“What is wrong with him on immigration?”
I’m not sure Walker’s much better, but to answer your question - it would be difficult for him to win if he totally alienates Hispanics - and they do want to see round ups, even legal Hispanics. I work with one and he freaked out at the thought that he might have to produce his papers while cutting his front lawn - and the guy owns more guns than most gun shops. So you have to tread carefully there.
Regarding H1B’s...not really sure there - a good question for his campaign. I do know that he made some attempts to show just how insane Rubio’s Senate bill was by trying to amend it (in one case someone, I don’t think Cruz, proposed that the limit on DUIs for deportation be dropped from 3 to 2, it was rejected...go figure).
As to Illegals here - it’s not easy. Get rid of them and it will be years before another house gets built in Texas. I know, I hired the contractors for mine. They are like third stage cancer, you just can’t rip them out cleanly without huge disruption (and they did a damn good job, by the way).
But you probably think like me: What kind of country will our kids, grandchildren, and great grandchildren have to live in if our demographics keep moving the way they are. Certainly not the country we grew up in, probably something in between Argentina (at best) and Mexico (at worst). To be honest, I don’t know if Cruz has thought that through, yet. But he is smart and he’s not controlled by anyone, so he may figure it out and act accordingly...which is a lot more than can be said regarding just about anyone else.
I'm not looking for 'purity'. That's a meme started by the GOP-E to hide that Romney was a liberal, not 'imperfect'.
/johnny
I think that this is the last time that our political candidates will be able to “offend” the Hispanic voter. There are few enough of them eligible to vote who do so. The ones who do, in my long and wide experience with Mexican Americans who do vote leads me to believe that they just need a little nudge to remind them that too many anybodies too fast into our country diminishes opportunity for their kids and grandkids just like everyone else.
Further, the recent class of illegal entrants from everywhere, and especially Mexico, are NOT America lovers as were prior immigrants. They are America haters like Obama.
Cruz may be a Cuban chauvinist who just does not understand the Mexican mind. Mexicans do not think like Cubans and usually do not even like Cubans or Puerto Ricans or South Americans. He will get a very small part of the Mexican vote no matter how lightly he treds with them.
The Mexican soul is very Mexican proud. For the most part, that is a good thing, until you get to the current crop of younger Mexicans on both sides of the border who have been propagandized into hating America and Americans and are on a mission to take what they have been misled to believe America stole from them in the Mexican American war. They do not realize that America agreed to and did pay Mexico fifty million dollars in gold for almost all of the American southwest.
We help them stay to our own destruction. This is our last election to stave them off.