SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has started rolling out a dedicated website and other digital infrastructure for Trump's $5 million gold card program, which he said would allow wealthy people to buy US residency. From me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-t... - ThreadSky

lmatsakis.bsky.social • 1 day ago

SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE has started rolling out a dedicated website and other digital infrastructure for Trump's $5 million gold card program, which he said would allow wealthy people to buy US residency. From me & @zoeschiffer.bsky.social https://www.wired.com/story/doge-trump-gold-visa-program-immigration/

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lollybroch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Let me guess there will be no vetting process and any felons violent or not will be allowed as long as they have the money !

dconrad.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Felons get a 10% discount

dawnruhnaybrown.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Fuck.

statelessai.bsky.social•1 day ago

What if they are also activists?

captaininertia.bsky.social•1 day ago

I wonder what financial data and PII applicants submit on this website and how compromised it is already because of it

ave.zone•23 hours ago

It's probably going to go through the usual visa process, with a separate payment step (because you don't just pay $5m with a card) to a bank account or smth.

sanity56.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Send me 1 million and I will get you into the country.

oldbaby.bsky.social•23 hours ago

yes come here wealthy striving dipshits come live here like you deserve

rkdowner.bsky.social•6 hours ago

djpgreen.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is just absolute bullshit

davehill.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doesn’t. Doesn’t that require authorization from congress?

thereseheitman.bsky.social•23 hours ago

wealthy people, ie trumps ganster friends

70suns.bsky.social•21 hours ago

By what right?

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•23 hours ago

A terrorist like Bin Laden could easily afford to buy residency for a bunch of terrorists who he wants to move here to inflict attacks on the country.

49ilhb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sick

cjenergy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Surely there has to be legislative authorization before Trump can do this? Right? Right?

thezenchzguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Got 5 million, become a US Citizen
Be born here, have a foreign parent, get extradited
No due process
Just a boot to the booty
STOP CALLING IT DEPORTATION
YOU DONT DEPORT US CITIZENS
YOU EXILE THEM
ALL IF THIS IS FUCKING ILLEGAL
#IMPEACHTRUMP
#ARRESTELONMUSK
#resist

karmasdad.bsky.social•2 hours ago

This shit's gotta stop.

justinberger.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Who gets the money?

lmatsakis.bsky.social•9 hours ago

The Trump administration has described the visa as a way to reduce the federal deficit, but since there's no law outlining the visa, there's no specifics about where the money would go

justinberger.bsky.social•42 minutes ago

We know where it goes.

born2wrshp.bsky.social•23 hours ago

...now international, wealthy gangsters can experience the "American Dream"...

cyndicaldwell.bsky.social•22 hours ago

So the whole ‘only let those in based on merit’ thing was bs?

swiffy.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Where is the $5 million paid? Is it to the US Treasury or something connected to Trump personally? Because no actual law authorizes this program with its sketchy paid visa scheme

outbeyond.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump wants even more wealthy (white) men in America, who'll, of course, lobby him and his GOP friends for more tax cuts while waving off how this makes struggling already-here Americans even poorer. 😒

swgeneralmills.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Scam

danadoesdemocracy.bsky.social•1 day ago

niracas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great way to bring in foreign hit men to kill your opponents.

Oh well they paid the fee(allegedly), mistakes happen.

ave.zone•23 hours ago

They really don't need a $5m option if they want to bring in select people for such purposes, I'm sure they could arrange a student visa or similar. A hitman with $5m to spare would raise a lot of questions post-mortem.

billstewart.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Immigrants or students from a "friendly" foreign country,
maybe Saudi Arabia, here to "learn aircraft piloting", for instance?

niracas.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Or they can bring in Russian hitmem claim they were under the program and have them dissappear.

True any other visa or smuggling would work but a non legal bypass to the process with zero oversight is more rife for abuse.

ave.zone•23 hours ago

then still questions are raised about how they couldn't vet people under this system and how the hitman got $5m in the first place. it's a bad look politically.

a much better fake would be to make up historic documents, claim this hypothetical person came during biden admin as any common visa class

mikethemadbiol.bsky.social•21 hours ago

📌

susubrooks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Cuz what we need is more crazy rich guys?

capkat.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Congressional Republicans are ok with this???

lmatsakis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Immigration regulations on the books carefully outline how many green cards the US government can issue each year and under what circumstances. It's not clear what the legal basis is for the Trump Card Visa, but it appears to be moving ahead any way

reiveronethree.bsky.social•1 day ago

"It's not clear what the legal basis is for the Trump Card Visa, but it appears to be moving ahead any way."

Money. The legal basis is money. People will pay money for the it, and that money will filter through to the appropriate parties, and they'll declare it legal.

At least the mask is off.

billstewart.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It'll be fun to see the first time ICE arrests somebody using one of those cards (real or fake, hardly matters.)

reiveronethree.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I lived in Thailand for a time. There's a vanity license plate you can get that basically means 'I'm rich as fuck'. It's expensive so it checks out but, yeah, it's telling cops don't fuck with me cause I'm rich enough to fuck with you right back.

Didn't think I'd see it in America but here we are.

billstewart.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The closest US equivalents are the various "Donor to the Police Benevolent Fund" etc. plates saying you've paid your bribe in advance.

reiveronethree.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Lol those don't work. I've worked with tons of LEO (long story) and they love to pull over a car with a dozen of those on the back window.

Thanks for the donation, jackass! 👋

heauxly.click•1 day ago

like so many other programs & elements of policy, it's not clear their legal basis, or they have no legal basis, or they're straight up illegal/unconstitutional, but they're going ahead anyway.

lmatsakis.bsky.social•1 day ago

In late March, DOGE registered the website "trumpcard.gov," according to federal domain registrar records. The website is connected to other domains associated with immigration services, Customs and Border Protection, and the State Department

harleytheequinn.bsky.social•1 day ago

😡

lmatsakis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Over the past few weeks, DOGE has been meeting with officials from those agencies to coordinate on the Trump Visa Card initiative, our reporting shows. Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick has said that he's already sold 1,000 of these gold cards, but it's not clear to who or where the money would go

harleytheequinn.bsky.social•1 day ago

😡

lmatsakis.bsky.social•1 day ago

One thing we found in our reporting is that a reference to the "Trump Card Visa" has already appeared in application forms for Global Entry, the program that lets you skip the normal immigration line at the airport when you enter the US

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•23 hours ago

The hell

lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social•21 hours ago

!!!

vross.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤮

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