You’re not seeing the big picture of taking the 500% increase from what is legally allowed in AFTER enacting enforcement on the border against illegal immigration.
There is NO enforcement right now.
Do you think he is pushing for amnesty then add a %500 increase?
I don’t think so.
But that would still be an increase on the one million or so legal immigrants we admit each year. I’m not talking about the number of illegal aliens who make it in each year, just legal levels. It would go from approximately 65,000 H1B visas a year to 325,000, an increas of 260,000 legal immigrants per year.
I commend Cruz for being consistenly good on illegal immigration. He does not support a path to citizenship, which is great. I think allowing (most of) them to stay will eventually make citizenship inevitable (afterall, who but a latino-hating racist would want to deny a legalized illegal full citizenship...is what you’d hear about 5 seconds after a legalization-without-citizenship-bill is signed into law), but I’ll give Cruz the benefit of the doubt in thinking that he thinks that can be avoided.
But as to H1B visas again. If Cruz thinks we needs such a massive increase so much (despite their being no real shortage of such workers and graduates),then why not call for the increase against a decrease elsewhere? Why not call for abolishhing Ted Kennedy’s absurd Diversity Lottery visas? That’s 50,000 a year right there? Why not call for drastic reductions in refugee and asylum visas? That would lessen our chances of getting scum like the Boston Marathon bommbers or the wannabe Somali jihadists out of Minnesota. Why not cut of chain migration by restricting family based visas to spouses and minor children? My point is, there are a lot of places that could be cut to make way for the additional H1B visas Cruz thinks we are in such dire need of. Why does it always have to be more overall?
Cruz would "deny citizenship". A completely absurd condition because so few Illegals desire it. They demand Legal Status, which is exactly what Cruz will give them. But because citizenship is something most Conservatives hold in reverence, they get suckered into thinking it's a major concession from the "migrant rights" crowd.
Bottom line with Cruz, we might get some actual border enforcement, most of the Illegals stay, and foreigners will enjoy a more open, easier immigration process.