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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed state universities to stop hiring foreign workers on H1B visas.

The H1B visa program allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations.

The University of Florida's interim president, for example, said the institution will conduct its own review of the program.

Florida’s higher education institutions must stop hiring foreign workers on , Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

“I am directing today the to pull the plug on the use of these H1B visas in ,” DeSantis said at an event in Tampa on Oct. 29. “We can do it with our residents in Florida or with Americans.

“And if we can’t do it, then man, we need to really look deeply about what is going on with this situation.”

DeSantis has been critical of the H1B program, which he

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