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Re: "Outdated. From https://www.tedcruz.org/cruz-immigration-plan/:

Amend the H-1B visa program to fulfill its original purpose: Work with Congress to pass reform legislation for the H-1B visa program that will:

Create an advanced degree requirement: Only individuals with advanced degrees in their respective fields may be brought to the United States with an H-1B visa. And preference will be given to those with advanced degrees from American universities.
Create a "layoff cool-off" period for all H-1B visa applications: Companies must wait one or two years between laying off a worker and bringing in any H-1B foreign workers to ensure that the program is not used to displace American workers.
Establish accreditation or recognition requirements for overseas schools: The recent lack of federal oversight of the H-1B visa program has fueled a cottage industry of diploma mills. Foreign academic institutions must meet minimum accreditation standards at least as stringent as those imposed on American universities in order to qualify for the advanced-degree requirement.
Require sworn affidavits describing domestic hiring efforts: Companies will provide sworn statements and documentation that detail their efforts to hire Americans before requesting foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Individuals who make false statements in these affidavits will be subject to perjury charges.
Suspend companies from H-1B visa eligibility for failure to help foreign workers obtain green cards: Many companies misuse the H-1B visa program to train foreign workers that they intend to send back overseas to compete with America. The law must impose additional requirements on employers to pursue Legal Permanent Resident status on behalf of their H-1B visa-based foreign workers, or risk loss of access to the program.

"Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions Roll Out Antidote To Broken H-1B Program: American Jobs First Act" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3371276/posts

"Ted Cruz Explains why His Position on H-1B Visas Has Changed" - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3376485/posts

Cruz "changed" his position once it became obvious that Trump was a major hit with voters with his [Trump's] immigration paper.

If Cruz only recently suddenly found out that employers were replacing Americans with guest workers and forcing employee to train their replacement as a condition for severence, Cruz is either prevaricating or hasn’t been paying much attention to the issue, that includes Session's excellent papers on the issue.

Employers have been doing this since the 1990's.

If you read further more on Crux’s immigration policy page you will find two telling statements:

01. Suspend the issuance of all H-1B visas for 180 days to complete a comprehensive investigation and audit of pervasive allegations of abuse of the program: Initiate an immediate 180-day investigation and audit of the H-1B visa program and enact fundamental reforms of this program to ensure that it protects American workers. In recent months, more and more reports have become public of companies replacing American workers with cheaper foreign workers, contrary to the stated intent of the H-1B visa program. This will stop, and the H1-B program will be suspended until we can be certain that the program is no longer being abused.

As conserving freedom has posted out the H-1B visa is not being 'abused' it is functioning as designed – to replace American with CHEAP foreigners.

In other words hold a dog and pony show during which issuance of visas is suspended. This is meaningless because as I'm certain Cruz knowsH-1B all visas allotted for a given year are issued in a matter of days!

02. Halt any increases in legal immigration so long as American unemployment remains unacceptably high. The purpose of legal immigration should be to grow the economy, not to displace American workers. Under no circumstances should legal immigration levels be adjusted upwards so long as work-force participation rates remain below historical averages.

Unacceptably high is NOT defined. Obviously what is occurring currently is not unacceptably HIGH because Cruz does not state lower but 'NOT INCREASE’ In plainer words Cruz is perfectly comfortable with the 'urrent level of US worker replacement by H-1B's.

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Cruz "changed" his position once it became obvious that Trump was a major hit with voters with his [Trump's] immigration paper.

Yes, Cruz had to feel the heat before seeing the light. Trump has changed position on a great many things since the 2012 election cycle - when he called Romney's policy of self-deportation for illegals "maniacal."

two telling statements

Those are the weakest elements in a Cruz policy with several stronger protections (which I cited).