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  • Ted Cruz, the presidential candidate who wants to increase the H-1B cap by 500%

    02/09/2016 7:51:07 AM PST · by xzins · 116 replies
    ComputerWorld ^ | 23 Mar 15 | Patrick Thibodeau
    It's going to be hard for the Republicans to field a presidential candidate as enthusiastic about the H-1B visa as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Cruz, who announced his presidential bid this morning, once proposed an immediate increase in the base H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. Cruz offered the H-1B increase as an amendment in 2013 to the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill. Cruz's amendment was defeated by the Senate's Judiciary Committee, which approved an 180,000 H-1B cap increase in the comprehensive immigration bill. The House never acted on this legislation. Cruz's H-1B amendment, however, proposed increasing H-1B fees from...