[Dr.Deth]

H-1B's typically have a marketable skill over and above drywall or trimming hedges. This would not be a detriment in combination with: mass deportation (that is, immediate repatriation for any arrested illegal, including transfer of prison sentences for felons, and self-deportation through enforcing hiring violations), and rolling back the wink-wink FedGov policies that 90% of legal immigration must come from third-world hellholes or else you're a stinking racist.

[central_va]

I massive layoff in the 1990's and H-1B replacements almost cost me my house and put severe strain in my marriage. I have been personally affected by this monsterous program that needs to die. It is a huge program that had flown under the radar for a long time.

Funny thing the department that I worked in that was layed off most off us were brought back in 6 months later as contractors to clean up the mess the H-1b losers made. Out of the 30 or so a few were decent. That's about it.

[peyton randolph]

H-1B's typically have a marketable skill

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The problem is that marketable skill means Indians, Pakis, Filipinos, etc. coming here to displace U.S. workers by getting paid 1/3 the salary for the same job done by the U.S. citizen they replace. They're willing to live multiple families to a house (ghetto builders) to cut costs so they can afford the pay cut (that's a raise by what they'd make in their home countries). And they vote Democrat.

Cruz essentially screws the American skilled worker by advocating radical expansion of the H1-B visa program rather than reduction or temporary suspension to protect American workers. Since Trump entered the arena, Cruz has been silent on the visa issue. However, I still haven't heard him take a stance contrary to the one where he wanted a 500% increase in the number of such visas.