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Why President Trump’s Immigration Speech is a Game-Changer “Even before the president did a microphone check for his immigration and border security speech in the White House Rose Garden Thursday afternoon, his critics were saying they hated his plan,” James Carafano writes in Fox News. “Good. That means he must be more right than wrong.” President Trump outlined his proposal for reforming America’s broken immigration system yesterday, transforming “the legal system first to one bringing in workers based on merit,” Carafano writes. “Today almost 90 percent of legal immigrants are extended family members, visa lottery winners and status adjustments. About 10 percent is based on merit. Let’s change that.” Click here to read more. “Attorney General William Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. If the Justice Department had done this two years ago, the country would be in a much better place,” Kimberly Strassel writes in The Wall Street Journal. “The esteemed duo can give the public confidence that Justice and FBI actions are getting a fair and thorough look.” “Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are about to sell American workers, and the country, down the drain. Now that the trade talks with China have turned testy, they are running away from their earlier support . . . If we are to win this all-important trade dispute with our Asian rival and level the playing field, the entire country – including Democrats – need to stand together,” Liz Peek writes in Fox News. “As we confront Beijing, nothing could be more important than a unified front.” “Consumer sentiment rocketed to its highest level in 15 years in early May as Americans grew more upbeat on the health of the economy and its path in 2019, according to data released Friday,” Thomas Franck reports for CNBC. “Consumers viewed prospects for the overall economy much more favorably, with the economic outlook for the near and longer term reaching their highest levels since 2004,” economist Richard Curtin says. “Ivanka Trump is on a roll in her campaign to win pledges from American companies to train workers for well-paying jobs,” Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. “In her latest stop this week...she won a promise to help train 1 million new salesmen and women. It came during a visit to Salesforce, the cloud-based customer management system, during which CEO Marc Benioff doubled his plan to provide training for 500,000.” President Trump to Unveil Immigration Plan Calling for New Merit-Based Points System “President Trump Thursday will unveil a detailed new vision for legislation overhauling the U.S. legal immigration system, rewarding skills and education as part of a new points system,” Steven Nelson reports for the Washington Examiner. “Under the Trump plan, the share of legal immigrants permitted entry based on job skills would rise from 12% to 57%. Family bonds as a justification for legal entry would fall from 66% to 33%. Asylum and diversity admissions would fall from 22% to 10%.” Click here to read more. On the heels of numerous claims of political bias within some of America’s most powerful tech companies, “the White House has launched an online form asking people to share their experiences if they think political partisanship has led them to be silenced by social media sites,” Barbara Ortutay reports for The Associated Press. “The form does not ask respondents their political affiliation.” Share your story: The Trump Administration is fighting for free speech online. A major U.S. company announced this morning that it is “joining a White House initiative to provide training for new skills to U.S. workers,” Reuters reports. Salesforce.com Inc, “which makes Internet-based software used by the sales and marketing departments of businesses, said it would provide online training for . . . workers to get jobs that involve Salesforce’s software systems.” That commitment, which Salesforce upped to 1,000,000 new job training opportunities at its announcement this morning, comes as part of the White House’s “Pledge to America’s Workers,” spearheaded by Ivanka Trump.   “The U.S. Border Patrol's busiest region on the southern border now expects to spend more than $20 million on consumable items and services for asylum-seekers, up from the $12.5 million it had budgeted for the year due to a continued surge of families illegally crossing into the United States, according to federal data obtained by the Washington Examiner,” Anna Giaritelli writes. “Nearly 250,000 people who illegally crossed into the U.S. as part of a ‘family unit’ have been taken into custody across the southern border since October.” The Real Constitutional Crisis is the Democrats' Disregard for Justice “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is right: We are in the midst of a ‘constitutional crisis.’ It has nothing to do with President Donald Trump’s jousting with Congress over subpoenas, however; the crisis is fully one of the Democrats’ making as they — unfortunately aided by special counsel Robert Mueller — continue to disregard the pillars of justice and fairness that have underpinned America since its founding,” CNN contributor Scott Jennings writes in the Courier-Journal. “It is hard to take Democrats seriously about Trump defying the norms of the presidency when they are actively assaulting our justice system, hypocritically refusing to accept election results (see: Georgia), trying to eliminate the Electoral College and pack the Supreme Court.” Click here to read more. “Those who suggest Trump started this trade war with China have it backward. Beijing has been waging economic warfare on the United States for years — stealing our intellectual property, forcing our companies to transfer technology as a price of doing business in China and subsidizing state-owned enterprises to prevent U.S. businesses from competing,” Marc Thiessen writes in The Washington Post. “President Donald Trump showcased his ‘America First energy policy’ on Tuesday during a trip to Louisiana designed to highlight his administration’s efforts to increase liquefied natural gas exports and boost the country’s energy infrastructure,” The Associated Pressreports. “Under my administration we have ended the war on America energy and ended the economic assault on our wonderful energy workers,” the President said. “The outlook remained rosy among the nation's small business owners in April, with the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increasing 1.7 points to 103.5,” Katherine Feser reports for the Houston Chronicle. “Job creation plans gained, hiring remained strong and expectations for sales, business conditions and credit conditions all improved.” “Every White House has an obligation to inform the American people. While press briefings are one way, this White House provides far greater access in the most important way. According to the White House Transition Project, in his first two years in office, President Donald Trump had nearly 600 on-the-record media interactions . . . far more than his last two predecessors,” Raj Shah writes in USA Today. Why Free Traders and All Americans Should Back Trump on China Policy “If ever there were a right time to impose punitive tariffs, it is now, and it is against China,” economic expert Stephen Moore writes in The Hill. “This is the right moment to shut down China’s abusive trade practices forever.” Here is the essential fact you don’t hear on the nightly news: “The average tariff that we imposed on China when Trump entered the White House was about 4 percent. China’s tariffs on us were about 10 percent,” Moore explains. “There is not one demand that Trump is making of China’s President Xi that is unreasonable.” Click here to read more. “NASA is planning on sending the first woman ever and the first man in nearly five decades to the moon by 2024, thanks to an additional increase to the agency's budget by President Trump,” Amanda Jackson and Chris Boyette report for CNN. “Under my Administration, we are restoring [NASA] to greatness,” the President tweeted. “Next time you hear that the costs of the trade war are simply being borne by Americans, be suspicious. In their zeal to make Trump look completely wrong, on tariffs or other issues, too many commentators pick and choose their arguments,” economist Tyler Cowen writes in Bloomberg. “Trump’s threats are exerting some very real pressure” on China, Cowen says. “Immigration crime, virtually all involving illegal male, Hispanic immigrants, was the top offense in federal courts last year, according to the United States Sentencing Commission,” Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. All told, immigration crimes accounted for more than one-third of all sentencing cases. These crimes include trafficking U.S. passports, smuggling, transporting, and unlawfully entering the United States. “There is a clear disconnect between the rhetoric of the Democrats and the gains being felt in the Trump economy because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). The U.S. jobless rate is at a 50-year low, but according to the left, the current strong economic outlook is purely coincidental,” tax expert Alex Hendrie writes in Fox Business. “Americans at every income level and in every Congressional district are seeing tax reduction, a fact that even left-of-center think tanks and the New York Times have admitted.”