[cripplecreek]

His call to raise the cap was turned down by the gang of 8 for a reason.

They knew it wouldn’t actually lead to an increase in the numbers because it was tied raising wages for imported labor to equal what domestic labor makes. Penalties for hiring foreign labor would be increased by thousands of dollars per employee etc.

[conservativejoy]

Good point. Those that have railed against Cruz on this issue completely overlooked that qualifying aspect of the increase being tied to equal wages.

[21twelve]

Both Trump and Cruz had a similar view of the H1B-1 when it came to foreigners that we educated in our colleges, but then forced many of them to leave upon graduation. And both were under the impression that we had shortages of smart people in some sectors. I know that Cruz had in there that the companies needed to prove that no Americans were available.

Cruz also had some statistics on how many small businesses these foreigners started and employed locals, although I'm not so sure that is all that great when they often can get preferred status as a “minority”, which is just Crony Capitalism.