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Likewise, we are restoring our Nation’s manufacturing might, even though predictions were that this could never be done. After losing 60,000 factories under the previous two administrations, America has now gained 12,000 new factories under my Administration with medicare agent thousands upon thousands of plants and factories being planned or built. Everybody wants to be where the action is, and the United States of America is, indeed, where the action is. The unemployment rate for disabled Americans has reached an all-time low.

This includes two brilliant new Supreme Court Justices, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. My Administration has undertaken an unprecedented effort to secure the southern border of the United States. In the last 3 years, ICE has arrested over 5,000 wicked human traffickers — and I have signed 9 pieces of legislation to stamp out the menace of human trafficking, domestically and around the globe. In December 2018, California police detained an illegal alien with five prior arrests, including convictions for robbery and assault. But as required by California’s Sanctuary Law, local authorities released him. With unyielding commitment, we are curbing the opioid epidemic — drug overdose deaths declined for the first time in nearly 30 years.

"As a result of our unprecedented efforts, illegal crossings are down 75 percent since May - dropping 8 straight months in a row. And as the wall goes up, drug seizures rise, and border crossings go down." Amid harsh criticism of Trump’s immigration policies, the US president claimed that his "administration has undertaken an unprecedented effort to secure the southern border of the United States." In recent months, we have seen proud Iranians raise their voices against their oppressive rulers. The Iranian regime must abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons, stop spreading terror, death, and destruction, and start working for the good of its own people. Because of our powerful sanctions, the Iranian economy is doing very poorly.

We can help them make it very good in a short period of time, but perhaps they are too proud or too foolish to ask for that help. After graduating from college, their beautiful daughter Kayla became a humanitarian aid worker. After more than 500 horrifying days of captivity, Al-Baghdadi murdered young Kayla. My Administration is also strongly defending our national security and combating radical Islamic terrorism.

Tonight, I ask the Congress to support our students and back my plan to offer vocational and technical education in every single high school in America. My Administration is determined to give our citizens the opportunities they need regardless of age or background. Through our Pledge to American Workers, over 400 companies will also provide new jobs and education opportunities to almost 15 million Americans. From the pilgrims to our Founders, from the soldiers at Valley Forge to the marchers at Selma, and from President Lincoln to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans have always rejected limits on our children’s future.

As the world bears witness tonight, America is a land of heroes. This is the place where greatness is born, where destinies are forged, and where legends come to life. This is the home of Thomas Edison and Teddy Roosevelt, of many great Generals, including Washington, Pershing, Patton, and MacArthur. This is the home of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, the Wright Brothers, Neil Armstrong, and so many more. This is the country where children learn names like Wyatt Earp, Davy Crockett, and Annie Oakley. This is the place where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at the Alamo.