Cruz quintrupled the number of HB1 Visa holders in his amendment for the GANG OF EIGHT bill. He did specify these holders as “higher skilled foreign workers”. The Gang of 8 recommended 65,000. Cruz offered 325,000.
After pooh hit the fan, he came up with a sure pacifier. He repeated it tonight. He came up with a 180 day moratorium.
Comforting, huh?
This is why American parents were furious. They just paid their higher skilled kids through university, and they are working at Ruth Crist Steak House serving tea, while Utterly Ted recommended his stratospheric increase in foreign workers. Yikes.
Even worse, it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy; less American children WILL invest in higher education/job training (because they won’t be offered the jobs anyway), so at some point down the road (when today’s thirty year-olds are dead) these foreigners will be necessary.
I remember Bill Gates whining that American kids didn’t go into computers anymore - no doubt because HE WOULDN’’T HIRE THEM ANYWAY.