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.
5 million, do you get anything other than citizenship with that price, like Yankees tickets or free dinner at Arby’s?
5% cash back for all bookings at Trump’s hotels.
Literally could not pay me enough to stay at a Trump property
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.
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.
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.
This is just another plan to destroy the country through foreign agents.
Poor guys, truly the millionaire investors are the most oppressed class.
100% nod to Russian mobsters
“Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," he said.
So we are Philippines now!
I don’t have millions, you probably don’t have millions. You know who does? Kingpins, spies, cartel drug lords.
new zealand does this already, thats why billionaires have planned bunkers and complexes there just in case things liek this happen.
Oh, more oligarchs. Yay.
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.
As long as they launder it well
I mean, fuckhead MAGA said they wanted Trump to run America like a business. Too bad they can’t afford to stay.
Looks like the executive branch is raising funds without Congress…
I swear, I had a 10th grade Gov teacher and that’s all she wanted us to know - that the Congress carries the purse….
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!
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.
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.
*tracts of land
“I don’t know, sounds like communism.” - MAGAts
