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Trump to auction off citizenship via his ‘gold cards’ for $5m (www.independent.co.uk)

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The Kushner family was sharply criticized eight years ago after the sister of Jared Kushner, then senior White House adviser to his father-in-laws Donald Trump, traveled to Beijing to tempt wealthy Chinese with an EB-5 Green Card with an investment in one of the Kushner family’s real estate projects — an offer that a former White House ethics lawyer under George. W. Bush called “corruption, pure and simple.”

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This program has existed since 1990 and isn’t new. It’s also very abused and full of fraud.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/eb-5-whats-new

[–] BeardedBlaze 7 points 6 hours ago

Except that was for the green card. This is straight to citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Good old H.W. Bush