Trump says to address trade, immigration in State of the Union speech

 

U.S. President Donald Trump departs after the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Monday he will address his proposed immigration overhaul in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday and will seek Democratic support for it.

 

Speaking to reporters after a swearing-in ceremony for new Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, Trump said his immigration overhaul will have to be bipartisan "because the Republicans don't really have the votes to get it done in any other way."

 

Trump also said his speech will cover his efforts to lower trade barriers around the world for American exports. "We have to have reciprocal trade. It's not a one-way deal anymore," he said.

 

(Reporting By Steve HollandEditing by Chizu Nomiyama)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-01-30

Trump has never addressed immigration. Not once. He has addressed illegal immigration, hundreds of times. Not the same thing. You will never be able to fix illegal immigration, until you fix legal immigration. The immigration system in the US is completely broken. It has been for a half century. The US is no longer able to attract the best and the brightest from around the world, due to a silly, outdated, churlish, bizarre quota system, for work visas. It is not up to date. Not even close. Foreign Nuclear physicists, who get a degree at MIT, on a student visa, cannot get a work visa, to work for a major American corporation, due the quota system. Look into it. You will be shocked. And nobody wants to touch it. Obama tried and failed.