Cruz pushed for doubling of immigrants

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Washington Examiner
Article date: 
24 March 2016
Article category: 
National News
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H-1B
jobs
legal immigration
refugee
election
islam
multiculturalism
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lans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 that would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, were raised by the Trump campaign Tuesday.
 
Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000. He said his idea was to actually help kill the bill not boost the numbers.
 
"I was introducing a whole series of amendments, in part to demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Democrats. So, for example, the Democrats claimed they were supporting high-tech workers, so I introduced an amendment on that, every Democrat voted against it, which demonstrated that this was all a political endeavor for them, that what they were saying wasn't true," he told radio's Laura Ingraham...

Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.

Under the Cruz amendments, shown in full below, the yearly cap on green cards would have increased from 675,000 to 1.35 million, not including refugees and asylees...

A second amendment would have boosted the H-1B visa cap for high-tech workers from 65,000 to 325,000...

Two Cruz immigration amendments from his Senate webpage:...

 

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H-1B high-tech worker job displacement

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Ted Cruz Pushed to Dramatically Expand Muslim Migration in 2013, Breitbart, March 24, 2016.

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