Posted on 07/08/2015 6:44:04 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared “I am proud to defend Donald Trump” and promoted his “legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas if there are people who are educated and talented and creating jobs” on Tuesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show. [...]
The discussion turned to legal immigration, Cruz said, “we should improve and streamline legal immigration.” He also discussed H-1B visas arguing that in the status quo, “every year US colleges and universities educate tens of thousands of foreign students who are getting masters and PhDs in engineering and math and computer science, and we’re sending them back to their countries. And as a result, they’re going back to their countries, they’re starting businesses there. They’re creating jobs there, and their companies are competing with us and taking jobs away from us. I don’t think that makes any sense. So, I’ve introduced legislation to increase the number of H-1B visas, if there are people who are educated and talented and creating jobs, the data shows for every H-1B visa holder that comes in, he or she creates 1.7 jobs for Americans here. I want job creations, I want innovators, I want new opportunities for America.” Cruz was asked about Disney’s use of H-1B visas to replace US workers who were forced to train their replacements, he stated that he didn’t know the facts of the Disney case, so he couldn’t comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It doesn't make sense.
So, instead of encouraging foreigners to stay couldn't we get the same result educating more American citizens in those same disciplines? Instead of inviting more foreign students in (because they're more profitable for the universities)?
To believe this is not a viable alternative is to imply that there is something genetically wrong with Americans.
Actually Cruz has made it clear that his support for increasing H-1B visas would be tied to real border control and workplace enforcement of existing law. He speaks of making sure companies are actually hiring qualified Americans first before they would be able to bring in new H-1B visa workers.
Sadly many “conservatives” see no problem with lying to harm Cruz.
Ted, it’s like this.
American government is supposed to work for Americans.
Right now, American government is working as hard as it can against Americans, and it is actually killing Americans as a result.
The political winds are most certainly not blowing in the direction of hey we want more foreigners in this country.
Wake up, or you aren’t going to win. Simple as that.
Standard politico pap. It's unacceptable that Cruz does not know the facts of the case. I'm an average workaday schlub and I know at least the basic facts. You can't be a presidential candidate and not know basic things like this.
That said, I still believe Cruz is the best out there, and he is certainly the ONLY Conservative in the race. This isn't a deal breaker, but he does need to hear quite vocally from his supporters, such as myself, on this issue.
Find it yourself or you won’t learn anything. (not that I really think you intend to anyway)
But WHY must he propose to EXPAND the program? Its obviously being abused today.
Microsoft, Intel and Qualcomm have all had major layoffs this year.
They eliminated USA employees and rehired in India.
Increasing H1b just means the same people get dumped and since H1b makes 50% less, the USA makes much less in tax payments.
I sure wish I could spend 30 min with Ted Cruz to explain it to him.
I'd like to see that list - do you know where I can find it?
Find it yourself or you won’t learn anything. (not that I really think you intend to anyway)
So *you* get to make unsupported claims and *I* get to research them? Sorry, that's not how reasoned discussion works (not that I really think you want a reasoned discussion anyway).
I do need to speak with him about the H-1B visa’s
The brain-drain is long since complete.
India seems to be giving away college degrees with cereal box tops these days
I spent half my career fixing things ‘outsourced’ to cheap labor software contractors
We don’t need to increase the number of H-1B visas.
We need to do a better job educating our children. Removing the federal government from our schools is a good start.
I know way too many tech people that cannot find good jobs.
Expand H-1B Visas translation...,
Replace American Workers With Foreigners and Drive Down Wages
That’s a deal breaker Senator Cruz. Who the h@ll is advising you to take these Anti-American positions?
H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Pay Foreign Workers Extremely Low Wages: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3306445/posts?page=7#7
I don’t really care what lying scum like you think.
You're complaining about job security?
It's nice that he speaks of this generality - does he say he'll change the current law, which ptetends to already do this? "H-1B Is Designed to Allow Employers to Replace Americans with Cheap Foreign Workers" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3306445/posts?page=8#8: "You have to navigate through two levels of misdirection in the code to piece all this together. Congress went to a lot of effort to ensure employers can replace Americans and to hide that fact from the casual reader of the code."
It’s a response you’d expect from an Obama worshipper circa 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/us/cruz-tries-to-claim-the-middle-ground-on-immigration.html?_r=0
Here is a 2013 article on Cruz’s immigration stance. Though the NYT, it probably is fairly decent.
As said before, the only hard-core anti-immigration types are ones like Jeff Sessions from what I see.
Cruz comes from a state that has a lot of migrant labor, just the way it is, it seems he wanted to expand green cards and the quotas of immigration from Mexico.
At the least, something to read up on closer.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.