Tag: Visas

Waiting On A ‘Gold Card’

This is not the same thing as your Visa gold card….this is in reference to the US visa that the Trump Administration is selling….you are surely heard the term ‘green card’…..well this is a visa that rich people can pay to enter the US.

President Trump teased a new visa program Tuesday with something “like a green card,” but his favorite color: gold. Trump said the gold card, with “a higher level of sophistication,” would offer “very high-level people” a new “route to citizenship”—for the cost of $5 million, per the New York Times. “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card” and receiving “green card privileges,” said Trump, who spoke to reporters while signing various executive orders, per CNN.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “the Trump gold card” would replace the EB-5 visa program, under which investors and their families can receive permanent residence if they make a significant investment in a US business that creates or preserves 10 permanent full-time jobs for US workers. Trump said the wealthy foreigners buying gold cards would be “people that create jobs,” without giving details, per the Times.

“They’ll have to go through vetting, of course,” Lutnick said, per CNN, “to make sure they’re wonderful world-class global citizens.” Asked if a Russian oligarch would be eligible, Trump replied, “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are nice people.” “I think they can afford $5 million,” he continued. He predicted the government would be able to sell a million or more gold cards starting in about two weeks. “If you add up the numbers, they’re pretty good,” he said.

A new way for the rich to come here and become a parasite on the American system.

The precedes would go to pay off the national debt….

President Donald Trump believes he can pay off America’s $36 trillion national debt by charging rich immigrants $5 million for a gold card—which has green card privileges “plus a route to citizenship.”

President Trump made the impromptu announcement in the Oval Office yesterday, telling reporters: “Remember the words gold card.”

The president said he had planned to make the announcement next week but seized the opportunity to share the news while signing executive orders on Tuesday.

As a result, details of what the gold card will entail are still sparse, but the Republican politician said: “Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people.

They will come and pay lots of taxes……who believes that fairy tale?

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The H-1B Debate Erupts.

Today is National Bacon Day and what better time to post on the pigs that will be running this country?

A minor buckle in the MAGA loyalists over a special visa for those ‘elite workers’…..it seems some of Trumpies picks for high position are not natural Americans and got where they are by this special visa and this set off a heated debate.

A “civil war” of sorts broke out over the weekend in MAGA world, pitting far-right Trump supporters against the billionaire tech-bro contingent. The fight started Sunday when President-elect Trump announced he’d chosen venture capitalist and India native Sriram Krishnan as a senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence. That “triggered an anti-Indian backlash,” per Axios, which notes that part of the pushback against Krishnan has centered on his advocacy for lifting caps on H-1B visas. More:

  • H-1B: CNN notes that this specific visa program allows 65,000 “highly skilled” workers into the US annually, with another 20,000 granted the paperwork if they obtained an advanced degree in the US. The tech sector especially makes use of this visa—including Trump ally Elon Musk, who first came to the US as a foreign student and then worked here on an H-1B visa.
  • Ready, set, fight: Newsweek has a timeline, starting with a series of disparaging tweets from Trump loyalist Laura Loomer. On Monday, she called the selection of Krishnan “deeply disturbing,” adding that his views are “in direct opposition” to Trump’s “America First” agenda. In a follow-up tweet on Christmas Eve, she noted “our country was built by white Europeans, actually. Not third world invaders from India.”
  • Musk: The new Trump BFF weighed in next in support of drawing highly skilled workers from other countries, writing on Christmas: “The number of people who are super talented engineers AND super motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be. That enables the whole TEAM to win.”
  • Ramaswamy: Vivek Ramaswamy’s comments came Thursday, spurring accusations of “elitist rhetoric,” per the Times of India. In a lengthy tweet, Ramaswamy accused American culture of fostering “mediocrity.” “A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers,” he wrote. “More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends. More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons.”
  • More reaction: Other big names in the GOP sphere pushed back at Musk and Ramaswamy. “There is nothing wrong with American workers or American culture,” posted former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. “We should be investing and prioritizing in Americans, not foreign workers.” Ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz weighed in on the “tech bros”: “We did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy.”
  • Musk turns on Loomer: When Loomer insinuated that a rift was growing between Trump and his Silicon Valley pals, and that DOGE is a “vanity project,” Musk called her a “troll,” per the New Republic. Loomer also insisted Friday that Musk was retaliating by taking away her blue check and subscriptions on X, the social media platform he owns.
  • Trump’s take: The former and future commander in chief slammed restricted H-1B visas somewhat during his first term. However, in a podcast this past June, Trump appeared to have softened his stance, noting that he believed any foreign national who graduated from an American college should be eligible for permanent residency.
  • What’s next? Per Axios, this “tense MAGA vs. DOGE moment” will “potentially settle a looming conflict over who has the most influence in Trump 2.0—his historic base or his newfound techno-libertarian allies.” “It’s a sign of future conflicts,” warns Samuel Hammond, senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, per the Washington Post. “This is like the pregame.”

Damn foreigners!

This minor ‘civil war’ will be fascinating to watch and see how dear Donald handles this….

Damn I love this stuff!

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