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The act protects american workers from being displaced. that's a very big thing. they're not going to come in and immediately collect welfare, that doesn't happen under the raise act, they can't do that. crucially, the green card reforms in the raise act will give american workers a pay raise. this legislation will not only restore the competition, but it restore faith of the citizens. finally, the reforms in the raise act will help ensure that newcomers to our wonderful country will be assimilated,

The raise act will change all of that by reorienting our green card system towards people who can speak english, who have high degrees of educational attainment, will have a job offer that pays more and a typical job will create a new business and our outstanding in their field around the world. i'm excited and i look forward to working with senator perdue and president trump through the congress and make this very fundamental sweeping change for the first time in over 50 years to our immigration system. thank you. >> thank you, tom, thank you mr. president. good afternoon everyone. first of a...

Go to the roosevelt room. the president is there. represent the most comprehensive reform to our immigration system in half a century. i want to thank senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremendous work in putting together this historic and very vital proposal. as a candidate, i campaigned on creating a merit based immigration system that protects u.s. workers and taxpayers and that is why we're here today, merit based. the raise act, the raise act will reduce poverty and increase wages and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars. it will do this by changing the way the unit...

Will succeed, and will achieve the american dream. i would now like to invent a senator cotton and senator perdue to say words, thank you, thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president. very excited to be here with a senator perdue and president trump to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our system should accomplish two goals. one, it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living, and two, it should help promote economic growth, make it more competitive. our current system simply doesn't do that. it's over a half-century old. it is a...

Together, 51% are ingesting at least one federal health care. what we are doing with our current system, we are bringing in a large number of poor people who are unskilled and they are coming into our welfare state, and the american taxpayer is immediately supporting them. so, this raise act, president trump's proposal, is to take the burden off the taxpayer and also take some of that competitive burden off of the american workers who are trying to get these lower end jobs, blue-collar jobs, and have them compete on equal terms in order to get those jobs and not see wages depressed. as you kno...