Cruz flip-flops on legal immigration, implies most illegals can stay

Marco Rubio of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are both United States congresspersons, they’re both the offspring of Cuban foreigners, they’re both running for president, and they are both surging in the surveys on account of solid exhibitions in Republican competitor discusses.

“A steady flow of illegal immigrants coming in, driving down wages, impacts the wages of just about every person here”, Cruz told hundreds of cheering supporters gathered in an Orlando megachurch Friday. Ted Cruz aimed at Rubio during the debate hardly was a haymaker.

The ills of “amnesty” would not stop in the USA, Cruz said.

For Cruz, the Rubio broadside is a wide departure from the first seven months of his campaign, when he assiduously avoided commenting directly on his competitors.

The fact is that all illegals have committed at least one crime: entering the country illegally.

The idea that Texas’ junior senator is the “sane” alternative in a GOP primary is a dream come true for Cruz, who is reviled in Washington D.C. for his pungent mix of narcissism, self-destructive revanchism, and willingness to defame anyone but Donald Trump. He must consider it safer than defending his previous support for a path to citizenship for the undocumented, which has now been watered down to support for something that might be more feasible politically: green cards with a “very long” path to citizenship.

Cruz also boasted about his amendment to the 2013 immigration reform bill that would have boosted the number of H1B visas for high-skilled workers from 65,000 to 325,000 on a yearly basis. He’s supported a massive expansion of the (H-1B visa) program, a 500 percent increase… Cruz didn’t say he would deport everyone, but he also didn’t mention whether a few people would be allowed to remain in the USA legally, as he has before.

Paul also criticized Rubio’s proposal to increase the child tax credit and said Rubio’s call for more defense spending would increase Pentagon waste. In fact, most of the audience probably did not understand that Cruz was taking a jab at Rubio when Cruz said his plan to slash the federal budget included eliminating “corporate welfare, like sugar subsidies”.

Suspend the issuance of all H-1B visas for 180 days to complete a comprehensive investigation and audit of pervasive allegations of abuse of the program: Initiate an immediate 180-day investigation and audit of the H-1B visa program and enact fundamental reforms of this program to ensure that it protects American workers.

They have been engaged in an increasingly nasty feud, with Trump trying furiously to knock Carson down while Carson has continued to face questions about stories from his personal background. Legislation? Does Cruz no longer believe the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship for illegals born here? He says such immigrants are stealing jobs from USA citizens.

Cruz and Rubio were elected with tea-party backing, but Rubio upset much of that base when he sponsored the immigration bill. “I don’t know if people will work with him – and then we’d have the same stupid gridlock”.

“Legal immigration needs to be structured so that it serves America’s needs”, said Cruz, according to CNN.

He saved most of his venom for undocumented immigrants and those who want to allow them to stay in the USA, insisting border-crossers may be terrorists or disease-ridden and that “amnesty” would drastically change the safety of the country and the world.