNAP shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He argues that universities should be able to find employees from this country, especially since they are in the business of educating the next generation of workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Foreign students at state universities use F-1 visas, which would not be impacted by the governor\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Gov. Ron DeSantis announced plans to \u201cpull the plug\u201d on visas for foreign workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2683,28,30,29,19175,19173,7289,19169,19170,19171,7206,2511,2512,3650,1537,19172,19174],"class_list":["post-25224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-universities","tag-foreign-workers","tag-gov-ron-desantis","tag-h-1b","tag-h1b","tag-hb1","tag-immigrant","tag-uf","tag-university-of-florida","tag-university-of-south-florida","tag-usf","tag-visa","tag-work-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}