President Donald Trump delivered major news on Friday morning from the White House on the economy and where things are headed with tariffs that he’s placed on several nations.
During remarks in the Oval Office, the president praised the latest jobs report, forecasted the future economic outlook amid a tariff war, and with more federal layoffs looming.
One massive data point came when Trump noted that in the February jobs report, native born workers jumped by 284,000 and foreign-born workers lost 87,000 jobs. Trump highlighted the importance of more Americans getting jobs in the country.
“For the first time in fifteen months, the job gains for native-born Americans exceeded the job gains for migrant and foreign workers. Employment for native-born workers went up by 284K while foreign-born workers went down by 87K,” Trump said.
“Look, our country has been ripped off by everybody, and that stops now… Canada, Mexico, the EU, and India are terrible abusers of our country,” he added.
“Globalists won’t love this because this brings jobs back to America… I think the United States is going to do records business. We’ll bring back a lot of those 90,000 factories that have been lost over the last number of years,” he said.
“Under the final two years of Biden, one in every four jobs created in America was a government job… But under the first full month of President Trump, an incredible 93% of all job gains were in the private sector,” Trump continued.
“During the last year, the Biden administration saw a loss of more than 110K manufacturing jobs or 9K manufacturing jobs every single month — During the first full month in office, we’ve not only stopped the manufacturing collapse, but we’ve begun to rapidly reverse it and get major gains,” he declared.
NEC Director Kevin Hassett: “A lot of people said that if you deported illegals, then employment would go down… And if you look, 280,000 American-born folks were hired, manufacturing jobs are going up… I suspect that this is going to be a glimpse of the Golden Age to come.”
It is astounding what words of strength from an American president can do to fix many issues.
After four years of what many believe was the weakest border policy in United States history, which saw Southern border crossings get to crisis levels, President Donald Trumphas changed everything.
Customs and Border Protection data shows that border crossings have fallen a whopping 90 percent from the same period one year prior, with a mere 359 illegal migrants being processed each day, the New York Post reported.
“That puts the US on track to have the lowest monthly border crossings in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, the number of illegal migrants coming into the US could hit a level not seen since 1968, nearly 60 years ago,” the report said.
And Trump has no plans to slow down.
The president has signed another executive order that is an “amendment to duties to address the flow of illicit drugs across our southern border.”
Center for Immigration Studies executive director Mark Krikorian told The Post that the border crossings are the lowest that the United States has seen “in almost a lifetime.”
“If you kind of break down the numbers and divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously,” the executive director said.
The data showed that through February 11, only 3,953 illegal migrants had been encountered at the southern border, which, if those numbers continue, would bring the total in the month to around 10,000, a number that has never been achieved since the CBP began tracking this data in 1999.
Not coincidentally, the closest that number ever got to 10,000 was in April 2017, during the first Trump presidency, when monthly crossings were just over 11,000, the report said.
According to a Border Patrol source, migrants have sensed the shift in presidents.