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The
White House • June 19, 2018
The Day
Ahead
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President Donald J.
Trump will address the National Federation of Independent
Businesses' 75th Anniversary Celebration. Watch
live at 12:25 p.m. ET.
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Vice President Mike
Pence will speak to workers at Nucor Steel Auburn, Inc. in
Upstate New York. Watch
live at 2:20 p.m. ET.
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President Trump will
welcome Their Majesties King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of
Spain to the White House for an expanded bilateral meeting.
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America's
immigration loopholes, by the numbers
Legal
loopholes have hamstrung immigration enforcement and
contributed to the crisis at our border. The number of
unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at U.S. ports of entry
increased by a staggering 636 percent from April 2017
to April 2018. In the last three months, illegal immigration on
the southern border exceeded 50,000 people per month—"multiples
over each month last year," Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen said yesterday.
At
the same time, loopholes in our asylum laws have led
to a significant spike in asylum claims. Because current law
sets an easily met standard for "credible fear,"
refugees fleeing actual persecution and violence are bogged
down in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services backlog,
which has swelled more than 1900 percent since the end of the
2012 fiscal year.
Any
real, lasting solution will require Congress to close
these loopholes. Smugglers and human traffickers understand and
have exploited these glaring weak points in our immigration
system. "Until these loopholes are closed by Congress, it
is not possible, as a matter of law, to detain and remove whole
family units who arrive illegally in the United States,"
Secretary Nielsen said.
'Reclaiming
America's proud destiny' in the heavens
"When
it comes to space, too often, for too many years, our
dreams of exploration and discovery were really squandered by
politics and bureaucracy," President Trump said yesterday
as he announced his Administration's third Space Policy
Directive. "We don't want China and Russia and other
countries leading us. We've always led—we've gone way far
afield for decades now."
As
space becomes increasingly contested, the demand for
the U.S. Department of Defense to focus on protecting American
space assets and interests also increases. At the same time,
the rapid commercialization of space requires a traffic
management framework that protects U.S. interests and considers
the private sector's needs.
The
new directive builds on President Trump's efforts to
reinstate the American leadership role in space. Last June, the
President revived the National Space Council for the first time
in 24 years. "This is a giant step toward inspiring future
generations and toward reclaiming America's proud destiny in
space," President Trump says.
Photo of
the Day
Official
White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian
President
Trump and Vice President Pence participate in a meeting of the
National Space Council | June 18, 2018
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