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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-gol...President Donald Trump on Friday rolled out a version of his administration’s long-promised gold card, a $1 million fast-track for wealthy foreigners to live and work in the United States.
It was not immediately clear whether the gold card replaces the existing EB-5 visa, which has long been used as a $800,000 fast-lane for the wealthy, or if it creates a new visa category. Legal experts and immigration attorneys have said the president cannot create a new visa category without Congress. Trump suggested could be used to lower taxes and pay down the federal debt.
“We were taking in the bottom quartile,” Lutnick said of the existing visa program. “We are going to stop doing that. We are going to only take extraordinary people at the very top, instead of people trying to take the jobs from Americans.”
Another type of visa — the “Trump Platinum Card” — could also soon be available. This one, according to the government website, would cost $5 million and allow its holders to spend up to 270 days in the United States without being taxed on non-U.S. income. Trump, however, made no mention of it on Friday.
Just what we need - more rich people who don't pay taxes. On the other hand, I can see how the deal might interest the occasional Russian oligarch or Chinese mega-businessman.
In addition to targeting undocumented immigrants, the Trump administration has curtailed legal pathways such as the Temporary Protected Status program and humanitarian parole.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/19/politics/trump-... 65,000 H-1B visas are granted annually, with another 20,000 reserved just for people who hold advanced degrees from US higher education institutions. Demand for the visa often exceeds the supply, triggering a lottery system.
Many companies use H-1B visas to help fill their workforces. But tech is the sector most commonly associated with H-1Bs. Tech firms big and small say they need the H-1B program to hire trained talent that they can’t find at home. The H-1B visa is a work visa that’s valid for three years and can be renewed for another three years. Economists have argued the program allows US companies to maintain competitiveness and grow their business, creating more jobs in the US. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive action on Friday that would impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — an effort to curb overuse of the program, a White House official told CNN.
Ya know, there are lots of smart, educated Americans, but the fact that doctors in hospitals as well as some of the brightest in IT were born outside the US. Keep them out and we may find our country's services run by the best of the mediocre. If poorly educators want jobs, there are plenty of fruit stand, dish-washing and meat-packing jobs lately opened up.
We are a country built by immigrants for the benefit of the spawn of previous immigrants. People should be careful what they wish for.
Jeff
