Santorum: “Mr. Conservative” Cruz Wants 500% Hike in Foreign Workers

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.Rick_Santorum_by_Gage_Skidmore_7

“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.