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Regardless of the reasons and detail that Cruz is tied to this, he needs to come clean on his view of H1B. I’d be happiest if he said this was not his position, that it evolved, etc., that’d be fine. Especially if he said that so long as there is an American looking for a job, no employer should be allowed to import foreign workers. For most of IT, there is truly no shortage of qualified or easily trained workers. They just come at foreign worker rates.

Oops. Correcting above. US workers don’t come with foreign worker discount.

Regardless of the reasons and detail that Cruz is tied to this, he needs to come clean on his view of H1B. I’d be happiest if he said this was not his position, that it evolved, etc., that’d be fine. Especially if he said that so long as there is an American looking for a job, no employer should be allowed to import foreign workers.

That last qualifier is just like a little kid wanting a pony, in nearly every way.

WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE LINK to see Cruz "come clean." It makes sense. Another approach, of course, is to assume that all business owners are dirty no-good bastards who cannot be trusted because they'll throw America to the ash heap in search of cheap labor. THAT sounds like a leftist to me, but it is the knee-jerk attitude of many Republicans who resent every immigrant who has a job in the U.S.

I’d be happiest if he said this was not his position, that it evolved, etc., that’d be fine...

I'd be happiest (my pony) if he said, "Minimum wage laws and cumbersome government regulation make it a losing proposition for American companies to hire teenagers and low-skilled people, a vast resource of American workers, so those jobs primarily go to illegal immigrants in whose nations our minimum wage is a substantial income. Government welfare like food stamps, subsidized housing, free education and medical care, given to illegal immigrants make the problem worse. Get rid of minimum wage laws, and watch a large percentage of the illegal immigration problem melt away."

That's what I'd like for Ted Cruz to say!

Regardless of the reasons and detail that Cruz is tied to this, he needs to come clean on his view of H1B. I’d be happiest if he said this was not his position, that it evolved, etc., that’d be fine. Especially if he said that so long as there is an American looking for a job, no employer should be allowed to import foreign workers. For most of IT, there is truly no shortage of qualified or easily trained workers. They just come at foreign worker rates.

You summed it up beautifully!