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President Trump has endorsed a sweeping new Senate immigration plan that puts a preference on job skills and not family ties in granting immigrants entry into the United States.

In a speech in Ohio Tuesday night, the president also bragged that his administration is being "rough" on illegals, especially criminals, and "liberating towns and cities" from MS-13 and other illegal gangs..

"We are dismantling and destroying the bloodthirsty criminal gangs. And, well, I will just tell you this -- we're not doing it in a politically correct fashion. We're doing it rough," said the president of his Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. "Our guys are rougher than their guys. We have tough people. Our people are tougher than their people. Our people are tougher and stronger and meaner and smarter than the gangs. One by one we're finding the illegal gang members, drug dealers, thieves, robbers, criminals and killers, and we're sending them the hell back home where they came from," he added.

Trump gave a strong shoutout to the Republican authors of the new legislation, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Georgia Sen. David Perdue.

"As we speak, we are working with two wonderful senators, Tom Cotton and David Perdue, to create a new immigration system for America," said Trump.

The duo are currently updating the legislation they introduced earlier this year. Basically, it will focus more on immigrant merits, such as job skills, over family ties to those already in the U.S. The goal is a system that doesn't reward illegal crossings or let immigrants take jobs from Americans.

Said Trump, "Instead of today's low-skilled system -- just a terrible system where anybody comes in -- people that have never worked, people that are criminals; anybody comes in -- we want a merit-based system -- one that protects our workers, our taxpayers, and one that protects our economy. We want it merit-based. We want people that work really hard in their country and that are going to come into our country and work really, really hard. We don't want people that come into our country and immediately go on welfare and stay there for the rest of their lives."

The legislative effort comes as the administration is collecting success after success in its war on illegal immigration. ICE officials said that illegal immigration is down 70 percent and the arrests and deportation of criminal illegals is up.

What's more, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made good on threats to some 300 sanctuary cities and regions, prompting some to change course and cooperate with ICE.

"American cities should be sanctuaries for law-abiding Americans -- the people that look up to the law, the people that respect the law -- not for criminals and gang members that we want the hell out of our country," Trump said during his address in Youngstown.

And, he added, people are cheering his actions.

"We are actually liberating towns and cities. We are liberating. People are screaming from their windows, Thank you, thank you,' to the Border Patrol and to General Kelly's great people that come in and grab these thugs and throw them the hell out. We're liberating our towns and we're liberating our cities," said the president.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

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