That’s a great benefit to my cousin, the drug lord. For a mere $50 million, pennies to a drug lord, he can place an authorized agent in each of the ten largest cities in the U.S.
Kidding aside, that would require an act of Congress, but the GOP controls both houses, so I suppose they will salute and march for him.
If you’re rich you can vacation in the u.s. anytime you want ~ just sayin’ …
Seriously, is Trump off his meds?
Yielding back the balance of my time.
I am not a fan of Trump. I am horrified much of what he’s done since taking office, but this actually sounds like a good idea. If 250,000 people buy these golden green cards, that’s $1.25 trillion dollars to the treasury. Those people would presumably go on to pay taxes and would be unlikely to be a drain on government services. Obviously, there would need to be background checks and vetting, but assuming that was done correctly, I don’t see a downside. The golden green cards should be in addition to, not in place of, the million or so green cards currently authorized by Congress. I have no idea how many people would be willing to buy a golden green card, but I believe the sales have a better chance of balancing the budget than eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. As I understand it, the entire federal civilian payroll is less than our most recent budget deficits.
The US isn’t very attractive at the moment…except for oligarchs.
Probably worth noting that the $5 million gold card is intended to replace the current EB5 visa program that *only* requires a $1 million business investment. I’m sure anyone that wants to defraud the US by “investing” a million bones in a ‘front’ business in exchange for citizenship will be just as happy to pony up $5 million for the same purpose. The difference being (pay attention here math-challenged lefties), the US will get more up-front money, instead of hoping that the million dollar investment actually leads to hirings and long-term tax revenue.
It’s very unlike a Democrat to purposefully withhold facts when presenting news or information about DJT, so im guessing Scoops and shiloh just didn’t realize they had omitted that important part of the story. No harm, no foul.
I didn’t include any part of any story. That’s all in the link.
The drug lord bit is a jest. My only comment is that it would require an Act of Congress, which is correct.
As to the idea itself. I don’t really see any significant downside. I’m not sure that it will attract that many takers, but it doesn’t seem to do any harm, and might do some good. Some years ago, when I researched places to retire, I found that other countries have similar programs. I can’t recall any countries that require hopeful immigrants to shell out an actual cash payment, but several require potential immigrants to demonstrate a certain minimum net worth (in various ways).
Oh come on now. In today’s world of quick news, listicals, tweets, and memes, the headline and byline are the story. By omitting the fact that the new program is a replacement for an existing (cheaper) program, you’re presenting the story as if Trump concocted a new way to sell citizenship to rich people, when in fact he’s just embiggening the cost of a legacy program.
I also thought it was comical and disingenuous the way you said, “but the GOP controls both houses, so I suppose they will salute and march for him.” As if voting party lines for a president’s proposals and programs was something new under Trump. As if any Dem legislator voted against ANY of the garbage Biden’s puppeteers put forth the last four years.
You’re really exhibiting your own version of Derangement Syndrome, finding criticism where there is none. I actually think this is a decent idea.
And the GOP has exhibited more than the usual lock-step approach. The real case in point is Pete Hegseth, who is obviously not qualified to be DefSec – well, really he’s not qualified for any job. You wouldn’t hire him to manage an Arby’s – but the GOP voted him through, although he didn’t deny of the accusations against him – even when given the chance to do so with direct questions!
You may agree or disagree with previous nominations from both the right and left, but I can’t recall anyone in the history of the United States to get such a lofty position without even the slightest qualifications to manage a department with 2 million employees – or even two employees.
(Not to mention a lifetime of behavior as a drunken stumblebum.)
Another moron.
Just adding re: moron, Trump and economics 6 of his corporations filed for bankruptcy. Indeed, how does one lose a over a $billion in the Clinton economic boom yrs of 1993 to 2000? Rhetorical.
Almost impossible to lose $$$ running a casino 😮 but Trump succeeded. Hiring the best people notwithstanding …
If you can afford $5 Mil for a card, you can afford to live anywhere in the world already, including places a lot less hostile than the U.S.
It is not clear whether there would be many takers for this offer, but I don’t see any real downside. Do you? If not, why not try it?
The issue is twofold:
1. Even if he’s saying there will be some vetting process, virtually every word he says is a lie so this quickly sounds like citizenship for sale. Which is a terrible idea on so many levels. We’re careful with who becomes a citizen for a reason.
2. Given he’s saying the current process is full of graft and broken, given he’s said all undocumented immigrants are criminals and suggests almost every ill in the nation comes from immigrants, and given how many people are waiting for perfectly valid immigration requests and are caught in the backlog of our completely broken immigration process, this clearly represents a fast track to legal status for anyone with cash that Trump -likes-. It’s a way for people to openly bribe his admin for green cards. Putting a “favors for sale” sign in front of the office doesn’t make it any less of a bribe.
People with green cards and citizenship are subject to certain rights and privileges. Selling those to whoever he deems worthy can only lead to terrible things.
Is there a money back guarantee? Most citizens I know all want to flee the US.
Those are just crybaby liberal commies. Those aren’t citizens. We want them to flee. And I’m guessing you’re not American anyway.
Nah, you’re just a complete MAGA moron or are you commenting from St. Petersburg?
Trump is only going to be in office for 3.5 more years, but it typically takes a lawful permanent resident 5 years to complete the naturalization process. That means it will be the next administration that would be making the final decision on granting citizenship. The next president will almost certainly be a Democrat. The only way the GOP holds on to the White House is if Trump is really popular three years from now and I just don’t see that happening. Do you?
Don’t bet on it..Trump is talking about a 3rd term.
Trump just got Andrew Tate and brother sprung from Romania and brought to the U.S. without the $5 million fee, so just imagine who he might allow in with the fee.
As long as they can pay, the vilest people are welcome.
Quick follow-up… Looks like the original $1 million investment card was approved back in 1990 when a million bucks was still a lot of money. After Biden ran the treasury printers at warp speed for 4 years, that same million ain’t what it used to be. With inflation, a million 1990-dollars is about $2.5 million today. So Trump is essentially doubling the price of admission from when the legislation was originally enacted.
The fact that you equate “invest in a company and generate a bunch of jobs” with “give the Trump admin a pile of cash.”
Those aren’t the same. One is a bribe. The other is an economic boost.
You’re not giving anything to any administration. The payment is made to the US Treasury. Many countries have incentive programs that are similar in some way.
See Elon Musk who controls the purse strings.
Blaming Biden for all of the inflation since 1990? I mean, I think that Biden was pretty shit, but you really are shockingly stupid
Did I blame him for all of it, or just the super inflation of the last four years? According to BLS.gov, $1mil in Jan 1990 equaled just over $2mil in Jan 2021 and just under $2.5mil in Jan 2025. So 100% cumulative over 31 years, then 25% over the next four. And I think we all know that that 25% cumulative jump under biden is probably understated.
Except that the point you’re making is pretty much the opposite of reality. The USA pretty much did the best job with post-pandemic economics of any country. We had about the same inflation rate as the rest of the G10 (lower in Biden’s last two years), but growth in GDP, consumption, and employment was exceptional relative to all other developed countries. Investment — as measured by real gross capital formation — was especially high in the U.S. In 2023 and 2024, U.S. investment accelerated relative to its peers.
One exception: Japan held inflation under control, but with low GDP growth (below 2% on 2023 and 2024).
Let’s face it, policymakers had to make a post-COVID choice. One route was to employ aggressive fiscal stimulus, but accept elevated inflation in the face of highly atypical supply chain pressures. The second option was to offer less governmental support, allowing for the output gaps and sluggish growth in consumption to mute inflation. Biden, and to some extent the Fed, chose the former, while the rest of the developed world opted for the latter. As a result, the U.S. has seen substantially more economic growth and more investment, with no worse inflation than its peers in the developed world. Today, U.S. investment is 14% above its pre-COVID level, while investment in the Eurozone has fallen by 7% over the same period.
In simple terms, the other developed countries had the same inflation without the same growth. It’d be difficult to assert that the USA made the wrong choice.
Imagine how low our inflation rate would’ve been if we had actually used all of that new cash we printed to invest in infrastructure, jobs, and other useful things, instead of hosting illegals in swanky NYC hotels, sending it to other countries to fund DEI musicals, funding a war in Ukraine, and other fraudulent and unnecessary activity. We essentially spent four years lighting money on fire.
And anyway, all of that is beside the original point I was making. That being that $5mil now, adjusted for inflation, really isn’t that much more than the million bucks originally required in 1990 to buy citizenship.
The point is that we did use the money to stimulate growth, which is why job creation hit record post-FDR levels, an infrastructure bill finally got passed, and the USA’s investment levels soared post-pandemic, while the other developed countries floundered.
You may say that Biden didn’t go a great job at managing the post-pandemic economy, but he did a far better job than anyone else in the world.
Again, please enforce the “don’t comment under a different username” rule.
Who is under suspicion?
I haven’t seen that maga2028 username before.
It is legit. Goes back several months.
Mea culpa. I must’ve ignored it at the time.
Is there a stipulation that if you buy citizenship you can’t hold public office? What would stop some rich oligarch from buying his way in and flooding a political opponent, winning, and becoming a puppet for another country like China or Russia?
If they want to do that, they can do it now. The existing system (EB-5 visa) offers permanent residence with a path to citizenship in return for a certain level of investment in American businesses. This new proposal merely shifts the money from the private sector to the public coffers, and ups the ante to five million. So in terms of your concern, whatever negatives may be in the new proposal already inhere to the status quo.