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‘’Cruz still stands behind the 500% increase in H1-Bs, but he does now say he will suspend the program for 180 days for evaluation.’
I don’t understand why he can’t evaluate it, now.’’
An excellent question.
01. There are scores of well written analyses in existence, for example:
http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/67ae7163-6616-4023-a5c4-534c53e6fc26/immigration-primer-for-the-114th-congress.pdf
02. The hold is meaningless because the annual allotment of H-1B’s is ‘sold out’ within in a few days of being issued.
But there’s nothing like a good dog and pony show called a congressional investigation to distract the masses LOL.
Are these meaningless? From https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan/:
Amend the H-1B visa program to fulfill its original purpose: Work with Congress to pass reform legislation for the H-1B visa program that will:
"Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371276/posts