Ivanka Trump, Wilbur Ross: President Redoubles Efforts to Ensure Good Jobs for All “On Tuesday, we were in Charlotte discussing workforce development with local leaders and executives as well as the new opportunities that this economy has brought to the state and region,” Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross write in the Salisbury Post. “With a record 48 states registering unemployment rates below 5%, President Trump’s economic agenda is paying off.” That said, many of the new jobs American companies are creating require highly skilled workers. “Today’s labor market challenges combined with rapid technological change call for a clear national workforce strategy,” Ms. Trump and Secretary Ross write. As of today, the President’s efforts have resulted in more than 250 companies pledging more than 9 million new opportunities to train and reskill American workers and students. Click here to read more.

In Fox News, former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan writes that President Trump made the right call in ordering the deportation of illegal immigrants—and points out that Democrats were noticeably silent when the Obama Administration did the same in 2015. “The same lawmakers who are quick to criticize ICE officers now have done nothing to address the humanitarian and national security crisis on our border. They have not offered up one idea, one fix, or one dollar of the supplemental budget request that President Trump has made for border security.”

“The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement looms over the congressional agenda this summer. In recent weeks, officials have rolled up their sleeves and begun to prepare the ground for a positive vote on this landmark trade agreement,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President Myron Brilliant writes in CNBC. “Each day that passes without approving USMCA is a day that [its] benefits are deferred.”

The Democrat mayor of a Texas town near the U.S.–Mexico border slammed Washington’s neglect of the border crisis, “saying ‘we are sick and tired of the deaf ears’ for failing to protect towns like his from illegal immigration,” Lukas Mikelionis reports for Fox News. Bruno Lozano, mayor of Del Rio, Texas, said that illegal immigration has overrun his town and urged members of Congress to visit these border towns and witness the situation firsthand.

“Thanks to President Trump’s economic policies, Pennsylvania’s unemployment recently hit an all-time low of 3.9 percent, while the state’s job count hit a record 6.2 million,” Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) writes in the Observer-Reporter. “But it’s his rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), known as the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), that promises to be an even greater boon for our state economy and the nation.”