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Demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. the raise act prevents immigrants from collecting welfare and protects u.s. workers from being displaced. that's a very big thing. they're not going to come in and immediately go and 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 by reducing unskilled immigration. this legislation will not only restore our competitive edge in the 21st century but the bonds of trust between america and its citizens. this legislation demo...

Act will help ensure that new comers to our wonderful country will be assimilated and will succeed and achieve the american dream. i'd like now to invite senator cotton and purdue to say a few words. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. president, very excited to be here to be introducing the new version of the raise act. our legal immigration system should accomplish two main goals. it should help american workers get a decent pay raise and have a higher standard of living and promote economic growth and make america more competitive in the world. our current system simply doesn't do that. ...

Demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. the raise events prevent new immigrants from collecting welfare and protects u.s. workers from being displaced. that's a very big thing. they are not going to come in and immediately go and collect welfare. that doesn't happen under the raise act. they can't do that. the green card reforms will give american workers a pay raise by reducing unskilled immigrant. this legislation will not only restore a competitive edge in the 21st century put restore trust between america and its citizens. this demonstrates our compassion for struggling ame...

They make iphones for apple and others. we have a lot of things happening that are really great, but again, today, the stock market hit the highest level that it has ever been, and our country is doing very well. i went to think of all. tom and david are going to be outside, they're going to speak to you at length about what we are going to do with respect to this aspect of immigration, i think it's going to be very, very important. the biggest change in 50 years. thank you all very much. >> jon: without answering questions from the assembled press, president trump and the roosevelt room along...

>> entirely separately, the president was joined this morning by senators david perdue and tom cotton for the introduction of the raise act. >> this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. >> sponsors of the raise act say it will create more competition, create more jobs and raise ways wages. they also signal a new direction for the white house under the new chief of staff john kelly. that things are getting done here at the white house under new l...