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Trump Touts “Big League Jobs” in Meeting with Manufacturing Industry Leaders
Post Views: 3,125By Neil A. Carousso
At The White House on Thursday morning, President Donald J. Trump met with two dozen manufacturing leaders including the heads of Dell, Ford, General Electric, Emerson Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Carrier and Lockheed Martin discussing action plans to create and bring-back millions of American jobs and implement his pro-business policies that will create better working environments, higher wages and economic stability.
Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross along with Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner and his wife, Mr. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump also attended the “listening session.”
“Bringing manufacturing and creating high wage jobs was one of our campaign themes,” President Trump said, noting that 70,000 factories had closed since President George W Bush’s presidency.
“I always thought it had to be a typo, said Trump, continuing, “Everything is going to be based on bringing our jobs back.”
Trade is also a major topic on the forefront of the Trump agenda in terms of renegotiation. The President said the U.S. has $70 billion in trade deficits.“I said to my people to find a country where we actually do well. So far we haven’t found a country,” remarked President Trump.
The White House also hosted “small working group sessions to discuss the need to boost job creation in America.”
We hosted some of the country’s largest manufacturers for small working group sessions to discuss the need to boost job creation in America. pic.twitter.com/t1xHFwCXir
— Vice President Mike Pence Archived (@VP45) February 23, 2017
Manufacturing, as a percentage of private sector jobs, has decreased 17.1% in the last 40 years as the result of automation and outsourcing in response to high taxes and increased regulations and government red tape.A reminder of the “Trump Effect:” Roughly $62.7 billion has been invested in the U.S. with about 1,816,700 American jobs created and saved since President Donald J. Trump was elected in November.
Here is an updated list of the “big league jobs” announced since Mr. Trump’s election that we’ve been tracking since November 8, 2016:
1. Carrier: Keeping 1,100 American jobs instead of sending to Mexico
2. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: Investing $50 billion to create 50,000 American jobs
3. Sprint: Bringing back 5,000 jobs to the U.S. that were sent overseas
4. OneWeb (new company): Creating 3,000 jobs in the U.S. (associated with Son’s guarantee)
5. Ford: Cancels $1.6 billion plant in Mexico, saving 3,500 American jobs. Creating new innovative center as an expansion of its Flat Rock, MI plant by investing $700 million in the U.S. and creating 700 American jobs
6. Qualcomm and Apple will invest in SoftBank’s new technology fund, SoftBank Vision Fund that is being used to create 50,000 American jobs.
7. Fiat Chrysler announces it would spend $1 billion on U.S. manufacturing, including modernizing plants in Michigan and Ohio, adding 2,000 new American jobs.
8.. Toyota will spend $10 billion in U.S. capital investments and will expand its U.S. plants over the next five years.
9. Alibaba Chief Executive Jack Ma met with Trump to discuss the creation of 1 million American jobs, specifically focusing on small business growth.
10. Amazon will create 100,000 jobs in the first year and a half of the Trump Presidency.
11. Wal-Mart will create 10,000 jobs in the U.S. this year.
12. General Motors will invest $1 billion in its U.S. factories this year, moving some parts of production from Mexico to the United States that was previously handled by a supplier.
13. Toyota will add 400 American jobs to build more SUVs at an Indiana assembly plant.
14. Amgen will add 1,600 jobs.
15. Intel will invest $7 billion in innovation in an Arizona factory, creating 3,000 specialist positions and 10,000 support jobs.
16. Delta announces it will hire 25,000 jobs over the next 5 years.
17. Lockheed Martin will create 1,800 new jobs.Attendees at The White House Hosted Manufacturing Sessions:
President Trump noted that the CEOs in the room represented $1 trillion in sales and employed 2 million people and a lot of the companies in the room, like Lockheed Martin which produces fighter jets, produced products for the U.S. Military.
Vice President Mike Pence
Secretary Steven Mnuchin
Secretary Wilbur Ross
Secretary Elaine Chao
Administrator Linda Mcmahon
Director Mick Mulvaney
Gary Cohn
Stephen Miller
Jared Kushner
Ivanka Trump
Chris Liddell
George Sifakis
Reed Cordish
Andrew Bremberg
Gary Cohn
Joshua Pitcock
Ray Washburne
Stephen Munisteri
Mark Calabria
Henry Gindt
Shahira Knight
DJ GribbinMichael Dell, Dell Technologies
Andrew Liveris, Dow Chemical Company
Mark Sutton, International Paper
Gregory Hayes, United Technologies
Alex Gorsky, Johnson & Johnson
Keith Leimbach, LiveOps
Wendell Weeks, Corning
Jeff Fettig, Whirlpool
David Farr, Emerson Electric
James Kamsickas, Dana, Inc.
John Ferriola, Nucor Corporation
Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company
Jeffrey Immelt, GE
Denise Morrison, Campbell Soup Company
Kenneth Frazier, Merck & Co., Inc
Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin Corp
Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar
Inge Thulin, 3M
Mario Longhi, U.S. Steel
Don Althoff, Veresen, Inc.
Lee Styslinger, Altec, Inc.
Juan Luciano, ADM
Phebe Novakovik, General Dynamics
William Bill Brown, Harris CorporationFeatured Image Courtesy: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
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Enforcing Immigration Laws: DHS Order to Prioritize Deportation of Criminal Illegal Aliens, End to “Catch-and-Release”
Post Views: 1,966By Neil A. Carousso
Department of Homeland Security Secretary General John Kelly moved to implement President Donald J. Trump’s immigration policies, namely prioritizing criminal illegal immigrants, hiring more immigration officers, officially ending the “catch-and-release” policies, and beginning to execute the president’s plans to build a wall on U.S. southern border.
“It is in the national interest of the United States to prevent criminals and criminal organizations from destabilizing border security,” wrote Kelly in one of two memos released by DHS on Tuesday.
The agencies “going back to our traditional roots” on enforcement said a Homeland Security official.
The key points in the DHS memo include:
-Prioritizing criminal illegal immigrants and others for deportation, including those convicted or charged with “any criminal offense,” or who have “abused” any public welfare program
-Expanding expedited removal provisions to aliens who have not been admitted or paroled into the U.S. This excludes unaccompanied minors, those who intend to apply for asylum or have a fear of persecution or torture in their home countries.
-Expanding the 287(g) program, which allows participating local officers to act as immigration agents – and had been rolled back under the Obama administration
-Starting the planning, design and construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall with mostly American materials being made to construct the wall
-Identifying and quantifying indirect and direct sources of aid to Mexico during each of the last five fiscal years
-“Hiring 10,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and officers”
-Hiring 5,000 Border Patrol agents
-Commissioning a comprehensive study of border security (air, land and maritime) to “identify vulnerabilities and provide recommendations to enhance border security.” The study will include the “availability of federal and state resources to develop and implement an effective border security strategy that will achieve complete operational control of the border.”
-Ending “catch-and-release” policies (ended in 2006 under President George W. Bush, but was continued under President Barack Obama) under which illegal immigrants subject to deportation potentially are allowed to “abscond” and fail to appear at removal hearings
-“Putting into place accountability measures to protect alien children from exploitation and prevent abuses of immigration laws. The smuggling or trafficking of alien children into the United States puts those children at grave risk of violence and sexual exploitation. CBP and ICE will ensure the proper enforcement of our immigration laws against those who facilitate such smuggling or trafficking.”
“DREAMers” in DACA and White House Intentions:
So-called DREAMers are not affected by the memos. DREAMers are defined in President Barack Obama’s June 2012 policy “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” (DACA) as undocumented immigrants to the United States who entered the country as minors. Children, under DACA, have been granted a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility.
“The message from this White House and from the DHS is those people who are in this country and pose a threat to our public safety or have committed a crime will be the first to go and we will aggressively be making sure that that occurs. That is what the priority is,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at his Tuesday press briefing, making it clear that the DHS memos and President Trump policies are not of mass deportations.
“Everybody who is here illegally is subject to removal at any time,” Spicer said. “That is consistent with every country, not just ours. If you’re in this country in an illegal manner, then obviously there’s a provision that could ensure that you be removed.
Illegal Immigration Statistics:
In fiscal years 2010-2014, 121 aliens were released from custody and later charged with a homicide-related offense. In fiscal year 2015, 15,715 offenders were convicted of illegal reentry, accounting for 82 percent of immigration offenders sentenced. Under 300 jurisdictions in the United States, illegal immigrants are granted sanctuary in which cities and states disobey federal immigration law.
An overwhelming number of voters say local authorities should be required to comply with federal immigration law. A Harvard-Harris Poll survey provided exclusively to The Hill found that 80 percent of voters are against sanctuary cities.
A Pew Research Center report released earlier this month, reveals that an estimated 2.5 million immigrants in the country illegally live in the metropolitan areas of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago – all cities that have vowed to fight President Trump’s enforcement of immigration law.
A recent U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operation removed criminal illegal immigrant fugitives in New York, arresting criminals with an array of sexual assault, rape, drugs, DUI, robbery, larceny and other criminal offenses including reentry upon final orders of removal and an MS-13 gang member.
In New York City, an illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member was allowed to be released under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “sanctuary city” policy. There was a federal petition to hold him for deportation, according to officials. Estivan Rafael Marques Velasquez was set free from Rikers Island on February 16 after serving time for disorderly conduct. ICE officials requested last May that the gang member be turned over to immigration officials when he finished serving his sentence. An immigration judge ordered his removal in November 2015.
“This man is by his own admission a member of a violent street gang and he was released back into the community,” said Thomas Decker, field office director for the New York Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit. “Honoring a detainer request is not about politics, it is about keeping New York citizens safe.”
ICE sent in their own agents to find Velasquez the same day in Queens.
In another recent case, a 19-year-old murder suspect in Denver is in jail with another man for the killing of 32-year-old Tim Cruz on February 7. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed a detainer on the murder suspect after being arrested by Denver police in October 2016 for car theft and other charges. ICE wanted to be notified of any pending release because he was suspected of being in the U.S. illegally from Mexico.
“Somebody’s gonna be inconvenienced, said “angel mom” Laura Wilkerson on a Fox News Channel’s special immigration townhall on”First 100 Days,” hosted by Martha MacCallum on Tuesday night. “Y’know, without the immigration laws being enforced, this country has run amok. And any way that he does it, there’s gonna be an inconvenience to people. But for myself, if you’re not burying your child in the ground and turning around and walking away, it’s not an inconvenience you can’t deal with.”
Wilkerson’s son Joshua was murdered by an illegal immigrant, a “DREAMer,” in November 2010.
The 680 illegal immigrants detained in recent ICE sweeps represent just .07 percent of the 950,062 with deportation orders as of May 21, 2016, according to statistics provided to Congress. There are an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants with criminal records in addition to their illegal status. The Trump Administration is making the criminal illegal aliens a priority for swift removal in order to protect the United States from preventable crime.
The number of southwest border patrol agents are down nearly 1,600 from an all-time peak of 18,611 in the fiscal year of 2013.
The United States gave $175 million in aid to Mexico from 2014-2016 with 45 percent of the aid going to “democracy, human rights and governance” and 9 percent of Mexican aid towards “peace and security.” President Trump has promised to have Mexico pay for the border wall by using aid funds, reducing the trade deficit between the two countries or other diplomatic measures. The wall is addressed in the DHS memo.
Immigration and Refugee Suspension from Terror-Riddled Nations:
The Homeland Security memos come after President Trump’s January 27th executive order that suspended immigration for 90 days and refugees for 120 days from six terror nations – Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Yemen and Libya – and an indefinite suspension on immigration and refugees coming from war-torn Syria with the intent to build safe zones in Syria for victims. A national halt on the order was placed by U.S. District Judge James Robart a week later. Robart’s stay was upheld by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals with two judges appointed by Democrat presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter. The courts have not ruled on the executive order’s Constitutionality.
President Trump has said as the Chief Executive, he has the authority to suspend immigration if he has reason to believe that the nation’s national security is in jeopardy.
8 U.S. Code § 1182 on “Inadmissible aliens” reads in part:
“Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.” – Abridged 8 U.S. Code § 1182
The president is also granted authority by the U.S. Constitution to protect the country from “domestic violence.”
“The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.” – Article IV, Section 4 of The Constitution of the United States of America
President Trump is expected to rescind his original immigration suspension executive order that is currently tied up in the courts and release a revised executive order later this week or next week that will suspend immigration and refugees from terror-riddled nations that do not communicate about travelers to the United States government. Communication about travelers between countries is customary so that nations can prepare for any potential terrorist threats. The new order is likely to have an exemption for green card holders and a revision of the indefinite nature of the Syrian immigration and refugee program suspensions.
The temporary immigration suspension is intended to provide the Chief Executive and his national security team, led by newly appointed National Security Director General H.R. McMaster and Defense Secretary General James Mattis, time to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective “extreme vetting” policy. President Trump signed a memorandum on January 28th that mandates that his top national security advisors develop a plan within 30-days, by Monday, February 27, to defeat ISIS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXejrrBipOY&t=25s
Featured Image Courtesy: CBS News
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“The Real Deal with Neil:” Accomplishing “Peace through Strength” as the Threat of Terror Rises
Post Views: 1,737In “The Real Deal with Neil” segment on “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” Neil tackles military unpreparedness and a need to accomplish “peace through strength,” President Donald Trump’s ode to President Ronald Reagan, including ensuring NATO allies pay their fair share. Watch the segment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84xzgyUwmsE
“The Real Deal with Neil” is the final segment on the weekly live streaming program where Neil picks a topic and expounds upon it with insight and well-informed, bold analysis in a straight-forward, “tell it the way it is” manner.
“The Neil A. Carousso Show” airs live on Sundays at 12 Noon ET/9 AM PT on YouTube and NeilACarousso.com.
Featured Image Courtesy: NASA – F/A-18 Mission Support Aircraft.
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Despite President Trump’s Uphill Battles, There is “So Much Winning”
Post Views: 1,577In the “Carousso’s Comments” monologue on “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” Neil discusses several of President Donald J. Trump’s uphill battles in the first month of the new administration while still moving to accomplish his “America First” agenda, winning for the American people. Watch the segment below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0tr3MY8pU
Neil’s Show Notes for “Carousso’s Comments” that Aired Sunday, February 19, 2017 on “The Neil A. Carousso Show:”
CAROUSSO’S COMMENTS (MONOLOGUE)
- DESPITE PRESIDENT TRUMP’S UPHILL BATTLE, THERE IS A LOT OF WINNING
BATTLES:
- MEDIA (96% VOTED FOR HRC – CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY)
- SOT: REACTION AFTER THURSDAY’S TRUMP NEWS CONFERENCE
- MISREPRESENTING EXEC. ORDER AS “RELIGIOUS TEST” AND MUSLIM BAN, SHOCK ON ELECTION NIGHT, “DANGEROUS,” “WILL WE BE OKAY?”
- SOT: TRUMP ON FAKE NEWS IN FLORIDA YESTERDAY
- FULL SCREEN ON FAKE NEWS (Doesn’t include primary coverage of Trump – women, we can’t cover him fairly)
- ILLEGAL CLASSIFIED LEAKS – PRESUMABLY FROM BUREAUCRATS LEFTOVER AFTER OBAMA ADMIN.
- FULL SCREEN ON CLASSIFIED LEAKS
- FLYNN OUSTER – HRC CHINESE AMBASSADOR, $12 M FROM MOROCCAN KING, CONDITION TO ATTEND CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE EVENT, DEALS WITH MOROCCO AS SEC. OF STATE
- DEMOCRATS OBSTRUCTION FOR CABINET, WASHINGTON GRIDLOCK, PHONY OUTRAGE
- Eased regulatory burden on ObamaCare
- Took steps to review and undo the burdensome Dodd-Frank regulations,
- Eased financial regulations, controlling regulatory costs
- Comprehensive review of Fiduciary Rule
- Met with labor unions
- Business leaders – market is at all-time highs
- Order a wall along the Mexican border and actually start enforcing existing laws against illegal immigration? Check.
- Revoke federal funding for so-called sanctuary cities that offer illegal immigrants charged with crimes refuge from deportation? Check.
- Squelch for good the job-killing, secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership? Check.
- Ask the State Department and the Army Corps of Engineers for quick approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines that reduce dependency on foreign oil? Check and check.
- Pressure on the swamp, Freeze the metastasizing tumor of the federal bureaucracy, lobbying ban and its death-dealing regulatory tendrils? Check, check and check.
- Reinstating President Reagan’s “Mexico City policy”: no more U.S. aid to international health organizations that perform or promote abortions
- Met with Japan PM Shinzo Abe – thanked Trump for F-35 cost reduction
- Saving taxpayer dollars on plane, not taking a salary
- Met with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. Disagree but will join forces.
- Strengthened relations with Israel SOT WITH NETANYAHU
- EPA REGULATORY ROLLBACK FOR COAL MINERS – ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
- SUPPORT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, MILITARY AND A RETURN TO LAW AND ORDER
- ENFORCING IMMIGRATION LAWS AND GETTING CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS OUT PLUS TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORG AND DRUG TRAFFICKING
- BEGINNING PLANS TO STRENGTHEN CYBER SECURITY AND MILITARY TO DEFEAT ISIS
- SECURING THE NATION ORDER, HELD UP IN COURTS…NEW ORDER EXPECTED THIS WEEK
- CONSERVATIVE JUSTICE – NEIL GORSUCH (TOP VOTING ITEM)
CHALLENGES:
FULL SCREEN TRUMP CONTRACT
- 200 DAY PLAN
- OBAMACARE
- TAX REFORM
- WALL – EXTREME VETTING
“The Neil A. Carousso Show” airs live on Sundays at 12 Noon ET/9 AM PT on YouTube and NeilACarousso.com.
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Supporting Our Veterans: U.S. Army Combat Vet Shares His Emotional Story of Service
Post Views: 2,179By Neil A. Carousso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hx5tv5uyYE
Jeffrey McQueen is currently the director of veterans services at Veterans Health Alliance of Long Island. He served the United States in the U.S Army 82nd Airborne Division from 1982-1988, seeing combat at age 19.
“I found myself at the turning point, at a crossroads about making a decision between life and death and I chose life,” McQueen told this reporter on Thursday’s episode 10 of “The Neil A. Carousso Show Podcast” after describing his substance abuse and other personal issues after serving the United States in Grenada. “As a result of it, I’m in this position today where I allow my particular pain to become stepping stones to other individuals growth to wellness.”
Mr. McQueen continues to serve the country and his community through supporting his fellow veterans who suffer from PTSD, homelessness and other medical conditions and personal issues upon returning from service.
“If the community is engaging and getting involved and looking at what’s going on around them…if you see something, say something,” McQueen said referencing the New York City Police Department slogan, continuing, “If you see a veteran that is in dire need of support and not getting the support that they need regardless of discharge status veteran then you should be reaching out to find out what you could do to be able to aid them and know that there are those of us out here that are willing to engage and support and care for these veterans.”
Veterans Health Alliance encourages and needs community support in order to accomplish their goals of “promoting the health and well-being of Long Island veterans and their families through advocacy and a broad array of services,” all discussed on last week’s podcast with Mr. McQueen.
One way people can get involved is by attending a free conference on Tuesday, March 14th at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.
“As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ‘officially’ wound down, the pace of deployments is much less,” reads a press release promoting the free conference, adding that because many service members have been home for upwards of 10 years, “the attention of government and the general public to veterans’ related issues has lessened somewhat.”
One can register for the “Veterans Mental Health Conference 2017” here as a way to learn more about giving back to those who served to keep us safe and protect our American values, freedom and our nation’s sovereignty.
There are 167,000 veterans living on Long Island, east of New York City, according to the latest U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data. There is an estimated 39, 471 homeless veterans on a given night in the U.S. with 41 percent of homeless vets between the ages of 31-50, according to the V.A. and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Veterans Health Alliance of Long Island will also attend “Legislative Day” along with the Mental Health Association of New York State (MHANYS) to advocate for a wide array of matters including increased funding for the Joseph Dwyer Peer to Peer Program that allows veterans to heal by talking with their cohorts who understand the challenges of serving in the military. Other issues that will be brought to New York political representatives include funding for suicide prevention services, erasing stigma of mental illness for veterans, funding for mental health workforce and housing. People who are interested in attending to advocate on behalf of U.S. veterans should email Brent Russell, the program coordinator of Veterans Health Alliance or call (516) 489-2322, extensions 1312 or 1213.
Last week, there were House committee hearings on the use of official time at the V.A. A Government Accountability Office report found the Veterans Affairs cannot track official time usage and there are no standardized processes in place to record and calculate official time and money spent by federal union representatives on union activity.
President Donald Trump has vowed to take care of our veterans by reducing the V.A. bureaucracy and allowing veterans to receive healthcare at any private or public hospital with full federal government reimbursement in order to reduce wait times.
Over 505,000 veterans have waited more than a month to see a doctor, according to a June report published by the Military Times. That number is up 23,000 from April. Of the 6.7 million medical appointments at the Veterans Affairs Department medical facilities in the country, 92 percent were scheduled within 30-days – a standard set by Congress in 2014.
This interview originally aired on “The Neil A. Carousso Show Podcast,” which is uploaded daily to iTunes and this site. “The Neil A. Carousso Show,” a live streaming video program, airs Sundays at 12 Noon ET/9 AM PT.
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