Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum took aim at fellow candidates Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio but especially Ted Cruz over their support for massive increases in visas for foreign high-tech workers under the H1-B program.
“It’s not just the Democrats. It’s Democrats and Republicans,” Santorum said of immigration supporters, according to the Quad-City Times. “It’s Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and, yes, it’s Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz wants to take the H-1B program and increase it by 500 percent. He wants to go from 65,000 to 330,000. Again, ‘Mr. Conservative.’ Everybody [says] how conservative he is. He wants to increase it by five times.”
Santorum has made all immigration, not just illegal immigration, a centerpiece of his campaign.