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 from65,000 to 325,000a five-fold expansion. ...............That gang of 8 bill Cruz tried to amend by increasing H1b visas 5 fold also called for issuing 30 million green cards laden with legal benefits.