That’s why he’s for the totally Free movement of trade and labor.
What is your position on Right to Work and Labor’s opposition?
That may or may not be true (no links were provided to substantiate your claim). However, if so, is that a bad thing?
I've been DIRECTLY and NEGATIVELY impacted by the H1B's, and since 2000, by H1B imports from India (as my specialty is Oracle technology). I've worked as a "minority" U.S. citizen my entire career, ever since I left active duty USN in 1985. It's been me, and maybe 5 other Americans in a shop of a 100 IT professionals, and the rest were immigrants, most working on a VISA. I calculate my career income has been cut by 50%.
Yet, I'm for free labor and tariff free goods. I'm also for secure, and controlled borders. I'm for an immigration system that's fair, that doesn't for example, keep my Filipino out of the USA for 30 years, while any Hispanic nationality south of the US border effectively gets priority over him by the tens of millions via benign neglect.
I don't want to send the foreign nationals home by closing down all H1B's. That would damage the country. However, the system put in place for 30 years, originally by the late Senator Moynihan (D-NY), encourages indentured servitude. It effectively rewards "job shops" for bringing in cut-rate labor, paying an H1B typically half to one-third the market rate, while housing four, six, or eight to a "company apartment". These company's "own" this labor because the contract employee's VISA is tied to the company for six years (which is now many times, entirely foreign owned). American company's love the stability and relatively cheap rates, and Americans', particularly Americans over the age of 40, have a tough time competing.
America "doesn't graduate enough domestic STEM" graduates, goes the MEME, but why would an intelligent college student pay $150K for four years of education, only to enter a field with a captive, non-competitive labor market. Heck, only "progressives" spend that kind of time and money to achieve a minimum wage job with a "Feminist studies" degree.
American's CAN compete, of the deck of the ship isn't tilted down by the bow. Give the bright Indian kids the H1B, tack it to their backs, much like school choice, and let them compete on the open market. Let THEM pay their own way for education, healthcare, travel, and such, and PROVE to American employers their worth at market rates. They won't be any "better" they our own American kids, and you'll see STEM graduate rates at US Universities skyrocket (IF American's can access those institutions in spite of foreign and minority preferences - a whole nuther story).
The problem isn't free trade policy. The problem is BAD trade policy. The problem isn't free labor policy, it's BAD PROGRESSIVE labor policy. Illegal immigration is a RESULT of bad US policy, not due to bad or evil immigrants (a point of logic at which I depart from Trump). Radical Muslim's in the US are again, due to a radical policy favoring Muslims over immigrants who are Christians and of other faiths.
Fix the root cause problems. Behind every bad economic policy is usually a Democrat or RINO with his/her finger in the till, and that includes Donald Trump, by the way.
Cruz is one candidate who's "root cause" approach to problem solving appeals to me. While Immigration reform (i.e. ENFORCE THE FRIGGIN LAWS ALREADY, MAN!!) is important, downsizing the US government by eliminating whole departments is essential, and I don't think any other candidate other than Cruz will take that approach.
FReegards.