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Legal Immigration: Where Trump and Cruz Radically Disagree
Breitbart ^ | August 21, 2015 | staff

Posted on 08/21/2015 6:43:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

At Bloomberg, Sahil Kapur explains that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 96% disagrees with Donald Trump about legal immigration:

Though Cruz’s get-tough attitude on illegal immigration certainly matches Trump’s, the two men differ vastly on policies involving legal immigration. While the real estate mogul’s plan calls for a swath of protectionist measures to curb legal immigration, Cruz has championed anexpansion of legal immigration, arguing it would help the economy.

During the 2013 immigration debate, the Texas senator proposed an amendment to the comprehensive “gang of eight” Senate bill that he boasted would “dramatically increas[e]” the annual limit on H-1B skilled guest worker visas from—65,000 to 325,000—a five-fold expansion. ...............

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; anchorbabies; anchorbaby; election2016; h1b; immigration; legalimmigration; newyork; tedcruz; texas; trump
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Aug 21, 2015- Breitbart: Sen. Jeff Sessions: GOP Nominee Must Support Pro-American Worker Trade, Immigration Platform

April 20, 2015 - Breitbart: Scott Walker Lays Out Pro American Worker Stance on Immigration "During an interview with Glenn Beck, Walker became the first declared or potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate to stake out a position on immigration fully in line with that of Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). He also noted that he has been working with Chairman Sessions on the issue to learn more about it.

Walker is now the only potential or declared GOP presidential candidate to discuss the negative effects of a massive increase in legal immigration on American workers:..........................."

1 posted on 08/21/2015 6:43:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Well, maybe not.


2 posted on 08/21/2015 6:47:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’m a Cruz fan but he does have some ‘splainin’ to do on this one.


3 posted on 08/21/2015 6:48:28 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Trump and Cruz are miles apart on legal immigration......but Cruz's transparent "VP-pick-me" gambit insists the two bonded over the issue of illegal immigration...

Scott Walker is far closer.

A huge red flag is that Cruz grovels for latino votes....consistently depicts himself as "latino" Yet his family bgrnd indicates he's only 1/3 latino. He's been living large, seeking the spotlight. off his last name for ages. Could be a latino "us against them" battle-cry behind all the conservative blather,

And while Trump has ignited America's visceral contempt for politicians...voters will be aghast knowing Cruz has been running around like crazy, becoming a Washington Insider.

CURRENT COMMITTES (Cruz web site):

•Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities

•Subcommittee on Seapower

•Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

•Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, Chairman

•Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security

•Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet

•Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security

•Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard

Committee on the Judiciary

•Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, Chairman

•Subcommittee on The Constitution

•Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest

Joint Economic Committee

Committee on Rules & Administration

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BGRND---Elected senator in 2012 and is the first Hispanic or Cuban American to serve as a U.S. Senator representing Texas. He is the chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.[7] He is also the chairman of the United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Space, Science and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.

Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz was the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States Department of Justice, and domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. He served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.[8]

Cruz was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, from 2004 to 2009.[12][13] While there, he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.[12]

Cruz is one of three US Senators of Cuban descent.

Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison.[15] On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57%–43%.[16] Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler in the general election on November 6, 2012. He prevailed 56%–41% over Sadler.[16][17]

On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. (WIKI)

4 posted on 08/21/2015 6:48:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: cripplecreek

Isn’t that interesting...


5 posted on 08/21/2015 6:48:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

How come Trump is the only one to state something so damned obviously the correct policy - that immigration policy should benefit the American citizenry first and foremost.


6 posted on 08/21/2015 6:50:23 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Texas Eagle

Agreed. America does NOT need more legal immigration OR H1B visas.


7 posted on 08/21/2015 6:51:06 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("See her for a moment Then she melts away. The ghost of Charlotte Corday." Al Stewart)
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To: skeeter

Post #1. Walker is now the only potential or declared GOP presidential candidate to discuss the negative effects of a massive increase in legal immigration on American workers:...........................”


8 posted on 08/21/2015 6:51:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: skeeter

That’s one GOOD reason why so many people support Trump.


9 posted on 08/21/2015 6:51:50 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("See her for a moment Then she melts away. The ghost of Charlotte Corday." Al Stewart)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Things are trending in the right direction. I’ll wait to see if they progress beyond talk.


10 posted on 08/21/2015 6:52:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I think that Trump and Santorum also have been discussing it, CW.


11 posted on 08/21/2015 6:53:13 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("See her for a moment Then she melts away. The ghost of Charlotte Corday." Al Stewart)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Santorum is the other one beside Trump who has expressly said they want to reduce legal immigration.


12 posted on 08/21/2015 6:53:51 AM PDT by kabar
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April 20, 2015 - Breitbart: Scott Walker Lays Out Pro American Worker Stance on Immigration “During an interview with Glenn Beck, Walker became the first declared or potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate to stake out a position on immigration fully in line with that of Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). He also noted that he has been working with Chairman Sessions on the issue to learn more about it.

Walker is now the only potential or declared GOP presidential candidate to discuss the negative effects of a massive increase in legal immigration on American workers:...........................”


13 posted on 08/21/2015 6:54:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
While the real estate mogul’s plan calls for a swath of protectionist measures to curb legal immigration,

Lol, the writer forgot to say racist. They can't even discuss immigration policy without dragging out their tired old slur words. Now, even thinking about lower legal immigration is protectionist. This nation has changed the level of legal immigration many times and its only logical to do so as economic conditions change.

Cruz is wrong on this. Sometimes his policy sounds like: let so many come legally that no one will have to come illegally.

14 posted on 08/21/2015 6:55:11 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hb1 and the little known HB2 visas are killing lower and middle class America.

Ted Cruz support for Obamatrade was shameful as well.

They Took Our Jobs - Immigration Stories You Are Not Supposed to Hear H-1B H-2B Visas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YItkuxv7dhU

Immigration attorneys from Cohen & Grigsby explains how they assist employers in running classified ads with the goal of NOT finding any qualified applicants, and the steps they go through to disqualify even the most qualified Americans in order to secure green cards for H-1b workers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU


15 posted on 08/21/2015 6:59:32 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The net immigration is what matters: it should be whatever is best for the whole country. And practically none of it illegal.
Since ending illegal immigration will require ‘some’ increase in legal immigration with our demographics I don’t see a real point here.

Nonetheless Cruz did err on his H1B numbers and is fair game for it.


16 posted on 08/21/2015 6:59:43 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I like Cruz but he’s dead wrong here. We need a timeout on ALL immigration. The left has been on a raging campaign to turn this country into a third world hell hole and it needs to stop!


17 posted on 08/21/2015 7:00:15 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Walker has never explicitly said he would reduce legal immigration. He did say that the interests of American workers come first. Walker has not come close to what Trump said in his plan about the American worker:

Put American Workers First

Decades of disastrous trade deals and immigration policies have destroyed our middle class. Today, nearly 40% of black teenagers are unemployed. Nearly 30% of Hispanic teenagers are unemployed. For black Americans without high school diplomas, the bottom has fallen out: more than 70% were employed in 1960, compared to less than 40% in 2000. Across the economy, the percentage of adults in the labor force has collapsed to a level not experienced in generations. As CBS news wrote in a piece entitled “America’s incredible shrinking middle class”: “If the middle-class is the economic backbone of America, then the country is developing osteoporosis.”

The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working class Americans – including immigrants themselves and their children – to earn a middle class wage. Nearly half of all immigrants and their US-born children currently live in or near poverty, including more than 60 percent of Hispanic immigrants. Every year, we voluntarily admit another 2 million new immigrants, guest workers, refugees, and dependents, growing our existing all-time historic record population of 42 million immigrants. We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers in order to: help wages grow, get teenagers back to work, aid minorities’ rise into the middle class, help schools and communities falling behind, and to ensure our immigrant members of the national family become part of the American dream.

Additionally, we need to stop giving legal immigrant visas to people bent on causing us harm. From the 9/11 hijackers, to the Boston Bombers, and many others, our immigration system is being used to attack us. The President of the immigration caseworkers union declared in a statement on ISIS: “We've become the visa clearinghouse for the world.”

Here are some additional specific policy proposals for long-term reform:

Increase prevailing wage for H-1Bs. We graduate two times more Americans with STEM degrees each year than find STEM jobs, yet as much as two-thirds of entry-level hiring for IT jobs is accomplished through the H-1B program. More than half of H-1B visas are issued for the program's lowest allowable wage level, and more than eighty percent for its bottom two. Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas. This will improve the number of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program. Mark Zuckerberg’s personal Senator, Marco Rubio, has a bill to triple H-1Bs that would decimate women and minorities.

Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need to companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.

End welfare abuse. Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, healthcare and other needs before coming to the U.S.

Jobs program for inner city youth. The J-1 visa jobs program for foreign youth will be terminated and replaced with a resume bank for inner city youth provided to all corporate subscribers to the J-1 visa program.

Refugee program for American children. Increase standards for the admission of refugees and asylum-seekers to crack down on abuses. Use the monies saved on expensive refugee programs to help place American children without parents in safer homes and communities, and to improve community safety in high crime neighborhoods in the United States.

Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.

18 posted on 08/21/2015 7:02:39 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

It’s good that Trump is following Sessions’ and Walker’s lead on this.


19 posted on 08/21/2015 7:05:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: dragonblustar

It wasn’t just Cruz. Walker is a supporter of TPA.

TPA enables the Obama’s secret “trade” deals by limiting amendments and lowering the bar for passage in Congress. We’ve seen with the Iran deal what a good idea that is. What was Walker smoking when he decided to support TPA?

In addition to enabling Obamatrade, TPA also queues up other trade deals that are suspected of being trojan horses to massively increase legal immigration. But we don’t know because they are still secret deals.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/11/scott-walker-pushes-obamatrade-on-eve-of-vote/


20 posted on 08/21/2015 7:06:43 AM PDT by lodi90
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