Month: September 2017

  by ConservativeHQ.com Staff   It’s a cinch that if a bunch of globalist billionaires are for something, there’s a catch in it somewhere for American workers, which is why the movement to pass legislation implementing Obama’s illegal and unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) should be greeted with a solid wall of opposition from President Trump’s conservative – populist coalition. Forbes reports that on August 31st, several business leaders including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook and LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner signed an open letter asking President Trump and Congressional leaders to preserve the program. FWD.us, a coalition of globalist business leaders of the technology community founded in 2013 to support “comprehensive immigration reform” AKA open borders legislation has come out strongly in favor of DACA-like legislation. Founders of the organization include Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and venture capitalist Sean Parker, among others. Following Attorney General Sessions’ announcement that DACA was constitutionally indefensible, FWD.us issued a statement expressing its opposition to President Trump’s decision and called on Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to grant DACA recipients blanket amnesty. In addition to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, other billionaires backing the preservation of DACA…

  by ConservativeHQ.com Staff   President Trump has just set up a defining moment in American politics by putting the responsibility for resolving the constitutional issues created by Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program squarely where it belongs – with the Republican Congress. The problem is that the leaders of the Republican majority – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan – are so out of touch with grassroots Republican voters that their idea of solving the problem is to simply pass legislation that mirrors Obama’s executive amnesty for children brought to the United States illegally. Some well-meaning conservatives may see the opportunity for some grand conservative sounding deal on immigration reform that would include legislating DACA and coupling it with the RAISE Act. The RAISE Act, co-sponsored by Republican senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, would reduce levels of legal immigration to the United States by 50% by halving the number of green cards issued. The bill would also impose a cap of 50,000 refugee admissions a year and would end the visa diversity lottery. Others have suggested some combination of the RAISE Act, DACA legislation and funding for the southern border…