The Cruz campaign just hit me up for a donation - here was my reply:
Dear Jason,
Since signing up for Sen. Cruz’ campaign, I’ve learned of his past support for a 500% expansion of the H-1B visa cap. I can’t support a candidate who holds that position; it’s bad for my family and bad for America.
Sen. Cruz based his support on an AEI analysis that has been exposed as flawed - see the following links:
http://econdataus.com/amerjobs.htm
http://econdataus.com/amjobs1.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3271551/posts?page=216#216 (and preceding)
Until I hear that Sen. Cruz has corrected his error, I can’t support his campaign.
(Please forward this email within the campaign organization as appropriate.)
Sincerely,
Thanks for referencing my site! As it happens, I've written and posted three open letters to my representative, Senators, and Obama. The first one referenced some initial data that I had compiled on the topic, the second one referenced some data that I had compiled on Labor Condition Applications, and the third one referenced the studies that I had analyzed and/or replicated. I only got a response from my representative.
A funny thing happened on the first response from my representative. I had emailed him the first open letter and a letter generated at the web site of an organization against expanding the H-1B program. I received the exact same form letter to both of those letters and that letter stated how "we need to reform our broken immigration system" and spoke positively of bills to increase H-1B visas and green cards. I replied and told them what had happened and that I understood that they may be inundated by form emails from groups like FWD.us. However, I suggested that, if they insisted on sending form letters, they really needed to figure out some way to distinguish between letters in favor and against increasing the H-1B cap and send a different form letter to each group. I actually got a call from someone at the representative's office who assured me that the representative was attuned to the concerns of workers. Of course, that may have been prompted by the fact that this was shortly before an election. I have gotten no responses since then.