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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] 18 points 11 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 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Good old H.W. Bush

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Auctioning Citizenship so FOREIGN IMMIGRANTS can Take American Jobs is HOW WE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

It's more like "so foreign billionaires can also own end indentured american slaves and pay 0 taxes" though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt anyone that pays $5 million for citizenship is going to be taking anyone's job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

While you are correct, they will likely reinvest their money locally over time and "their" money will make money off of the labor performed by the working class. People always warn about pyramid schemes, yet the stock market is basically one big pyramid scheme that companies put a portion of working class income into daily as part of their 401k's. If you want to be able to retire, invest in our pyramid scheme! (Oh and even if everyone is winning in the pyramid as a whole, you can still lose, "volatility")

[–] Hobbes_Dent 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

“They'll be wealthy and they'll be successful and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes…”

Lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Haha Martin Luther doubt