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‘For $5 million, this could be yours,’ Trump says of card available to wealthy immigrants to buy a right to live and work in the U.S.

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[–] HowAbt2morrow 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not the Onion? Fucking come on already

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Today's reality is wilder than anything Onion can come up with.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah I 100% expected this to be an Onion article!

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

If you give me the $5 million, I'll take one of the disgusting things off your hands.

Dollars won't be worth much soon anyway.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 day ago

Selling citizenship like blue check marks? This sounds familiar.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

He looks very old

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Other countries do this, too. Here's 18 of them: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa/

Rich people play by a different set of rules than you do, even in places with slightly less oligarchy.

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 17 points 1 day ago

The US is already on that list, and the golden visas top out at $100k. This is just another Trump scam.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for that list. Seriously considering some

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I bet it's not a gold card. It's just a painted on piece of toast.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

It's bronzer

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It’s yellow and brown on inkjet paper that says

DO NOT LAMINATE

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We are slaves for the highest bidders. We have been for a long time but this is just the latest security update for them. This is an offer for people to come to America to live out their corruption in admin-created, perfect poor environment for them to abuse.

Hey I always wanted to be Cyprus, said no one ever, including Cyprus (<3)

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Gusanos salivating right now. They never miss an opportunity to get easy US citizenship and flex wealth.