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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that hundreds of Black Americans at Chicago's Cloverhill Bakery are employed today because the federal government drove illegal aliens from the jobs.

Barbara Jordan is a true hero of the Civil Rights Movement, an icon of American politics, and a guiding light to those who continue to fight for immigration reforms that put the interests of the American people first. Susan F. Martin, professor emerita at Georgetown University and former staff member of the Jordan Commission, wrote a piece last week attacking President Trump for a letter the White House put out praising Jordan's work. Martin was aghast that Trump would "intimate" that he and Jordan held similar policy positions on immigration. President Trump is a political lightening rod, no doubt, even more so than other modern Presidents, but in attacking him Martin misrepresented Barbara Jordan's views on immigration and the recommendations of the Jordan Commission.

Most American voters had to be thrilled to finally hear their long-time immigration desires expressed at the highest level as the President made clear in his State of the Union address that any immigration deal has to eliminate Chain Migration and end the Visa Lottery.

And I'm not sure I have ever heard a President better express the priorities of immigration policies than tonight when Pres. Trump reminded us that such policies must always take into consideration their effect on the vulnerable of our own national community.