President Donald Trump says he is working with a pair of Republican senators to “create a new immigration system for America.”
Trump is endorsing legislation introduced by Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue that would put new limits on legal immigration. At a campaign-style rally Tuesday in Ohio, he said,
“We want a merit-based system, one that protects our workers” and one that “protects our economy.”
Trump is also trumpeting his administration’s tough approach to illegal immigration and illegal gangs.
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Trump says that “people are screaming from their windows, ‘Thank you, thank you’ ” to the border patrol and his Homeland Security secretary.
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He’s also applauding what he says is a tougher approach to rooting out gangs. Trump says law enforcement is “not doing it in a politically correct fashion.”
He says: “our guys are rougher than their guys.”
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