President Donald Trump said he is starting a program which would offer residency and a path to citizenship for investors who commit at least $5 million to projects in the US.
Trump said the program, dubbed the “gold card,” would launch in two weeks, adding that he did not believe his administration needed to secure approval from Congress.
“We’re going to be selling a gold card,” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office as he signed executive orders alongside Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
“We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million, and that’s going to give you green card privileges,” he added, referencing the permits currently issued to US permanent residents.
Yeah… that’s not an ethical violation of his position at all!
https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa/
It’s not a new idea. America already has one, in fact.
The US already has a rich people visa and it’s called the EB-5. Trump is a dumb fuck.
-Investor Visas (EB-5): This program provides permanent residence to foreign national entrepreneurs who invest at least $1,000,000 in a U.S. business that will create or preserve 10 full-time jobs for U.S. workers.
Russians incoming
Nobody should be able to just buy their way, but I’ll give you some food for thought. When I was a graduate student, I knew someone who had the option to buy citizenship for about 40k via marriage visa. That’s it, 40k, though a Chinese broker. Granted this was close to 10 years ago, but if you know the right people, it’s been an option, tricky though it may be.
The system is fucked, but it was fucked before Trump. That’s the whole reason we need a legit pathway to citizenship. But no, fucking gold card. Ugh.
The only pieces of shit putting “5 meel-yens” down Trump’s g-string to get into the US are going to be criminals and Russian assets. People with clean criminal histories and money always had easy entry, for better or worse.
I don’t have millions, you probably don’t have millions. You know who does? Kingpins, spies, cartel drug lords.
I’m the founder of RT. I think I’ll go to the US and start a business. I know, a news business! We can call it America Today. Surely my good friend Donald Trump will give us White House access and we can help spread the “truth” about Ukraine and Europe and the gays to America. Good thing president Putin is giving me the $5 million. Such a great guy.
Say the mexican cartels and rapist he wants to imprison end up paying 5 mil for this, you think he’ll still give them citizenship?
he’d sell a condo to josef mengele.
I mean, fuckhead MAGA said they wanted Trump to run America like a business. Too bad they can’t afford to stay.
Oh, more oligarchs. Yay.
new zealand does this already, thats why billionaires have planned bunkers and complexes there just in case things liek this happen.
Migrant refugees seeking asylum: No go.
Rich foreigners buying citizenship: A-OK.Trump’s just making the subtext into text. This was already how the immigration system in the US worked. Large investments private, professional degrees, friendly relations with diplomats, and back door campaign contributions have been fast tracks to citizenship for decades.
All Trump is proposing is formalization of the process (at an absurd markup - you could easily get a fast track citizenship for closer to $50k than $5M).
And given the declining state of the nation, I’m not even clear who he’d be selling this to. Anyone rich enough to afford a “gold card” has no real interest in leaving their own country.
all the rich ones are fleeing to NZ.
RIP NZ. They’re going to swamp that boat.
Good. It’ll be more fun to track them down there.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
“I don’t know, sounds like communism.” - MAGAts
That was always a lie
It was French trolling.
My grandparents and great grandparents came to the US with almost nothing, as the voyage alone cost a life’s savings.
But the 19th century American economy had just finished Native genocide. We had enormous undeveloped tracks of land and a party - The Republicans - eager to goose the economy with settlers willing to do the hard parts of domestic development for next to nothing.
Rapidly populating the interior with European migrants was a post-Civil War power play, intended to secure territories with party loyal serfs and turn expensive frontier territory into profitable industrial centers.
“Give me your cheap exploitable migrant labor, yearning to work 16 hour days for less than the cost of living” might have been a more accurate phrasing. But the policy of open borders (for Europeans) was real.
*tracts of land
Yeah, I mostly meant that last part. You weren’t gonna get ahead here unless you were a rich white land owning slaver. This idea that the U.S. is or was some bastion of hope and freedom is a straight up lie.
“Free” land was a huge step up from being a serf or a conscript in some European fief. Also, the US was one of the first western nations to implement public education, un-tolled roadways, and public utilities. But you were still a cog in a much larger machine. You just had a bit more autonomy than someone “bound to the land” or otherwise pinned in by rival military powers.
I mean, it wasn’t free, we killed all the people who lived here and stole their land. Much more accurate description of what really happened.
Hence the quotes.
The primary reason for the genocide and subsequent settler occupation was to establish a more pliant population. Initially, that was through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (the Haitian island being the Ur-example - exterminate the natives and kidnap people across the ocean to press gang into service). European migration became a more “free market” alternative.
But the European migration worked in large part because Europeans were fleeing the same kind of Haitian-tier exploitation in Europe. For European refugees (many of whom fled the 30 Years, Napoleonic, and WW1 eras of conflict) the US was absolutely a step up.
Apparently the United States is a commercial airline now. Pay extra for premium boarding.
Poor guys, truly the millionaire investors are the most oppressed class.
