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

submitted 1 month ago by btaf45@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month 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@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

Good old H.W. Bush

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

Haha Martin Luther doubt

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Birthright citizenship is bad. Buying citizenship in bribes to Trump is good.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Just wait until he starts selling "natural born" citizenship so Elon can run for president