Trump Promises $5 Million ‘Gold Cards’ for Foreigners to Buy Citizenship

“Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “They’ll be successful and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people .”

“We’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that,” Trump said.


The EB-5 program is “full of nonsense, make-believe, and fraud,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the reporters. “It was a way to get a green card that was low priced.”

The bipartisan EB-5 program offers family packages of green cards to investors who merely loan $1 million to companies that create as few as 10 temporary jobs. The green cards can later be traded in for citizenship.

The E-5 program is capped at around 10,000 green cards per year.

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