Speech #CREC-2017-04-27-pt1-PgH2927_t1

The S&P is up 11 percent, the NASDAQ is up more than 15 percent, and the Dow is up 13 percent. 317,000 more Americans are working today than on the day the President took the oath of office, unemployment has dropped three- tenths of a point, and the labor participation rate has started to inch upward once again. It is not yet ``morning again in America,'' but the first faint shades of light are appearing on our economic horizon. The second great mandate was to secure the borders after many years, when millions of illegal immigrants made a mockery of our Nation's sovereignty and our rule of law. Wages for working Americans stagnated, jobs dried up, and social services have strained as a result. Well, finally, we have a President who takes the Nation's security and the sovereignty of our borders seriously. Renewed enforcement has, by all accounts, boosted morale of our immigration agencies dramatically, and criminal aliens are finally being deported--already showing a 32 percent increase in deportations compared to the last administration. Because of this new resoluteness, illegal border crossings have plunged by some 60 percent. Now, healthcare reform is the third of the mandates. That requires congressional action, and here is where Congress has let him down.