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?
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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.
Yeah but you don't need american citizenship to do that they will sell out to anyone.
You need to run a business in America.
No you don't.
Hundreds of companies are owned by foreign owners.
I didn't say businesses werent owned by foreigners...
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
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Just someone looking to exploit Americans for more money.
You'd have to pay me a million dollars to move to the US right now...
Actually, no I think the amount would be significantly more than that
Do the Trump maneuver. Say you will do it, collect the 1 million, then don't move there. Clear profit!
Jesus Christ! I thought it was only a thousand spacebucks…
The worst part is, other countries have done this, we just did it in the worst way possible.
There are several countries where if you invest enough in the economy through trade and businesses you can actually get a visa. But you have to actually invest in the economy not just throw a million dollars at some orange dickhead.
Many countries have investor visas. The US has one still! I think the law was investing at least 1 million USD in a mostly or wholely American owned company or starting a business that employs at least 10 people.
Yeah but the investor visas involve investment and growth in the country, not just a million dollar "donation" to the government. It feels less like "improve the country and you will be welcome" and more "be rich and we will let you in the boys club"
Exactly. No one starts a business that employs 10 people just so they can simply live in a country.
What trump wants is legalized bribery.
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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
I mean where have you been? If laws and rules no longer had any meaning then why is the administration being forced to give back the tariff money and repeal them? Why was the admistration forced to re-hire thousands of federal employees it illegally terminated? Why was the national gaurd forced to leave several cities?
These were all decided by the courts and the administration complied. I'm not saying compliance is perfect, and I'm not saying the administration isn't trying to do very undemocratic things. But clearly there is still some rule of law.
Also yes the president can wage war like that. We do have a law on the books that gives the president basically 60 days to do whatever he wants with the military. Cold war era law that was poorly written
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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.
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.
Or take the fees for applications but not process any of them. As they are currently doing
Is it one of his pedophile friends?
A guy by the name of Geoff Eppstone apparently.
Crazy that this doesn't outright buy citizenship, like some European countries do/used to do. Makes it a much smaller value.
Canada has a similar buy a visa system. But it's for investing rather than just buying.
Those didn't outright buy citizenship either. They gave permanent residency permits could later be converted to citizenship based on the country's naturalization laws.
Which is exactly what a green card is
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.... so stupid
Some how the US is run by the biggest morons.
As it is tradition. But they take it a bit far now, how do you even top that?
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.
I still wouldn’t put it past an ICE agent that “likes all kinds of music, except hip-hop”
This entire administration all behave like cartoon supervillians.
Watching that smug little shit Lutnick evading questions that he wants to answer when the cameras are off is really quite something.
Cartoon supervillains generally have a coherent plan and goal. These clowns just seem to want to watch the world burn.
Yeah, well fuck him and fuck them.
Fuck all the evil people
what a rip off
Sounds illegal.
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I'd bet whoever bought this is some sort of drug lord or something
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