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For past 2 or 3 years Cruz has wanted to Quintuple the number of H-1B Visas....How come no Cruz supporters seem concerned about that?

Here's why. From https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan/:

Amend the H-1B visa program to fulfill its original purpose: Work with Congress to pass reform legislation for the H-1B visa program that will:

Create an advanced degree requirement: Only individuals with advanced degrees in their respective fields may be brought to the United States with an H-1B visa. And preference will be given to those with advanced degrees from American universities.
Create a "layoff cool-off" period for all H-1B visa applications: Companies must wait one or two years between laying off a worker and bringing in any H-1B foreign workers to ensure that the program is not used to displace American workers.
Establish accreditation or recognition requirements for overseas schools: The recent lack of federal oversight of the H-1B visa program has fueled a cottage industry of diploma mills. Foreign academic institutions must meet minimum accreditation standards at least as stringent as those imposed on American universities in order to qualify for the advanced-degree requirement.
Require sworn affidavits describing domestic hiring efforts: Companies will provide sworn statements and documentation that detail their efforts to hire Americans before requesting foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Individuals who make false statements in these affidavits will be subject to perjury charges.
Suspend companies from H-1B visa eligibility for failure to help foreign workers obtain green cards: Many companies misuse the H-1B visa program to train foreign workers that they intend to send back overseas to compete with America. The law must impose additional requirements on employers to pursue Legal Permanent Resident status on behalf of their H-1B visa-based foreign workers, or risk loss of access to the program.

"Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371276/posts

"Ted Cruz Explains why His Position on H-1B Visas Has Changed" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3376485/posts

Thanks for posting...If his stance had changed 2 years ago or even early on in the campaign, I might have had faith in these changes. However, I don’t now...to clarify:

He has very recently changed his position during the campaign, but he did not move on it for over 2 years...and I contacted his office. Others did too. BTW, the H-1B Visa program is only the tip of the iceberg...Seriously, the problem starts in colleges with the issuing of unlimited foreign student visas that enable business to hire foreign foreign grads at a savings over US citizens right after college—no H-1B visa required (he did not address that either). The entire program is corrupt.

Also, I am not sure I trust this change given his funding sources and his very recent pro-Obama trade votes which will likely override any comments he has made during a campaign. The trade votes are packed with immigration visa expansion...

Sessions went with Trump too. I am still a Trump first choice voter.

Cruz's response is so complex that it would either never be enacted; or, which is more likely, K Street would insert so many loopholes that it would amount to no change at all or even an easing of H1B restrictions.

After all, K Street wrote the existing law so that if the employer is found to have falsified the H1B application, the visa cannot be revoked if the H1B visa holder is paid a minimum of $65K.

The much simpler solution is to wipe the slate clean and start over with a completely new immigration act.

Actually, I wouldn't mind simply going back to the 1929 Act.