Yes he said it in a speech recently May 30 hosted by the Kuhner Report.
What you and others, if you’re not paid trolls, fail to understand is that Ted Cruz wants the H1B caps expanded and implemented ONLY WHERE THERE IS DEMONSTRATED NEED.
In the case of Disney, this is a clear abuse of the H1B program BUT .... it does not prohibit Disney from laying off their IT groups and contracting with a 3rd party.
Disney Park ticket prices are way too high and their sales volume is plummeting. Therefore, like any business they need to cut costs and reduce overhead. But they chose to utilize the H1B program in violation of its authorized purpose.
But what Disney and others doing similar have done is not the fault of Ted Cruz. It is the fault of Obama’s lack of enforcement and lack of upholding the rule of law.
Ted Cruz on the other hand will uphold the rule of law and crack down on abuses. He is for creating good jobs in America. He is not in favor of replacing American workers with cheap labor.
BUT ... it is a fact that not enough STEM graduates and specialists are produced by American colleges and universities. Ted Cruz looks at that correctly as a weakness in America’s competitiveness.
Let’s take an example and let’s see if you can go the distance and have the humility to say you have learned something new and now understand better.
The man in the profile page above is Chinese and has resided in America for decades. He is one of the most brilliant academics alive today. He is now a fully tenured professor and has enjoyed growing his family as Americans.
To recruit such people, the H1B program was born.
We are not going to get rid of the H1B program. We are going to scoop up the finest academics, scientists and mathematicians the world over. America is going to have a lock on talent and THAT IS WHAT TED CRUZ WANTS TO ENSURE.
The IT workers at Disney are not in the same league. They are a cut below. If they were truly smart, they would already be reinventing themselves for their next opportunity.
But the fact is that there is a faction of American workers that think they should be ‘guaranteed’ employment and they are no different in their attitudes than socialists who think American workers should be guaranteed a ‘living wage’. They are of the same attitude, the same ilk.
What you also fail to understand is that this story was released by the NY Times in October 2014. There is only one reason they are rehashing it now; to falsely blame and associate candidates like Ted Cruz with H1B abuses like Disney. They will never blame Obama who is the real culprit. They will continue to troll and attack conservative websites to create confusion, doubt and distrust. And this thread is a prime example.