What Cruz is proposing is to strengthen punishments against companies who “abuse” the H-1B visa program.
He didn’t say a damn thing about walking back his own proposed increases to the H-1B visa program. He completely avoided the question.
Let me know when we have a H-1B visa program for US Senators and he can tout his 500% increase for them.
I guess you missed the interview with Bret Bair and others today when Cruz said we need to suspend legal immigration until the illegal immigration situation is under control. That includes any visa program.
You still don’t get it do you. He was working with other Senators, I think Sessions, Lee & Grassley to defeat the Gang of Eight who had joined up with the dems to pass their immigration reform.
A long list of amendments were offered to them by these 4 Senators that included protections for American workers and securing our borders and other reforms to reign in illegal immigration. You can see the list of amendments here:
http://genius.com/Senator-ted-cruz-open-letter-on-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill-annotated
The senators were essentially saying “Here, you said we have a shortage of workers and jobs that cannot be filled by Americans. So let’s increase the number of work VISAS. Let’s give you what you say you want. However, we also want an increase in wages for these foreign workers and they cannot be paid less than an American worker would be paid for the same job. The company must prove that they cannot fill the jobs with American workers.” In other words, they called them on their own BS. The need for foreign workers wasn’t the issue. Bringing more dem voting foreigners into the country was the issue and that was clear by the actions of the Senate.
If the companies have to pay the same wage as they would to an American employee, prove that the job cannot be filled by an American and pay the fee for the visa why would they want to import a foreign worker? Get it?
But then again, I think the point of this outrageous propaganda is not to get at the truth but to smear Ted Cruz.
Most of this type of garbage has already been debunked again and again here on FR. I guess the anti-Cruz crowd is going to have to go back to the simple “He can’t win” argument and convince us how a candidate that attracts democrat votes is a conservative.
Both parties have been bought off.