It’s going to be hard for the Republicans to field a presidential candidate as enthusiastic about the H-1B visa as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Cruz, who announced his presidential bid this morning, once proposed an immediate increase in the base H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill.
Cruz’s amendment was defeated by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, which approved an 180,000 H-1B cap increase in the comprehensive immigration bill. The House never acted on this legislation.
Cruz is part of large group of politicians who will not acknowledge the H-1B’s visas use in offshore outsourcing or the reality of U.S. workers who are forced to train their visa-holding replacements. In defending this H-1B increase, Cruz cited a study by the American Enterprise Institute, which argued that visa workers create jobs. This organization primarily represents the views of large companies and asset management firms.
It’s the one issue I don;t agree with Cruz. SO even Cruz is not 100% perfect.
This is a huge issue. Cruz is my man but what is this all about? Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can clarify? And of course it would take more than one bill to make me change my vote.
You’re right, Cruz does speak enthusiastically about LEGAL immigration. So did Walker, or it seems by his record. BUT, Cruz didn’t go on Beck and say that we should curb legal immigration.
So, the Walker Campaign had to anticipate the question— “Gov. Walker, should we curb legal immigration, except for legal immigration that benefits Wisconsin?”
All I say here is, politically, he should have stopped at illegal immigration.