Cruz also support increasing the H1B numbers?
Bm
"...The GOP presidential hopeful opposes citizenship for undocumented immigrants, but he stressed Wednesday the need to celebrate and encourage legal immigration. And he noted his support for dramatically increasing the available number of high-tech visas. His remarks drew an implicit contrast with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a likely rival for the GOP nomination, who recently took a protectionist stance on legal immigration levels.
Cruz declined to directly answer a question from TIME about whether he would support a path to legal status for undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S., indicating a legislative fix should first focus on shoring up border security.
The freshman Senator said he believed there was significant bipartisan agreement around securing the borders and streamlining the legal immigration system. He criticized Democrats for crippling the recent reform plan in Congress by insisting on the “poison pill” of citizenship.
“They are treating immigration as a political cudgel,” Cruz said, “where they want to use it to scare the Hispanic community. And their objective is to have the Hispanic community vote monolithically Democrat.”...........
I’m not totally against the concept of an H1B visa worker if there are strictly enforced rules that control them.
1) The employer must provide a job description that includes substantive qualifications and requirements for the position;
2) The employer must provide written proof of where they attempted to hire US workers, why those interviewed weren’t hired, and whether or not the position being contemplated is filled already; and
3) They have not coerced a current employee to take a buyout, fired him/her with cause, or to train an in-country H1B visa new hire for that position.
They don’t want to have the employee they are sending to the scrap heap to be able to claim unemployment because the company’s experienced rate for UIC affects their UIC premiums. They’d much rather coerce you in to resigning or trump up some excuse for with-cause termination.
Finally, for every company that has over the national average of H1B visa employees, they should be assessed a penalty tax or fine. You take away the greedy corporate motive and you stop this foolishness.