CRUZ or lose.
Posted on 01/20/2015 4:24:14 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Offers amendment to increase H-1B visas to help improve, retain high-skilled labor force
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) today presented an amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that would improve our nation’s legal immigration system by increasing high-skilled temporary worker visas, called H-1B visas, by 500 percent. The measure would effectively address the needs of our nation’s high-skilled workforce by helping meet the growing demand for workers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. It will also make block grants available to states to promote STEM education efforts and increase domestic STEM professionals. The committee voted against the amendment 4 to 14 with every Democrat voting against it on a party-line vote.
Legal immigration is a fundamental pillar of our nation's heritage, and I was pleased today to offer legislation that would have improved and expanded legal immigration by dramatically increasing the cap for high-tech temporary worker visas. This amendment would not only improve the current system, but would also encourage economic growth and create new jobs in America. There is currently a serious shortage of workers in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math, yet every year we send thousands of high-tech graduate students back to their home countries to start businesses and create jobs. This makes no sense. I’m disappointed in the committee’s vote to reject expanding high-tech immigration. Although the Gang of Eight's bill makes a modest step towards improving high-tech immigration, it does not go nearly far enough. There is no reason to arbitrarily cap high-tech visas at 110,000 when these jobs are going unfilled. We need economic growth here and now.”
Sen. Cruz’s amendment would:
Immediately increase the H-1B cap by 500 percent from 65,000 to 325,000.
• To truly fix our broken immigration system and take into account our nation’s economic needs, we must put more emphasis on increasing employment-based immigration. (EEE's comments in red - No mention of reducing the size, scope, and power of Fedzilla, which would unleash jobs on its own). There is a current shortage of qualified high-skilled workers in the U.S., with an estimated 230,000 advanced-degree STEM jobs going unfilled by 2018. Shortage caused by the feds sticking their grimy paws in the economy and picking winners and losers.
• Additionally, more H-1B workers mean more jobs for American workers – according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute, for every additional 100 H-1B workers, 183 jobs are created for U.S. citizens. How? What was this study based on and who funded it?
Help retain the high-skilled workers that are trained in the U.S. by allowing “dual intent.” What exactly is this?
• This would allow foreign students at U.S. colleges and universities to enter the U.S. on a temporary H-1B visa if they intend to get a Green Card once they complete their studies. This is Roman-style suicide for any nation
• Currently, about 300,000 students come to America annually to be educated, but are required to return home upon completing their education. Why can't they get edumacated in their own crapholes and improve their country's way of life?
Create block grants for states to promote STEM education in their public schools by raising H-1B fees. More borrowing and spending that we can't afford. I thought Cruz was a fiscal conservative?
• These block grants will encourage educating our children in these high demand fields, opening more doors of opportunity to future generations. According to the Joint Economic Committee, between 2010 and 2020, demand for STEM graduates is expected to grow by 17 percent, while employment for those graduates will increase only 14 percent, partly because American graduates are not available or qualified to fill these jobs.
• The block grant program would be funded by raising H-1B fees from $750 to $1,250 for businesses with fewer than 25 employees, and from $1,500 to $2,500 for those with 25 or more employees.
Stop immigration tomorrow. It won’t matter to me.
But faking an issue like this just to stop Ted Cruz is stupid.
I support Cruz you alienist. Answer why we should allow millions of immigrants into the USA who vote 80% democrat.
Don’t try to pretend that you have been posting to me about Cruz, you were pushing immigration.
Maybe you really don’t like Cruz.
It’s why I mentioned Cruz in my first post.
This whole thread is nothing but a front to try to hurt Cruz. But it won’t work.
If Cruz is really your target, why can’t you admit it?
You are some sort of weird troll evidently.
I’m with you, Onyx.
Umm, no....my posting history says otherwise.
You don’t understand.
Cruz supporters, especially at this point in the game, are not stupid enough to fall for the same old leftist/rino tactics like ostracism.
I’ll spell it out for you. If you call names, that’s one thing. But when you use words like “weird” it becomes obvious you’re doing more than just arguing your point—you’re attempting to ostracize. Because your argument got nuked.
Call it the weakness of the moron class. Their tactics give them away.
I “know” you are!!
Why are you so defensive about your posting history?
Did you spend that much effort trying to build it up?
Man, you are weird.
You are wrong about immigration though, and that is a fact that won’t go away.
You really are a gem.
I’d rather be a Cruz supporter than a leftist troll who can’t admit what his real game is.
Sweetest you.
God bless and keep you and everyone you love.
You said I did not like Cruz. I pointed out to you that I support Cruz. Simple.
Oh no we’re being overrun by legal immigrants!
What’s really stupid is you guys think this silly thing is gonna hurt Cruz.
And to you and yours, Onyx. I said a prayer for you.
I agree that once we close the border and get illegal immigration under control, we can consider some limited expansion of legal immigration in order to let off some steam from a sealed border and to defray the issue some.
First, the border must be sealed.
I oppose a focus on STEM jobs, there is already enough foreign pressure on those jobs.
Finally, I’m going to point out my biggest quibble with Ted Cruz. I’m not trying to give EEE, who has an agenda, ammo, but this is FR and we should support the truth and vet our candidates
The link below is a 2 minute video of Ted Cruz, shot in Waco, TX during the 2012 Senate Race (when there were nine primary candidates before the runoff). By means of background, this was after a forum of several of the Senate candidates where Dewhurst did not attend. Cruz got himself into the runoff by going to these events and sitting down with anybody who would talk to him. I met him three times during this three month period. This video was shot by a group whose goal is increasing Hispanic support in the GOP (GOPisforme) and the video is regarding birthright citizenship. In it, Ted Cruz states that birthright citizenship is part of the Constitution and uses his credibility as a Constitutional lawyer to support that claim.
You listed on your points about Sen Cruz that he opposes birthright citizenship. Here he is saying not so.
I’ve been accused several times here on FR of drinking the koolaid when it comes to Cruz. I think he’s by far the best choice, even the best choice on immigration. But. He’s not perfect. Neither was Reagan.
I’ll take him, flaws and all over what the establishment hopes to foist on us.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ab7XPocA0Y
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