By American Renaissance | Created at 2025-03-20 22:52:03 | Updated at 2025-04-05 12:15:35
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Posted on March 20, 2025
Ian Hanchett, Breitbart, March 19, 2025
During a portion of an interview that took place on Tuesday and was aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump argued that the gold card visa program he’s pushing for will be “much more popular” than the EB-5 visa program and will help with debt and stated “generally, people that can pay $5 million are going to be job producers,” and the visa will also be bought by companies to hire immigrants who are top graduates from top schools.
Host Laura Ingraham said, “The EB-5 visas, you’ve spoken about them and the fraud and abuse of that process over years. They’re basically immigrant investment visas, $800,000, you can get a fast track to a green card, you don’t have to speak English, you don’t have to have a special skill. But it’s very popular. {snip}”
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Ingraham then asked, “{snip} But, a $5 million investment from a foreigner coming into the United States, why should our citizenship be purchased for any amount of money, especially given the fact that you’re America first, given the types of people who have $5 million to throw down for a visa or for a permanent residency?”
Trump answered, “That’s why, because I’m America first. Because, at $5 million, you’re getting a lot of things {snip}”
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