I emailed him, as a monthly supporter. I said that this concerned me and I’d heard that he supported a 500% increase in these H1B visas. I told him that I knew a lot of tech people, many of which lost retirement benefits, cannot get another job in the tech industry, etc. I’m not saying that he listened to my complaint, but I am very glad that he has addressed this right away. In every other way, he is the most conservative candidate out there, and I think the one who’d really keep his word the most.
Cruz is the most conservative candidate. Trump’s record the last 20 years minus immigration is really close to Gulliani. They don’t like to talk about that though.
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.
The gang of 8 turned his proposal down because it wouldn’t actually increase the number of H1b visas. It was simply too heavy on enforcement to be palatable to the gang of 8.
He even said he expected it to be turned down when he proposed it. Here is video of him proposing and explaining it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlGlNwsQb0
I did the very same thing. I told his campaign that if they wanted my money, they’d better clarify his position on the H-1(B) visa issue. Not that they paid any attention whatsoever to me, but I suspect the volume of inquiries prompted them/him to respond and clarify. Hopefully, this is the final hurdle on the way to ensuring the nomination of Ted Cruz.