I will have to disagree. Foreign students come here and pay out the nose for tuition. Further they support themselves with dollars from their home country. They are here as consumers of education. All the foreigners I knew in college expected the same compensation levels as Americans (higher if you factor in the fact that a company must sponsor them) so they may have “taken jobs” by being more competent but they were not the same as the H1-B’s who flood the tech market with cheaper labor.
Cruz has made the exact same argument as Trump when it comes to H-1Bs, that he wants educated foreign college students to stay and work here. I'm not crazy about promoting H-1Bs, but I think Santorum is the only guy opposing them and he's not viable until he gets in the main debates. I'm not a single-issue voter, so I wouldn't reject Trump or Cruz solely on their support for letting foreign college graduates immigrate here. It's at least better than letting unlimited, uneducated South Americans sneak over the border and sign up for food stamps and Obamacare.
He also discussed H-1B visas arguing that in the status quo, “every year US colleges and universities educate tens of thousands of foreign students who are getting masters and PhDs in engineering and math and computer science, and we’re sending them back to their countries. And as a result, they’re going back to their countries, they’re starting businesses there. They’re creating jobs there, and their companies are competing with us and taking jobs away from us. I don’t think that makes any sense.