Florida Governor Ron DeSantis instructed college and university authorities of his state to stop hiring foreign speciality workers on H-1B visas. At a press conference in Tampa, DeSantis said only Americans should be recruited in Florida colleges and universities and if that can't be done, then "we need to really look deeply about what is going on with the situation". He said the Board of Governors should fully pull the plug on the H-1B visa program. “Why aren’t we producing math and engineering folks who can do this?” DeSantis questioned. “[There’s] a clinical assistant professor from supposed Palestine. Why are they—is that just social justice that they’re doing?” The direction comes as the Donald Trump administration imposed a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications in an attempt

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