Posted on 11/12/2015 1:29:53 PM PST by conservativejoy
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Well said. I think Trump has really changed the dynamic of this election. He has done more to destroy the media's and establishment's credibility then anyone I can think of. My concern with him is his almost overnight conversion to conservatism.
Cruz is the same conservative now as he was before he went to DC. Not to many people can claim that! I'm convinced that the media don't cover him to much because they know when people get to know him they will realize how sharp he is and how well thought out his conservatism is.
Stay tuned for the legislation he and Sessions are co-authoring.
I do not agree with bringing in H-1B workers to replace normal workers.
If a foreign national has some ground-breaking knowledge or expertise not common here, then okay.
Even then, it shouldn’t be at the expense of other workers.
The idea is to bring in knowledge that will increase U. S. productivity and jobs, not eliminate them.
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Then you believe precisely as Ted Cruz does. Anyone who hasn’t listened to Laura’s interview (above link) should listen to it. It expresses Ted’s beliefs now and it also expresses the beliefs that he and Sessions had back when they were fighting the GANG OF EIGHT/MARCO RUBIO AMNESTY legislation.
Neither Ted Cruz nor Jeff Sessions has flipped-flopped on these issues, but a whole lot of misinformation has been put out by Cruz’ enemies (i.e., GOPe allies/backers of Marco Rubio). A number of misinformed FReepers were fooled by this FUD that was put out.
Cruz is by far the best candidate available. His stance on H1B has not changed; it has been misrepresented.
He always has. Only the dense and the wedge trolls make it out to be otherwise.
There are obviously candidates, like Marco Rubio, who are completely disingenuous when they pretend to care about immigration enforcement and/or American workers.
Cruz obviously cares about this subject, it's just a question of what his priorities are.
Most of the Republican field is terrible on this issue, e.g. Bush, Kasich, Christie, Carson-among others-but that doesn't necessarily mean that their opponents are willing to do what's necessary to prevent more damage from unfettered immigration.
He also addresses TPP in this interview briefly at the end. He did not get into depth on it because time ran out, but he does not support the TPP.
A year ago he was against deportations. Where does he stand now?
To me the issue is really deportation. Fer it, or agin it? At last look, Ted was agin’ it.
Actually Trump has not addressed the H1-B issue directly. He is for protecting American Workers but hasn’t addressed this issue head on. I have no doubt he will support the reform legislation. Trump is all about America first.
The program as it is now is supposed to protect American workers but the corporations just ignore the law as there are no consequences.
That may be the case. What I find hard to fathom is more than 100,000 people globally having ground-breaking knowledge that will increase jobs here.
Then he wanted to triple it. Lost me right there.
There simply aren’t 300,000 people globally that have that kind of knowledge. We may be talking 10,000 at the most. I may be a bit low, but I’d like to start low and have someone convince me.
I agree. Cruz’s deafness to the cries of displaced Americans will, and should, haunt him for a very long time. That the smartest candidate did not see the problem sooner just doesn’t compute. Is his finger in the wind?????
Good point. Those that have railed against Cruz on this issue completely overlooked that qualifying aspect of the increase being tied to equal wages.
Spin. He knew and did not care about the American worker. Cruz is suspect now.
You do know that the increase was contingent upon companies paying the same wages that American workers get, effectively assuring there would be no increase. The whole plan was a chess move on Cruz’s part to defeat the Gang of 8.
Equal wages, a $5000 fine for each incident of hiring a foreign employee when Americans are available, no path to citizenship included.
He has never been against deportation. His stance is and always has been that we secure the border and enforce the law. He has been addressing deportation on the campaign trail and how the goal can be accomplished. We won’t have to deport all of them, when the incentives dry up, they’ll go.
Per earlier thread:
In 2014, the editorial board of the Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire asked Cruz that specific question.
Cruz responded that he would not deport any illegal immigrants who had obeyed all other USA laws.
I have no doubt every aspect of needed reform will be included with those two good Senators working on it.
Am I imagining it or is their some wailing and gnashing of teeth going on by some folks on here that have been Cruz bashers for a while?
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