On green cards:Sen. Cruz’s amendment would:
Immediately increase the H-1B cap by 500 percent from 65,000 to 325,000.
- To truly fix our broken immigration system and take into account our nation’s economic needs, we must put more emphasis on increasing employment-based immigration. There is a current shortage of qualified high-skilled workers in the U.S., with an estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018.
- Additionally, more H-1B workers mean more jobs for American workers – according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute, for every additional 100 H-1B workers, 183 jobs are created for U.S. citizens.
Cruz 1324: Green Card (LPR) reform to modernize, streamline and expand legal immigration
This amendment would streamline and simplify our legal immigration system by consolidating segmented visas, creating real and transparent caps, eliminating the diversity visa lottery, and treating all immigrants equally by eliminating the per-country caps.
Provisions of his amendment include:Doubling the overall worldwide green card caps from 675,000 visas per year to 1.35 million per year (not including refugees and asylees):
To truly fix our broken immigration system
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Sen Ted Cruz said that ???
The “immigration” system is broken ???
hes an illegal alien enabler ???
Senator is against any form of immigration reform while the democrats hold the Senate.
All of what you post has nothing to do with amnesty for illegall aliens.
You left out that Cruz wants current illegals to be able to stay.
That sucks. I had hope for Cruz.