Castro Wants to Increase H-1B Visas as Trump Continues Crackdown

Presidential hopeful Julian Castro is seeking to distinguish himself from both President Donald Trump and his fellow Democratic ticket contenders on immigration, in part by promoting increases to employment visas.

Castro, the former Housing and Urban Development Department secretary and former mayor of San Antonio, said June 20 that he had “the first and most comprehensive immigration proposal of this 2020 campaign.”

That plan is “a completely different vision for immigration” than Trump’s, he said at the annual conference of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Orlando, Fla.

Castro spoke in broad strokes about various aspects of immigration, from ending ...