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Cruz offered a compromise to the Gang of Eight. It had the effect of stopping the Gang of Eight bill. If you’ll recall, before Cruz threw a monkey wrench into the works, the Gang of Eight amnesty was moving quickly toward passage.

The compromise required border security, no amnesty or legal status for illegal immigrants, and the famous increases in H1-Bs. In exchange for the increase in H1-Bs by 260,000, the bill sought to raise the mandatory wage rate, so bringing in foreigners for fairly low-level work would no longer be profitable. Also in the compromise was a cut in legal unskilled immigration by 500,000. The net effect was to stop amnesty for illegals, and to reduce legal immigratikn.

This before trump grabbed on to the issue.

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The compromise required border security, no amnesty or legal status for illegal immigrants, and the famous increases in H1-Bs. In exchange for the increase in H1-Bs by 260,000, the bill sought to raise the mandatory wage rate, so bringing in foreigners for fairly low-level work would no longer be profitable. Also in the compromise was a cut in legal unskilled immigration by 500,000. The net effect was to stop amnesty for illegals, and to reduce legal immigration.

Yes, but enough about the facts. Cruz is the devil and needs to be thrashed. /s