That last qualifier is just like a little kid wanting a pony, in nearly every way.
WATCH THE VIDEO AT THE LINK to see Cruz "come clean." It makes sense. Another approach, of course, is to assume that all business owners are dirty no-good bastards who cannot be trusted because they'll throw America to the ash heap in search of cheap labor. THAT sounds like a leftist to me, but it is the knee-jerk attitude of many Republicans who resent every immigrant who has a job in the U.S.
I’d be happiest if he said this was not his position, that it evolved, etc., that’d be fine...
I'd be happiest (my pony) if he said, "Minimum wage laws and cumbersome government regulation make it a losing proposition for American companies to hire teenagers and low-skilled people, a vast resource of American workers, so those jobs primarily go to illegal immigrants in whose nations our minimum wage is a substantial income. Government welfare like food stamps, subsidized housing, free education and medical care, given to illegal immigrants make the problem worse. Get rid of minimum wage laws, and watch a large percentage of the illegal immigration problem melt away."
That's what I'd like for Ted Cruz to say!
I take it you do not work in IT and therefore have not watched your friends, neighbors, members of your church, and your community put out of work, offered lower paying jobs, sometimes even asked to train their cheap foreign labor replacement. This is a BIG PROBLEM in IT and sorry you have no appreciation for it. Making fund of it, dismissing it as racism is a great liberal tactic. Don’t we have enough of that already without so-call conservatives doing the same. Maybe you fit right in with Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.