I don’t have a dog in this fight. My job is safe. I know many are threatened by H1B. If Cruz does not nip this in the bud he will lose. If he does not support H1B restrictions he better say so now.
Let me say it again: the proposal was a killer amendment offered to a 2013 (two years ago) comprehensive immigration bill. The comprehensive immigration bill has been dead since early in the PREVIOUS congress.
The author of this article is a great propagandist. Why?
Because the Cruz Amendment was TURNED DOWN. It is dead. It was offered as an amendment to the comprehensive immigration bill that everyone hated.
If it was EVERYTHING the liberals want, THEN WHY did they turn it down?
1. It absolutely prohibited any illegal alien EVER having a path to citizenship.
2. It made ANY immigrant acceptable ONLY by LEGAL immigration.
3. It required: business H-1Bs to put up a million bucks. It doubled the fees for all H-1Bs. It required other H-1Bs to ALREADY have a research position. For other H-1Bs, it required the Bureau of Labor to VERIFY that we have a labor shortage in that particular field.
Why, if this was such a “liberal” gold mine, did that previous Senate KILL IT? It’s obvious if you read the above restrictions it would have placed on the comprehensive immigration bill.
Finally, let me repeat: It is dead. Harry Reid and pals killed it.