Miles apart, because Cruz proposes more permission to H1B.
Earth to Liz, Earth to Liz. H1B is not what is sucking the welfare system down and pushing the crime sky high.
I agree. A few thousand Indian IT professionals here on H1B visas aren't fundamentally transforming our culture and economy. There aren't any US cities being transformed into mini-Mumbais or mini-Calcutta. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, however, are fundamentally transforming American society, and parts of the US Southwest are already for all intents and purposes indistinguishable from Mexico culturally and economically. Nor are these H1B workers or their kids likely to be gang members or indigent squatters.
I don't agree with Cruz's stance of increasing H1B quotas (i.e. until unemployment is effectively zero, I see no justification for increasing work visas for foreigners), but a few thousand Asian professionals with work permits are far down on the list of things to worry about when it comes to immigration.