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.
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Cruz is so full of shit on H1b’s that he should keep his mouth shut. If he doesn’t understand the abuses of the program, he doesn’t understand the program. He is advocating on behalf of big business. H1b’s lower the cost of employment and put Americans out of work. we should be putting Americans first, especially those with skilled labor, not fat cat big businesses who hate paying what people are worth.
He probably doesn’t know about Harley either. Cruz is a Sheckel shilling ass clown that road into the party backwards with a talking points list of every conservative issue. Don’t ask him details because he’s been handed his ideas by some crony capitalist who wants to bilk the American people for every dollar they can, ethics aside. This is typical of Texas politicians and why the state of Texas is up to its ten gallon hat in shady deals, cheap labor, and retard voters who look the other way and pull their favorite teams lever come voting time. I love Texas but I will never vote for its politicians on a national stage.
I KNOW Cruz is smart enough to know this is bad for American workers...the H-1B being just a vehicle to keep tech pay low.
Anyone who has actually seen the result, or studied up on it would agree.
So that leads me to believe Cruz has a very rich and powerful DONOR who wants an expansion of H-1B.
I guarantee that once the PACs and issue groups start announcing, we'll see some Silicon Valley connection to Cruz.
This, and TPA/TPP, keep me from being a Cruz supporter and has me convinced he intends to work for somebody's interests that are not mine.
He needs to seriously back off on this issue. I’ve written his campaign, sending him links to a couple FR threads that show how seriously pissed off FReepers are about his stand on this.
I think Trump has done good in the general scheme of things as putting this issue up front and center. That does not mean I will vote for Trump.
There is one Representative or Senator who is going to bring up a bill to outlaw “Sanctuary Cities”, we would not see this done if it were not for this current ruckus though, certainly such a bill would be vetoed, at least, we can get a list of people who support Sanctuary Cities and when something goes awry, they have blood on their hands.
Yeah, I saw it.
To borrow from your post #52, I'm simply refraining from assuming the worst about Cruz, which is that he's lying through his teeth.
I've seen nothing to contradict Cruz's character and Christianity. He'll have some specifics.
I'm sticking with him as our best, most solidly conservative candidate. If we screw this up, we deserve to lose.
That's what the O-1, O-2 visa is for.
The purpose of the H-1B visa is to keep pay rates low in the Tech sector.
Hard to not agree with that. But how does that square with the 'free traders' when they consider jobs just another commodity to be exported.
There aren’t enough American kids who are willing to do the work necessary to gain such an education. The norm has shifted a good bit from what it was when I came up. Today, a kid who works hard, makes good grades, goes to a good School with a real major is the exception.
The majority is now lazy and entitled. Seriously. That’s why we’re short of qualified workers. Women’s studies, gender studies, etc we have plenty.
My issues with letting more people in is that those we’re currently letting in are net tax consumers by a friggin long shot, we don’t know who or where they are, they’re taking jobs that we DO have people for (unskilled), they get benefits (they should not- if you come here you must contribute not suck resources), and they’ll try to vote.
I’m ok letting people in who don’t get benefits, don’t vote, don’t take jobs Americans can do,
Can H1-B help combat that? I don’t know. But I do know we have to secure the border and control what comes in. Hopefully what come in _helps_ us.
I'm not buying it.
>>>> We need to do a better job educating our children. Removing the federal government from our schools is a good start. <<<<
Amen.
A good many of the students our colleges are graduating these days are completely useless despite their “education”.
My uncle teaches business ethics at UofM and says he only sees a couple of students per year that he would ever consider hiring. He says that most of the students who pass through his classes don’t really know anything about their chosen course of study and half of those who do plagiarized or stole someone else’s work.
He says that social engineering takes up so much of their time that they have to struggle to learn anything even if they want to.
The reasons we are bringing in labor more complex than that and many of those reasons are indefensible.
““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”
That is a lie. We are NOT sending them back to their countries. They come here on student visas and then NEVER go back. They simply stay here illegally and nothing is ever done about it.
Cruz’s father came here legally on a student visa. Cruz’s mother was a U.S. Citizen.
Our ‘burbs, suburbs, certainly have cracked down on illegals, for some reason, a number of cities seem to go with it. Those cities are not in every state and it looks like the list is often in a state of flux.
Those sank cities are a bad idea and from what I gather, the idea started in the 1970s.
That’s not what I said, so no wonder you’re not buying it...it’s not what I said.
I said the norm has moved.
I see exactly the same thing. Even mathematics majors are generally weak.
After 30+ years of watching this country completely fall apart because of corrupt politicians, one would think that it would become obvious to everyone that both parties are playing for the same team. Every one liner, campaign pledge, tough talk, personal promise are simply theater. None of it is real. The only way to fix this is hire leaders that are NOT career politicians. The founders intended it that way.
I'm assuming nothing (and therefore withholding active support) until I see those specifics.
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