Texas invested billions to fight cancer. Abbott’s H-1B visas restrictions may stall research, some warn


Texas spent billions recruiting scientists from around the world to turn the state into a cancer-research powerhouse. Now, nearly six months after Gov. Greg Abbott restricted public institutions’ use of the H-1B visa program, cancer advocates and immigration attorneys warn the policy could undercut that strategy. At MD Anderson Cancer Center, researchers holding H-1B work […]
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