Posted on 01/18/2016 7:56:03 AM PST by Red Steel
Senator Cruz has massively flip-flopped from championing high-skilled immigration as an "unambiguous good" and calling for a 500% increase in H-1Bs and a needed, substantial increase in green cards to now saying immigrants take jobs from native-born workers and depress wages. It is simply inconceivable to see these 2013 and 2015 positions are anything other than political posturing from the self-professed "purity" candidate.
The group cites a number of Cruz quotes including this from 2013: "I think high-tech immigrants are an unambiguous good for economy and for our country. And I think bringing more high-skill, high-tech immigrants to this country generates economic growth, produces jobs, and so I don't think it makes sense to arbitrarily cap it at a low number." Now, of course, Cruz is parroting Donald Trump and other anti-immigration hard-liners in an ad: "I can tell you, for millions of Americans at home watching this, it is a very personal economic issue. And, I will say the politics of it will be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande....
I suspect his original view - announced when it was still "safe" on the far right to support legal immigration -- is Cruz's actual view.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Leftists, GOPe, and Trump bots are sure giving Cruz a lot of flak.
He must be on target.
There is no shame in changing your position if you investigate the facts and find things are different than you supposed.
If you take what big companies are saying, they are importing brilliant PhDs to do important work under H1B visas. That might well be justified. However, when you find out they’re really importing cheap contract labor to cut costs, then that’s a different story entirely.
H1-B Ted was for them before he was against them.
She sure doesn't look like a Conservative Woman!
Just saying...
Let’s do the totals. If you and Rubin are right here is the score I figure:
Cruz - 2
DT - thousands.
Flip flops
Cruz - zero.
DT - thousands? Way to many to count.
Could you please explain the few against Cruz mean something and the thousands against DT do not matter?
Especially politicians and lawyers.
And sometimes someone is so full of crap that the “flak” is just everyone recognizing bullish!t for what it is.
Huckabee’s stupid comment ‘if you’re getting flak it means you;re over the target” is a pretty dumb measure of the validity of a position; by that standard NMBLA and the KKK must be near the target since the vast majority of public comment is hostile.
Cruz was dead wrong earlier. As to if he sincerely has changed (one hopes) or is just being a typical politician and saying whatever will get him nominated or elected remains to be seen.
and Real Estate developers
and Casino operators
Sounds like a GEICO commercial, “If you’re a politician, you lie....it’s what you do.”
Jebbifer Rubin is doing her usual propaganda for The Cheap Labor Express.
Jebbifer, Yeb! is not going to be nominated.
So that statement was originated by Huckabee??
yeah there goes your credibility
Jennifer Rubin has New Jersey values.
She looks like obama in drag.
Cruz’s change seems to me to pale when compared to the explanation owed by others when it comes to changing views:
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/trump-in-1999-i-am-very-pro-choice-480297539914
Yes.
Trump: “I would get people out and then have an expedited way of getting them back into the country so they can be legal. A lot of these people are helping us and sometimes it’s jobs a citizen of the United States doesn’t want to do. I want to move ‘em out, and we’re going to move ‘em back in and let them be legal.”
But that flip-flop-flip tendency could NEVER apply to Trump, now could it? If Ted Cruz is a liar, a globalist, a Canadian Manchurian candidate, in the pocket of big international banks and every other damned thing that he’s been accused of lately, why are the RNC, the DNC, Donald Trump and George Soros so opposed to his candidacy?
I know, it’s a ruse to secretly get him elected by making it “appear” as if he really is the outsider. Right!
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