Sen Cruz needs to back away from this Chamber of Commerce open-borders dream.
From what I gather the Cruzers are gloBULLists, they don’t really care-about Americans.
for many months, Cruz seemed as if he could do no wrong...
but recently on the secret Obama trade bill and now immigration......??????????????????????????????????????
looks like maybe Cruz is losing it?
People need to stop putting faith in politicians to the point where they start demanding bans for criticizing the flavor of the month.
H-1B Visa holders should be able to run for the Senate and Congress. Give them a taste of their own medicine.
That’s not exactly the whole story though is it you lying scumbag.
Politics is like war. The first casualty of war is truth. We don’t know what to believe so I believe nothing unless I hear the candidate say it himself. Maybe he did say this. Does that mean we should run off and support somebody who wants to bring in millions of Mexicans? Or, should we support a crony capitalist like Clinton? It’s unlikely we’ll get the candidate we want. Then it’s up to us to elect other candidates for the Senate and the House that will stymy any anti-American populism our actual candidate does support. Politics is a dirty business. I’d sooner see sausages made.
Won’t work but keep trying.
Bring more of your toady creeps to the bash-Cruz party so they can be catalogued and flagged for the future.
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Since Mar 26, 2015
*sniff*sniff*
One of the things I do not agree with Ted Cruz about.
that’s just what we need. jobs foreigners taking our jobs
this is the exact thing bjclinton did that hosed the tech sector in 2000.
TCruz is BJClinton v2.0
H1B Ping
Being best on amnesty doesn’t make it OK to suck on H-1Bs.
Americans should get a first shot at skilled jobs.
This is insanity and Ted Cruz is insane. What this really means is 325,000 new immigrants and their families. The only reason someone from India agrees to seven years of peonage and servitude on an H1-B visa is to be sponsored for permanent residency (green card) by his employers. All H1-B people plan on staying in America. Legally immigrating here.
Not to mention that Americans working in computers get their wages driven down by allowing in 325,000 H1-B holders each year
Ted Cruz or any other Republican should not be increasing the number of foreign worker visas by 400%.
Wow, You joined FR the day Ted Cruz announced his candidacy. Less than a day and your already disenchanted. Hum.
It will take a generation or so to produce highly-skilled graduates of our own to participate in our economic recovery. Meanwhile, we have to borrow some of those from other countries.
When a politician speaks up for securing the border, and trying to stop illegal immigration, they usually try to take the sting out of it by pointing out that they favor expanding *legal* immigration. The idea being that they aren’t anti-immigrant, just anti-illegal-immigrant.
So I have tended to view Cruz’s call for expanding H1B in that light.
So, if we’re talking about a 10% increase, thats understandable though wrong-headed. If we’re talking about increasing by several hundred percent, thats a whole ‘nother thing.
Because I like Cruz I’ve tended to overlook the H1B issue, although in actual fact when we are already at more than a million legal immigrants per year, I’m not sure why we need to be increasing that number, particularly when the work force is shrinking. Because I am currently annoyed with all Washington politicians over the TPP business and its immigration clauses, I am especially sensitive to this.
We are already bringing in a million legal immigrants per year. If that isn’t sufficient, how many is enough? How do our politicians arrive at that number? How do they justify it with so many people out of work?
Also reported here.
Cruz, who announced his presidential bid this morning, once proposed an immediate increase in the base H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill.
Cruz’s amendment was defeated by the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, which approved an 180,000 H-1B cap increase in the comprehensive immigration bill. The House never acted on this legislation.
Correct me if it’s not accurate.