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And Ted Cruz offered an amendment that would increase H1B visas by 500%

Now, I consider immigration to be one of my top-five issues. At this point, given their respective comments, NONE of the three likely top-tier GOP candidates (Cruz, Walker or Bush) are telling me what I want to hear on that.

So the solution, for myself and anyone (including you, I'd suppose) else who sees immigration as a critical issue for the future of the US, is just to say they're ALL RINOS who are in the back pocket of the Chamber of Commerce and sit 2016 out.

Right?

Right?

Sorry, that kind of attitude doesn't fly with me. Both Cruz and Walker are acceptable, IMHO. Not perfect, definitely flawed in their own ways, maybe not having made the best decisions in the past in terms of what they've said, or supported or proposed.

But they're both better than Bush, and definitely magnitudes better than whoever the Dems are going to put up next year.

At this point, given their respective comments, NONE of the three likely top-tier GOP candidates (Cruz, Walker or Bush) are telling me what I want to hear on that.

You know what I want to hear on immigration? I want a call for the end of minimum wage and onerous regulation that makes employing teens too risky and expensive.

I want a call for the end of government obligation to provide education for illegal immigrant kids. (Cruz just did that, by the way).

I want a call for the end of government charity subsidies in welfare and family support that illegal immigrants take as entitlements. No more food stamps, rent assistance, education, school lunches, AFWDC, for illegals. Deprive them of jobs (give them to teen agers at a real market value) and deprive them of government-provided food and shelter. Desperate poverty is best attended by true volunteer charities in a Christian spirit, a whole different deal than amoral Government entitlement programs.

THAT's what I want to hear on immigration, and judging Cruz's general philosophy of governance, I think I'd hear close to it from him. It would go a very, very long way to solving the illegal immigration problem.