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The White House | November 1, 2018 President Trump makes announcement on America’s border crisis  Silence can speak volumes. As a caravan with thousands of migrants heads toward the U.S. border, Democrats and their media allies are hoping Americans won’t notice that the modern left once again has no credible message on illegal immigration. It didn’t used to be that way. “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.” What right-wing extremist uttered those words in 2005? None other than then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. President Obama wasn’t alone—Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, and other prominent Democrats once echoed those beliefs. Democrats may not have had a real solution to the problem, of course, but they at least understood they must acknowledge that illegal immigration represents a threat to the rule of law. Not so in 2018. Beholden to an anti-Trump base, Congressional Democrats could only muster an unpopular call to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in its entirety as their strongest immigration proposal. By contrast, President Trump delivered a clear message and proposed solution to the migrant crisis this afternoon. “America is a welcoming country,” he said from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “We will not allow our generosity to be abused by those who would break our laws, defy our rules, violate our borders, [and] break into our country illegally.” To confront the problem, “my Administration is finalizing a plan to end the rampant abuse of our asylum system,” the President announced. Watch: President Trump addresses the immigration crisis from the White House Get the facts: Think there’s no border emergency? Here are the numbers.   News of the week: Paychecks see the biggest jump in a decade Just as President Trump, Larry Kudlow, and Ivanka Trump were preparing to announce that private-sector companies and associations have committed to more than 6 million new training and education opportunities for American workers, more great news on the Trump Economy broke. “Wages and salaries rose 3.1 percent in the third quarter, the biggest increase in a decade,” CNBC reported yesterday. Pay increases had been the missing link in the economic “recovery” of the Obama years following the 2007-08 Financial Crisis. Now, with unemployment at 3.7 percent—its lowest point since 1969—“wage pressures have begun to build.” That’s a big win for our great workforce. Bonus: “The wage data came the same day that ADP and Moody’s reported private payroll growth of 227,000 in October, easily beating Wall Street expectations.” CNBC: “Wages and salaries jump by 3.1%, highest level in a decade” Photo of the Day Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian President Donald J. Trump addresses the illegal immigration crisis and gives an update on border security | November 1, 2018

President Trump: Pledge for More Career Opportunities Helped 6 Million

“Four months after signing an executive order creating the National Council for the American Worker, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that more than 160 companies and organizations have pledged to provide more than 6 million new career opportunities for Americans,” including apprenticeships, continuing education, on-the-job training, and reskilling, The Associated Press reports. “This represents an enormous opportunity for us to think about making sure that every American worker is equipped with the skills they need,” Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump said from the State Dining Room yesterday. Click here to read more.   “How can you tell whether the economy is truly surging under President Trump? Just listen as the Democrats try to take at least some credit for the current economic boom,” former executive Andy Puzder writes in Fox News. “Let’s be clear: The economy is booming because President Trump reversed President Obama’s economic policies – not because Trump furthered the Obama policies.”   In RealClearPolitics, Kalev Leetaru writes that data on recent media coverage of political violence reveals President Trump is right: There is a clear double standard that must be addressed. “When a Sanders supporter and campaign volunteer opened fire on GOP members, the media quickly stopped mentioning the connection,” Leetaru writes. “Yet days before anything was known about last week’s bomber, the media had settled on Trump as the cause.”   “New applications for U.S. unemployment aid fell last week and the number of Americans receiving benefits was the lowest in more than 45 years,” Reuters reports. According to the Labor Department, initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 for last week.   “Since January 2017, the Trump administration’s expansive efforts to identify, prevent and combat opioid misuse among injured federal workers receiving workers’ compensation benefits have generated effective and compassionate solutions,” Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta writes in the Concord Monitor. “This administration’s actions, including ours at the Department of Labor, have resulted in fewer injured federal employees using prescription opioids.”