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Cruz wants (at last count, in 2013, when he was supporting the Gang of 8 bill) 500,000 ADDITIONAL H1-B visas-—these are the STEM jobs, the “good jobs”, business professionals, computers, engineering. But the kicker is that with TPA, which Cruz voted for, signatories of our trade agreements’s WORKERS get unfettered, UNCAPPED access to the U.S. and ALL of its jobs. TPP will bring in enough Indians to take every STEM and “good” job left in the USA. While crony corporations are figuring out how to export the jobs to Bangalore and other places overseas.

Cruz wants (at last count, in 2013

Here's what Cruz wants today. From https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan/:

Amend the H-1B visa program to fulfill its original purpose: Work with Congress to pass reform legislation for the H-1B visa program that will:

Create an advanced degree requirement: Only individuals with advanced degrees in their respective fields may be brought to the United States with an H-1B visa. And preference will be given to those with advanced degrees from American universities.
Create a "layoff cool-off" period for all H-1B visa applications: Companies must wait one or two years between laying off a worker and bringing in any H-1B foreign workers to ensure that the program is not used to displace American workers.
Establish accreditation or recognition requirements for overseas schools: The recent lack of federal oversight of the H-1B visa program has fueled a cottage industry of diploma mills. Foreign academic institutions must meet minimum accreditation standards at least as stringent as those imposed on American universities in order to qualify for the advanced-degree requirement.
Require sworn affidavits describing domestic hiring efforts: Companies will provide sworn statements and documentation that detail their efforts to hire Americans before requesting foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Individuals who make false statements in these affidavits will be subject to perjury charges.
Suspend companies from H-1B visa eligibility for failure to help foreign workers obtain green cards: Many companies misuse the H-1B visa program to train foreign workers that they intend to send back overseas to compete with America. The law must impose additional requirements on employers to pursue Legal Permanent Resident status on behalf of their H-1B visa-based foreign workers, or risk loss of access to the program.

"Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371276/posts

"Ted Cruz Explains why His Position on H-1B Visas Has Changed" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3376485/posts

“Cruz wants (at last count, in 2013, when he was supporting the Gang of 8 bill)”

I stopped reading there because that is a blatant lie.

I remember clearly when Rubio betrayed his tea party supporters, who got him elected, when he joined the Gang of 8. A lot of us around here burned up the phone lines in Washington to stop amnesty.

We also learned about the amendment Cruz put forward and were alarmed at some of the reports he would support the bill. As a supporter of Cruz before he beat GOPe candidate Dewhurst, I looked into this. We were relieved to discover Cruz had not sold us out like Rubio. The bill is something he did NOT want, and always said immigration reform needed to start with enforcement. His amendment was a brilliant play that took political pressure of the Republicans in the Senate who were getting bad press at the time. Schumer had already said he would kill the bill if citizenship was removed. This amendment did make the bill a little more palatable to Republicans if it had passed, but even better it killed the bill.

Republicans, conservatives, and the nation owes gratitude to Ted Cruz for throwing up a road block to amnesty in 2013.