Kasich, Cruz, Rubio Talk Tough on Foreign Workers While Concealing Efforts to Expand Guest Worker Programs
by JULIA HAHN
BreitBart.com
11 Mar 2016
MIAMI, FL– Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97%
, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
all talked tough on immigration while concealing their prior support for expanding guest worker programs during Thursday night’s Republican debate.
According to Pew polling data, 92 percent of the Republican electorate — and 83 percent of the American electorate overall — believes that the level of immigration present in the country should be either frozen or reduced.
This may explain why Kasich, Cruz, and Rubio did not volunteer their prior support for increasing guest worker programs. For instance, Sen. Cruz was asked about the nation’s rate of visa issuances — which distributes one million green cards and 700,000 guest worker visas annually. When asked what he believes the “right level” of immigration should be, Cruz said:
We need to redefine our legal immigration system so that it meets the needs of the American economy. Right now, we’re bringing in far too many low skilled workers. What that is doing is driving down the wages of hard-working Americans. Our system isn’t working.
Cruz did not mention his amendment to the Gang of Eight bill to double the supply of green cards — which would have resulted in an explosion of low-skilled immigration — nor did he mention his push to quintuple the H-1B program, which would allow American tech and white-collar workers to be replaced with lower-paid foreign labor.
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