Ted Cruz was FOR the H1-B before he was against it.
I guess Ted saw Trump’s numbers, and decided to change positions. It’s just like the TPP.
Although Ted voted for the TPA which makes it easy to pass the TPP by bypassing the 2/3 agreement required in the U.S. Constitution for any treaty.
Anyhow, Cruz was for H1-Bs, and changed only changed his position when he saw Trump was crushing him on this.
Here is link that Cruz was for the H1-B
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/ted-cruz-immigration-h1-b-visas/
I believe the correct answer is that Cruz believed the propaganda of the tech industry, that we were importing geniuses to remedy a desperate shortage of skilled workers.
Once he found out what is really going on, he changed his position. It is easy enough for guys in the tech industry, who work with this all the time, to say that ‘everybody knows what they’re really doing’. But members of Congress are isolated in Washington, and depend on someone else bringing the facts to their attention.
I guess Ted saw Trump's numbers, and decided to change positions. It's just like the TPP.
Although Ted voted for the TPA which makes it easy to pass the TPP by bypassing the 2/3 agreement required in the U.S. Constitution for any treaty.
Anyhow, Cruz was for H1-Bs, and only changed his position when he saw Trump was crushing him on this.
Here is link that Cruz was for the H1-B
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/politics/ted-cruz-immigration-h1-b-visas/
You're absolutely right. Cruz held his 500% increase from 2013 until November 2015? Why? Maybe because 90 days earlier Trump published his immigration plan which included: "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 numb er of black, Hispanic and female workers in Silicon Valley who have been passed over in favor of the H-1B program."
And note Cruz' speech was in Orlando which is especially vested in Disney with a very large number of Disney employees.
There is also a lot of weasly lawyerese in Cruz's plan:
"I will SUSPEND the program for 180 days to investigate abuses." Well, what if he doesn't find any so-called abuses, or says he has fixed the abuses and reinstates his preferred level?
On suspending the plan for 180 days, which, incidentally, is one H1b application season, each year October to April. Why not a concrete statement about what he will or will not do. This, along the lines of Cruz's statement 'after we secure the border, we can have a conversation about what the American people want to do about illegal immigration".
"Halt any increases in legal immigration so long as American unemployment remains unacceptably high."
As far as "unacceptably high" unemployment, first that figure is so disputable it's laughable. Right now, it's 4.8. What's to keep Cruz from reinstating whatever restrictions he places on the program, once he deems unemployment at an acceptable rate?
This kind of stuff is what showed me what Cruz is all about. A lot of lawyer speech. Another: After he closes the border "I do not intend to support illegal immigration." Not I never will, or in no way will I ever ... I don't intend. Well, I don't "intend" to do a lot of things, but things happen. These are all the convenient back doors Cruz likes to construct with his words. Wiggle room, reptilian.