I remember when we offered automatic green cards to anyone investing $500,000 in US business or starting one. The program ended because no one wanted it.
I didn’t not get why felon trump is now concerned about deficit reduction. He added 8 trillion to the deficit in his first term and more will be added if his tax cuts for rich pass again.
Dumb ass was trying to explain it today. Just a bunch of bullshit. His bottom line is he thinks it's going to raise money. Trying to say they could make so much money if 10 million gold cards are sold. What a sick joke.
Putting on my dictator hat, I'd have kept EB-5 as a low entry cost option that directly benefits the economy while allowing my rich friends to pay me the $5m directly. Keep everyone sweet (enough)
I suspect at least some of those fees will end up in Trump’s pocket. This new administration is focused on pillaging and plundering. DOGE isn’t focused on efficiency. It’s focused on weakening oversight so they can get away with it.
This is apologist language. It puts citizenship up for sale, and further opens the floodgates to oligarchy. I strongly urge you to do better next time in your reporting. It "could" (read: will) also be used for anything other than deficit reduction. Why would you choose this phrasing?
A simple no-fuss method for wealthy foreign agents to gain full citizenship and complete their work! And it doesn't even cut into the suffering he causes at home. Great job there, Kroznov. Can someone with half a spine arrest this crapbag already...
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
BS. The proceeds will make it into trumps pocket. We’re already seeing the foreign “investment” in Trump family crypto schemes, no doubt these golden visa applicants will also get on board. Plus the importation of even more oligarchs is bad for regular Americans
So immigrants coming to US traveling hundreds of miles on foot with great risk to their lives to work hard and raise a family are now subject to deportation and false imprisonment yet we will offer green cards/path to citizenship to anyone who wants to buy a gold card for $5m? This is disgusting!
Come on NPR. Yes, it could be used for "deficit reduction," but that seems about as likely as it being used for new curtains as Mar-a-Lago. This admin has proven itself unworthy of the benefit of the doubt!
If they go to the general fund, then that is deficit reduction.
Realistically, this program is going to generate less than $5B per year in revenue, so it's a tiny scratch on the deficit - particularly the deficit proposed in the current budget.
It wouldn't be enough to do more than barely graze the deficit, and it's really gross to headline in it a way that lends false credibility to this garbage.
This is exactly like what they do in Cyprus and Malta. It's a cash grab and enables corrupt oligarchs from places like Russia to protect their ill-gotten assets from sanctions.
It's a disgusting practice. We're the shithole country now.
Can’t help but feel like he’s setting us up to be a safe haven country for criminals. I mean who else could afford $5M for 1 high ticket item besides wealthy criminals like oligarchs & cartel. Wouldn’t have reason to leave your home country unless you needed protection.
What happened to,
“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!"
Denying basic healthcare and food to poor Americans (children, the elderly, disabled, pregnant women) is cruel and immoral. It is a violation of human rights and the government should be held accountable. The real parasites are politicians and billionaires who keep on getting richer.
NPR states facts, quotes Trump. “State media now”. You people have gone off the deep end with this anti-NPR shit. We get it, you want them to write nothing but inflammatory Trump focused editorials, and every headline should include the words “liar” and “rapist”. Anything else is treason!
Oh Trump’s a chronic liar, but what I’m saying is that the current trend is to get upvotes for shitting on NPR for just writing an accurate fucking headline, or shitting on them for writing an article that not about US politics. They aren’t traitors because they run human interest stories either.
About 10 years back, our HOA board went rogue like DT and started doing all kinds of stupid stuff that 90% of the neighborhood didn't approve of. The worst of it was that they were elected for one year terms but signing 5 year and longer BS contracts for the HOA.
Obnoxious left leaning fucks who are more interested in being pedantic assholes and “correct” than winning elections or getting anything done. People who don’t read articles and instead spend an hour or two a day complaining about one word in a headline so they can get upvotes.
The EB-5 program required the investment to create 10 full time US jobs within 2 years and a path to citizenship after 5. Trumps plan sounded like “just pay $5 million and you’re in” he literally said “oligarchs” so like… idk but that seems to be a VERY different and not “hiding in the shadows”
Most EB-5 program participants passively invested $500K into "job creation programs" managed by others (and, yes, there was some fraud - not a whole lot but any is too much.)
So, yes, this is new, for the (rare) people with 10x more money to piss away instead of "investing."
Thanks to NPR for that, I knew about similar programs in the Bahamas and other Caribbean nations (having looked into emigration there...) not too surprising that the US already has something similar.
One of the few things I like about all the crap that's flying lately: it's exposing existing truths
You mean selling our country out to the most vile people on the planet only because they have money? What is wrong with you? Stop supporting the evil that this administration is inflicting on us as it dismantles our democracy.
That would take alot of Russian oligarchs moving here to make up for the 19 trillion $ additional deficit we are looking at because of his ideas/eos/policies. Better increase that card price to 1 trillion
The US gets squeamish when somebody tries to execute one of their citizens. How many war lords will buy this insurance policy, just to stay alive? “Can’t kill me, I’m a US citizen”.
I’m not sure whether to laugh, or cry as I watch the US swirl the toilet bowl.
No, it will just bring in oligarchs and the very wealthy. How many do we have to sell to have any effect on the deficit created by the coming tax breaks for the wealthy?
The E5-B program has caps, incentives for creating jobs but does have issues with oversight. This program seems to take all of the good of the program out and replaces it with buying your way into US citizenship. Too many issues for congress to pass but Trump claims he can implement without them.
The only people who could pay this are Russian Oligarchs, drug cartels, and Chinese political spies. Yeah, let’s allow them free rein in America. It’s so stupid and dangerous.
NPR, read what you just wrote, out loud, particularly the part where is says “could be used for deficit reduction”. Does that sound right? Do you actually believe that?
Im just going to start blocking needlessly pedantic accounts like yours that have it out for NPR. Picking apart headlines while demonstrating an inability to comprehend the language and seeing shit that isn’t even there is beyond pathetic. Just block NPR if you hate them.
So the foreign criminal rich can come here, buy our land and companies. Then hire Americans and pay them low wages with no benefits. Then conduct shady business or make dangerous products with no accountability.
Since when are "rich" and "good" synonymous? Wealthy people aren't necessarily good people. What's to prevent Putin, China, and other bad actors from buying and sponsoring "gold card" immigrants for their own gain and agendas?!
You know what NPR, if you want to have the support of the people, of which we are many, you really need to find out how you are going to survive when you lose us with this bullshit.
Get real! He has no clue about the EB-5 program that has been very successful in bringing in investments and creating jobs. This will do neither. This is just another pay back to his rich foreign campaign donors. Call it what it is!
The money will not be used for deficit reduction. Seriously? The money will go into the pocket of the king and his court. How stupid do you think the American people are?
Another grifter scam. Who really believes that the money used to buy “Gold Card” visas will go towards the deficit?! It will go to lining his pockets even more.
Really NPR?! You too?! How can you fall down this BS rabbit hole? He even dropped his telltale "in two weeks." They're so pathetic they didn't even come up with calling it a "Trump Card" (probably because that's reserved for when he starts a credit card with a 50%+ interest rate). #Resist #Persist
This golden path to citizenship only further increases the wealth discrepancy and suffering on a mass scale. Bring in the oligarchs and expand AI. Remove poor immigrants and mass fire talent...
So the idiot in Chief FOTUS wants to capitalize on this insipid idea? A new Visa program just for 5 million dollars and the individual will get a Gold card. Wtf?
Just another means of grifting!
Our nation is in Free-Fall from epic incompetence!
Any/all spoken by this current administartion, must not be considered in any manner proven!
HELP SAVE&PROTECT!
PLEASE - CALL your representative/Senator!
There's smoke in the wood-shed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPA3S8Pm8A
The US has already been getting 5 to 10 Billion dollars a year of foreign investment through the EB-5 program, effectively selling green cards to the investors and their families.
Being 5-10x as expensive, I would expect this program to attract less than 1000 participants a year.
This is how Trump will give Russia a seat at the table of American democracy. This is how he will allow massive amounts of Russian cash to freely enter our politics. This is THE single worst thing he plans to do.
This is a spit in the face of everyone who has been thrown out of the US for attempting to come here legally, waiting in Mexico, threatened by criminals, for a shitty app to confirm a handful of appointments.
Now the Russian oligarchs get to skip the line? Fuck that!
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I remember when we offered automatic green cards to anyone investing $500,000 in US business or starting one. The program ended because no one wanted it.
You're definitely buying into the propaganda on this one. You usually do better than this. I'm very disappointed.
What a shit show.
No they won’t.
Now come on, we all know where these proceeds are going - straight into Mango Mussolini's pockets!
Anyways here some other Golden Visa programs.
If I had half a million, I’d be in Portugal right now.
https://www.investopedia.com/golden-visa-countries-8356287
President Trump dictating
in the Putin dictating style.
Instructed over the phone
by Putin’s Dictators for Dummies 101.
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Where does this money go?
Putting on my dictator hat, I'd have kept EB-5 as a low entry cost option that directly benefits the economy while allowing my rich friends to pay me the $5m directly. Keep everyone sweet (enough)
Oligarchs.
That’s what this is for.
https://immigrationforum.org/article/part-1-eb-5-visa-program/
If the "investor" wants to donate $5M to the US Treasury (like: https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/708094624) instead of creating jobs 🤷♀️
-Emma Lazarus
Plaque on the Statue of Liberty
Lyndon B. Johnson
They'll go into Trump's Wealth Sovereign Fund to be used at his "discretion."
Realistically, this program is going to generate less than $5B per year in revenue, so it's a tiny scratch on the deficit - particularly the deficit proposed in the current budget.
It's a disgusting practice. We're the shithole country now.
“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!"
Cool cool.
Otherwise, I agree - NPR is reporting facts, and doing a better job of it than most outlets.
That's my biggest objection /1
Don't get me wrong, I hate just about everything he says (most of which are lies), but things like this were already present hiding in the shadows.
So, yes, this is new, for the (rare) people with 10x more money to piss away instead of "investing."
Deport the poor people and import the rich ones, I guess. The Statue of Liberty should step down from her pedestal.
One of the few things I like about all the crap that's flying lately: it's exposing existing truths
I will bitch slap you, you dumb fucks.
I’m not sure whether to laugh, or cry as I watch the US swirl the toilet bowl.
Where, exactly, are the proceeds from the “gold cards” going?
SELLING CITIZENSHIP FOR $5 MILLION DOLLARS A HEAD IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!
Stop enabling this shit by repeating their lies! It will NOT reduce the deficit.
Trump thinks this money is just going into his pocket the way he talks about it.
Our nation is in Free-Fall from epic incompetence!
Any/all spoken by this current administartion, must not be considered in any manner proven!
HELP SAVE&PROTECT!
PLEASE - CALL your representative/Senator!
There's smoke in the wood-shed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPA3S8Pm8A
Being 5-10x as expensive, I would expect this program to attract less than 1000 participants a year.
-500k multi-millionaire families from China moved to Canada, mostly to Vancouver.
Vancouver has ~500k single family homes. After the program, Vancouver house prices skyrocketed to millions of dollars.
He's letting the rich skip the line.
This is a spit in the face of everyone who has been thrown out of the US for attempting to come here legally, waiting in Mexico, threatened by criminals, for a shitty app to confirm a handful of appointments.
Now the Russian oligarchs get to skip the line? Fuck that!
#EatTheRich
FAT CHANCE!
Somehow I feel like its more likely this will end up in someones pocket like #elonmuskisaNAZI.