Donald Trump’s “gold card” visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least $1 million to legally live and work in the U.S., has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday — appearing to fall a bit short of an earlier claim.
After it launched in December, Lutnick said that the government had sold $1.3 billion “worth” in just several days, as Trump stood by holding up the gilded ticket and said, “essentially it’s the green card on steroids.”
Lutnick did not address the apparent discrepancy in an exchange with a congresswoman at Thursday’s committee hearing.
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… so stupid
Crazy that this doesn’t outright buy citizenship, like some European countries do/used to do. Makes it a much smaller value.
The Trump administration has been known to just randomly, unilaterally withdraw visas on a whim. You’d have to be crazy to accept that bargain when they just might kick you out anyway and keep your money.
I really really really really want to see in the news soon that this person still got disappeared by ICE for being the wrong color.
It’s Nicki Minaj, so she probably won’t get disappeared. They need her propaganda.
Can you imagine the type of creep you’d have to be to want to pay a million space bucks to move to USA right now?
If I were a billionaire looking to become as rich as humanly possible, and I know I can simply bribe the govt to fuck their constituents, I’d absolutely be doing that. So yeah, that kind of creep.
Can you imagine an IMMIGRANT who’d want to pay a million space bucks to be hunted down by ICE right now?
Not a non-white one, anyway
The types of visas that are available and the rules for them are set by laws passed by Congress. Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category. So if you look at the fine print, this is actually some other already existing category that allows the president to admit individuals at discretion, and the fee is just a donation to the US Treasury. That’s also why it’s not racking up a bunch of court challenges.
Trump doesn’t have the power to
Until such a time as someone actually stops him from doing whatever the fuck he wants, he absolutely does.
Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally…
it’s incredible to me that, today, there are people in the USA who think rules and laws still apply… this is at week 6 of a not-a-war that the orange pedophile did not have the power to unilaterally commit the country to
It’s incredible to me that, today, you’re willing to just give up all rules and laws without even an argument.
Trump doesn’t have the power to just unilaterally create a new visa category.
He gets to order ICE around and they get to decide who actually gets the rough treatment.
That said, I wouldn’t count on this visa being worth much once Trump is gone. So I can understand why nobody is enthusiastic about paying his bribe.
Why do you know that it’s going to the treasury and rules have never stopped him before.
Stupido Stoopefacto Rodriguez ?
Lemme guess, the person is a fellow named “John Barron”, right?
Item number 672 we need to fucking rescind STAT
Sounds illegal.
Yeah, well fuck him and fuck them.
Fuck all the evil people
…didn’t I see Nicki Minaj with it? Is it… Is the one person fucking Nicki Minaj???
No, I think she got told it was all bullshit after she did that Whitehouse visit that tanked her career. So I’m pretty sure it wasn’t her.
I’d bet whoever bought this is some sort of drug lord or something
