Yes, a lot of people on FR seem to be blind to Cruz. He is George Bush III as far as I’m concerned. He worked in the Bush WH, his wife is a partner at Goldman Sachs. He’s for 500% increase in H1-B.
Trump is much more consistent in speaking up for the American worker. Cruz is on the cheap labor express. But many aren’t willing to realize it yet. He’s no different than Rubio and Huckster. Both use religious language to mask the fact that they only care about themselves and their paymasters.
‘When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country.”
“I want talented people to come into this country—to work hard and to become citizens. Silicon Valley needs engineers, etc.”
The above quotes are from......TRUMP! (Twitter, Aug. 2015).
Cruz has said the same thing. Cruz also has in there that the corporations have to prove that they can’t find Americans with the skills they require. Although I imagine there will be lots of ways to get around that - much like “competitive bids” but then you get to the part about the left-handed albino guy.
Cruz bases it on the idea that why educate these people and then ship them back off overseas in order to compete against us, where keeping them here will help America? With “protections” that they aren’t competing against our workers.
OTOH - I’ve seen other papers that say Cruz is wrong, and there is NOT a shortage of skilled American STEM workers.
Regardless - this one issue, or one of several issues that I may not 100% agree with Cruz on, I’ve sent him a donation from time to time.