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y would make Democrats accountable for working with President Trump to help solve it. Their leaders have already gone on the record to say they will not. Instead, they hope to keep a lid on the ugly, painful truths behind the emergency unfolding along our southern border. It is time to set the record straight: Myth: There is no crisis at the border. Fact: More than 76,000 people attempted to cross our border illegally last month alone—the most of any February during the past 12 years.   Myth: The problem at the border used to be much worse. Fact: Today, we face an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants that loopholes prevent from being returned quickly to their home countries. Criminal smugglers exploit these rulings and use children as leverage to gain entry.   Myth: A wall wouldn’t help stop the flow of drugs. Fact: Not only do we not know the amount of drugs smuggled between ports of entry, but building the wall will help law enforcement personnel carry out their missions more safely and effectively in remote areas of the border. Top 5 Border Falsehoods Pushed by Congressional Democrats and the Media Watch: The President has a duty to fix this crisis, Press Secretary Sanders says

30 years ago, the Czech Republic fought off Communism This year, America and the Czech Republic celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the inspiring Velvet Revolution, when the people of Czechoslovakia took back their freedom and ended decades of Communist oppression. President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Mrs. Monika Babisova to the White House today. Upon their arrival, the President congratulated Prime Minister Babis on this historic anniversary. He also noted that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic joining NATO. “We share the view that peace, security, and prosperity depend on the cooperation of sovereign nations,” President Trump and the Prime Minister said in a joint statement today. “Strength at home is a necessary foundation for peace and security abroad.” Read the full statement from President Trump and Prime Minister Babis.

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President Donald J. Trump escorts the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babis along the Colonnade of the White House | March 7, 2019 REAL NEWS PRESIDENT TRUMP DOESN'T WANT YOU TO MISS Trump Visits 23 Crosses for Tornado Victims -The Daily Caller Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump honored the victims who were killed in Alabama after tornadoes ravaged the area last weekend, Katie Jerkovich reports. “During the trip, the president and first lady stopped by a row of crosses outside the Providence Baptist Church in Opelika that had been set up in honor of the 23 people who were killed in the storm. The two stood quietly together and held hands in front of each cross.” Watch: The President and First Lady visit Alabama Yeah, This Looks Like a Border Crisis -New York Post “More than 76,000 migrants crossed the southern border illegally last month, the highest number in 12 years. So much for all those media ‘fact checks’ arguing that there’s no emergency to justify President Trump’s wall,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “Smugglers have put [migrants] wise to how to take advantage of recent court decisions to claim asylum and remain here indefinitely.” ‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border -The New York Times “On America’s southern border, migrant women and girls are the victims of sexual assaults that most often go unreported, uninvestigated and unprosecuted,” Manny Fernandez reports. “The stories are many, and yet all too similar. Undocumented women making their way into American border towns have been beaten for disobeying smugglers, impregnated by strangers, coerced into prostitution, shackled to beds and trees and — in at least a handful of cases — bound with duct tape, rope or handcuffs.” A Hot US Job Market is Coaxing People in from the Sidelines -The Associated Press “A surprisingly strong burst of job growth over the past year has led many economists to wonder: Where are all the workers coming from?” Christopher Rugaber writes. “The pace of hiring in 2018 was the most robust in three years, and for a surprising reason: Many more people have decided to look for work than experts had expected.” New this week: Wage growth is the fastest it’s been since 2009 White House Presses Businesses to Reshape Training Efforts -The Wall Street Journal This week, President Trump hosted the first meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, a group that includes Apple CEO Tim Cook and Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson. “Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser, is co-chair of the board, which aims to develop plans for how U.S. employers and the government can better train workers,” Eric Morath and Rebecca Ballhaus write. 90 Percent of Big Manufacturers High on Trump Economy, Set 4.4 Percent Growth Target -Washington Examiner “The nation’s top manufacturers have for the ninth consecutive quarter given the Trump economy a thumbs up, setting record industry optimism of the economy and predicting positive growth unseen during the Obama administration,” Paul Bedard reports. “The past nine quarters . . . have seen record optimism, with an average of 91.8 percent of manufacturers positive about their own firm, compared to an average of 68.6 percent during the last two years of the Obama administration.” Small Business Hiring Breaks Record -The Wall Street Journal “The great American jobs machine is still roaring,” James Freeman writes. One piece of evidence: a historic February hiring binge by U.S. small businesses. According to the latest employment report from the National Federation of Independent Business, small business job creation broke a 45-year record last month. First Lady Visits Microsoft to Discuss Online Safety For Kids -The Seattle Times On Monday, First Lady Melania Trump visited Microsoft in Washington state to learn about the company’s work on accessibility and online safety for children, Paul Roberts reports. The software giant “was the second stop in a three-city tour to promote the first lady’s ‘Be Best’ initiative, which is calling attention to child well-being, online safety and anti-bullying efforts and opioid abuse.” Nadler’s ‘Obstruction’ Quest -The Wall Street Journal “Democrats seem hell-bent on impeaching Mr. Trump, and most of the media will be cheering them on,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) subpoena swarm is meant “to turn the President’s exercise of his normal constitutional powers into impeachable offenses.” A Hot US Job Market is Coaxing People in from the Sidelines “A surprisingly strong burst of job growth over the past year has led many economists to wonder: Where are all the workers coming from?” Christopher Rugaber writes in The Associated Press. “The pace of hiring in 2018 was the most robust in three years, and for a surprising reason: Many more people have decided to look for work than experts had expected. The influx of those job seekers, if sustained, could help extend an economic expansion that is already the second-longest on record.” Click here to read more. Breaking this morning: Wage growth is the fastest since 2009 In The Wall Street Journal, James Freeman writes that the American jobs machine is roaring as “U.S. small businesses in February went on an historic hiring binge.” According to the latest employment report from the National Federation of Independent Business, small business job creation broke a 45-year record last month. “President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget proposal will include $100 million for a global women’s fund spearheaded by his daughter Ivanka Trump,” Catherine Lucey reports for The Associated Press. “The White House said the budget, expected to be released Monday, will include the funding for the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative. The administration last month launched the government-wide project, which she leads.” “One hundred eleven miles of new or replacement wall is either being built or is in progress on the southern border after Trump’s first two years in office,” Saagar Enjeti reports in The Daily Caller. “All told, the administration has secured funding for approximately 445 miles of the total 722 miles desired by the Trump administration, a Caller analysis finds.” First Lady Melania Trump “made her third official visit as first lady to the State Department on Thursday, passing out the International Women of Courage Awards,” Kate Bennett reports for CNN. “Courage is what divides those who only talk about change from those who actually act to change. Courage takes sacrifice, bravery and humility -- it is the ability to put others first,” the First Lady said. In the Miami Herald, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow writes that the Trump Administration’s W-GDP initiative will empower women across the globe. “As we observe International Women’s Day, Americans should make a bipartisan commitment to supporting W-GDP, which represents an enormous opportunity to spur growth and create stability by empowering women to use their untapped entrepreneurial talent and invest in their families, communities, and their countries.” First Lady Visits Microsoft to Discuss Online Safety for Kids First Lady Melania Trump visited Microsoft in Washington state yesterday to learn about the company’s work on accessibility and online safety for children, Paul Roberts reports in The Seattle Times. The software giant “was the second stop in a three-city tour to promote the first lady’s ‘Be Best’ initiative, which is calling attention to child well-being, online safety and anti-bullying efforts and opioid abuse.” The First Lady’s trip began yesterday morning with a visit to a Tulsa, Oklahoma, charter school and will conclude today with a town hall on the opioid epidemic in Las Vegas, Nevada. Click here to read more. “Border agents in Southeast Texas have apprehended more than 100,000 immigrants attempting to enter the United States illegally since the beginning of October,” Samuel Chamberlain reports in Fox News. “In a statement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said its agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector -- which includes the cities of Brownsville, McAllen and Corpus Christi -- were on pace to apprehend 240,000 illegal aliens for this fiscal year. That would be an increase of approximately 50 percent over the 162,260 migrants apprehended between October 2017 and October 2018.” “The White House is creating a new high-level task force on preventing veterans suicide which will include new community outreach grants aimed at former service members and expanded projects across a host of government agencies to coordinate research and prevention efforts,” Leo Shane III reports in the Military Times. “President Trump signed an executive order Monday that helps active-duty military and sea veterans transition into the Merchant Marine, which handles cargo and passenger shipping but can be called upon in wartime for sealift operations,” Tom Howell Jr. reports in The Washington Times. With this move, veterans will find economic security while America will have a steady supply of mariners at the ready in case conflict erupts. In The Wall Street Journal, Phil Gramm and Michael Solon write that President Trump’s tax cuts and deregulatory agenda have unleashed the American economy—something that simply didn’t happen under the previous administration. “Since 2017 private investment has returned to the levels that drove other postwar recoveries, and productivity and labor-force participation are rising.” “For too long, we have witnessed the rise of blatant anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate in the United States and around the world,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) write in The Hill. “It is time to send a clear, resounding message to the entire world that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate will not be tolerated, and it starts with us, here in the chamber of the House of Representatives. We urge all of our colleagues to support H.Res. 72, remove Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and reject anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate once and for all.” ‘Being Anti-Trump Means Never Having to Say You Are Sorry’ “All during the fight over a border wall, we were told by the media and progressives commentators that the border is practically locked down,” Rich Lowry writes in Politico Magazine. But alarming new numbers from the Department of Homeland Security say otherwise: “More than 76,000 migrants were apprehended crossing the southern border last month, the highest February in more than 10 years,” Lowry explains. “Being anti-Trump means never having to say you are sorry or you were wrong, so the latest evidence won’t make an impression on anyone who blithely dismissed the idea of border crisis. But it should . . . Every indication is that the situation is going to get worse.” Click here to read more. “Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday that young female migrants traveling north to the United States are raped with such regularity that Immigration and Customs Enforcement gives every girl age 10 and over a pregnancy test after arriving,” David Martosko reports in the Daily Mail. “Chief executives of major companies said at a White House forum on Wednesday that they are hiring more Americans without college degrees,” David Shepardson reports for Reuters. “The White House hosted CEOs of major corporations who joined a Trump administration advisory board on workforce issues, including from Apple Inc, IBM Corp, Lockheed Martin Corp, Siemens USA and Home Depot Inc, who are part of a 25-member board co-chaired by President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.” “Democrats seem hell-bent on impeaching Mr. Trump, and most of the media will be cheering them on,” The Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler’s (D-NY) subpoena swarm is meant “to turn the President’s exercise of his normal constitutional powers into impeachable offenses.” “Last Friday, President Trump unveiled his grand strategy for American prosperity: the 2019 Trade Policy Agenda. This forward-looking report from the US Trade Representative maps out America’s deliverance from the bad deals, weak guardrails and sluggish growth that have handicapped decades of international trade,” White House Director for Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro writes in the New York Post. “President Donald Trump made a wise choice in tapping Kentucky’s Kelly Craft as his new nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,” Scott Jennings writes in the Courier Journal. “Craft is more than capable of representing America on the world stage,” which will be her third diplomatic post—and second stint at the United Nations.