Has Cruz explained his position on H1B visas? I haven’t really dug into his position but know there are some concerns.
H1B-Visas will increase no matter who is President....the US is not going to be isolated from the Global Agenda to move and facilitate the ‘Global Workforce’. Large Corporations will make certain to fight for these every inch of the way... We may slow it down but it’s going to happen.
Cruz wants to increase ‘high-skilled’ H1B visas in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields where there appears to be a shortage of workers in our educational system...(estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018)..... It will make ‘block grants’ available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals.
Cruz and Trump both want to keep people here to open businesses etc. rather than in their own home country.
http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=137
Cruz is from Texas. We have had negative unemployment in the IT industry for a few years.
American college graduates don’t know squat about developing and maintaining software. They know only theory and they have a gimme-dat attitude. They sit around updating their FB status and sending out Tweets instead of working.
In today’s fast paced world of IT, we need developers who know what they are doing, can deliver when asked, and who WANT to work. In my experience, Texas companies are resorting to HB1 visa applicants to get the jobs done on time and under budget.
Proven experience (regardless of citizenship) trumps inexperienced, snot-nosed, gimme-dat brat all day long. If we want to reduce the number of foreign workers taking American jobs, we need to produce American graduates with a work ethic and establish interships that provide real-world experience. JMHO.
I imagine that has had an impact on his position, but I couldn’t say for sure.
To my knowledge he is a proponent for, and has supported legislation to increase the # of H1B visas by a large (hundreds) %. Perhaps someone else can provide the accurate info.