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.
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
Tell that to all the green hard holders they’ve detained.
Oh wait, you can’t because nobody knows where the fuck they are.
My brother in Christ they have not detained 12 million people
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/us/green-card-visa-holders-deportation-fears-cec
But yes every one of them ICE has detained is wrong and illegal. Still that’s not really what I was talking about anyway. A green card is supposed to be a permanent residency permit
Did you think I was suggesting that all green card holders were detained?
Because yeah, no. Read it again maybe?
Before this gets into a whole thing. I think that this discussion wasn’t really the point or topic I was trying to address.
A green card is supposed to be permanent residency. Just like the purchased residences that some European countries had.
Trump using ICE and homeland security to commit crimes is a given