Trump launches website for $5m ‘gold card’ granting US residency
Trump launches website for $5m ‘gold card’ granting US residency
www.aljazeera.com
Trump launches website for $5m ‘gold card’ granting US residency
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can my wife and i sell our residency for $5m each?
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As a non-American I don't think I'd buy US residency even for five dollars. But do come cross the Atlantic!
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$1 and a bag of crickets, final offer.
Open to negotiations...
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No, sorry. It’s a bribe.
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Who has $5m and wants to live in a nascent autocracy? What a shithole country.
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Criminals.
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People who love oppression and hoarding wealth but hate equality and facing consequences for their crimes
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Autocrats.
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Tate bros
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Spies from other nations.
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There have been other instances of bribery by/of government "officials" during my 70yrs...
But never has the bribery been so openly blatantly in-your-face fuck-you-can't-do-anything-about-it as is being done by this miserable stunted stupid sorry attempt at a human.
Words alone simply fail to convey my hatred and disgust of these fuckers. Nor of my sorrow and disdain for the depths to which the US had plunged.
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Golden visas aren't really that extraordinary, many countries have something similar. It's just a slap in the face to everyone else that has to jump through an increasing amount of hoops just to get a green card to see that you can just skip the line if you're wealthy enough (which has really always been the case on some level, but not that blatant).
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Lots of “dream countries” do this and also have very strict immigration policy and strict assimilation rules
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My favorite part,
Trump administration officials have suggested that the card will replace the EB-5 immigrant investor visa programme, which grants permanent residency to immigrants who invest at least $1.05m in the US, or $800,000 in designated economically distressed areas.
So since the 90s anyone with $1 million has been able to buy/invest their way in.
This "new gold card" costs $5 million.
So it costs five times as much, it's just a bribe and not an investment. I'm guessing putting together a business plan costs less than $4 million.
So the obvious question becomes... What type of person is willing to spend $5 million, but not $1 million. (And I'm guessing less oversight.)
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The USA was already not a serious country but this is so pathetic that it wouldn't make it into a movie script for being too far-fetched.
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Like the article says, it's probably just a replacement for EB-5 visas, which many countries have.
Fuckin' inflation on that bitch though, went from just over a mil in investment to a straight up $5m fee. Where does the fee go? No one knooooowwwwwwsssssss
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Great way for his russian buddies to get here for his bday.
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Great way to launder a ton of money while a bunch of key voters randomly appear in swing states too
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They're all here already. That's who's been propping up his real estate since the '90s.
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so let me get this straight, they're deporting the poor immigrants, but letting the rich ones in? Makes sense /s
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Any non-US citizen who has this much discretionary money to spend on Trump's dumbass card, already has the resources and network to become a US citizen already if they want
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How do they do that? Fake company to employ them? Pay off someone to fake marry them?
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I ate the onion. Then got very sad when I realized it was real
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The onion is really falling behind.
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Someone ddos or hack this fucking thing asap, please. Is his password still
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Anyone with the money that actually wants this already got it for free, right?
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This way terrorists can by bypass all the rules etc and get citizenship. Just bribe the Moron-in-chief. Brilliant!
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$5mil and you get to be there for the start of a civil war. Bargain!
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I hope everyone always calls ICE on them, whenever someone notices these rich immigrants.
Even if they don't take them into custody, wasting both their time would be a good start.
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Only the best people..,
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People with money are better. Obv
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And the grift continues.
That's all America is now. One big grift. Everyone trying to grift each other for scraps while the prolific grifters grift us all.
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oh the yuge biggie gold card
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It is the best card. A lot of people are saying it. Tremendous. Not like the weak Biden card.
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But what if they're brown?
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They'll just get deported later. Great deal for the US.
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Ha Ha Ha, If they paid me 5 million I might consider visiting the USA but only maybe.
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“News” on Lemmy.world is for just US news, because course it is.
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He'll take the money and imprison you anyways. We have all been seeing exactly how he reacts for multiple decades. Right?
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Rich people don’t get imprisoned in the United States shitshow. Lawlessness for the wealthy cutthroat capitalism for the rest of us
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Not the onion.... WTF
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He never cared about immigration. He just cares about business. I bet some cartel leaders could buy these.
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Technically internal US news, but as it's really of interest to non-US citizens, leaving it up.
Thank you. By definition, immigration has to involve multiple countries, IMO...
He will do this today, and deport them later.
Rinse and repeat for infinite profit.
Yeah really interressing, I was definitively looking for a way to pay 5M to immigrate to the big clown show that is US lmao
Unrelated, but why is your username green? Red usernames mean admin, but what does green mean?
Green means I'm one of the Moderators here. Some apps even put a little "M" next to it.