Agreed. Let's see what he can do!
I’m betting Trump will rile up the electorate, spice up the conversation, and then withdraw and support Cruz.
I so despise Cruz's H1-B position that, unless he changes it, I can actually see myself not voting for anyone for President if he gets the nomination. I may have to hold my nose and vote because I'm pro-life, but I bet he and his team are counting on that.
I hope everyone who has no problem raising legal immigration through the roof gets to personally know the horrors of long-term unemployment, where you can't scare up a job interview even when your life literally depends on it.
You have to understand what (I believe) Cruz is saying. You actually shut the door on millions of illegals, and you return to a policy of only legal immigration and only letting in those who can contribute to our society.
I realize nurses and engineers fear this because places like India are producing a lot of engineers. Of course you don’t want to flood the job market with lower paid foreigners, but it only makes sense to say that once you stop illegals the country can return to a healthier legal immigration system.
I can certainly empathize. I was laid off in 2008 from a failing company. (Inadequate company strategy & resources, the overall economy, and the implosion of the industry I was in were all factors in the company’s demise.) I never was able to land a salaried job: Employers are sometimes as averse to hiring an overqualified person as underqualified, perhaps because they know the former will move on if at all possible. Luckily I’d saved / prepared and was able to restart an old business of my own that I’d mostly hibernated - but the 1st 2 years as I lost money at it were really rough.
That said, I am not anti-legal-immigrant, at levels that don’t seriously affect wage competition in the US. My wife is from a 3rd world country, and is a huge plus for the US of A (and me!!!) Some of the people at other companies I now work with are incredibly talented immigrants: Again, they are a big boon to both their employers and to the US.
What doesn’t make sense is importation of big numbers of people when so many citizens have been pushed completely out of the workforce.