Todd Interests purchased an idyllic Texas state park by using a loan from a regional business center specializing in Chinese EB-5 investors, which would reportedly crush small businesses and rob Texans of a nearby recreational center.
GOP Sens. Mitt Romney and Rob Portman joined with five Democrats Tuesday to allow President Joe Biden’s amnesty chief to get an up-or-down confirmation vote on the Senate floor.
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used his government job in 2011 to green-light a citizenship-for-sale swamp scheme that included top Democrats, Chinese investors, and $141 million.
A proposed expansion of the EB-5 green-card program should not be included in the coronavirus recovery bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Thursday evening.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is using the coronavirus recovery bills to dramatically expand the award of EB-5 green cards to wealthy Chinese if they lend money to U.S. real estate investors and other companies, according to several activists and Politico magazine.
The House quietly passed a bill on Dec. 3 to cracks open a faster route for wealthy Chinese to buy their way into U.S. citizenship by lending money to the U.S. real estate industry.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is throwing a flag on the stealth push by technology investors to expand the unregulated U.S.-India outsourcing economy.
The House will vote Tuesday on a bill that would give wealthy Chinese lenders a fast-track to American green cards and citizenship.
House and Senate Republicans developed a consensus reform of the EB-5 visa-buying program — but two New York lobbying groups are using Democratic allies to block the reform, says Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The scandal-plagued EB-5 visa, which allows foreign investors and their families to essentially buy U.S. citizenship, is continuing to be funded by the Republican-controlled Congress.
Five companies involved in Vermont’s Jay Peak ski and water park development reached a $225,000 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday as part of the ongoing EB-5 “golden visa” fraud case against the development’s owner, according to a report by Law 360.
Prosecutors are reportedly looking into a $285 million loan made by Deutsche Bank to Jared Kushner’s family real estate business.
Jared Kushner’s family business has reportedly been subpoenaed by New York federal prosecutors over its use of an investment-for-immigration program, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The huge infrastructure project in question is the approximately 2,000-mile-long wall along the United States’ southern border with Mexico. This project has been estimated to cost somewhere between $10-20 billion. While the project is supported by many Americans, it’s not a burden the American taxpayer is going to want to shoulder, or a project we should financially burden our ally and neighbor with.
The outgoing Obama administration has raised the upfront investment required to get citizenship via the fraud-wracked EB-5 visa program from $500,000 to $1.35 million.
Bloomberg reported Monday that Trump Bay Street, a 50-story apartment complex being built in Jersey City, is being funded through a controversial immigration program known as EB-5, in which foreigners receive a two-year visa in exchange for investing at least $500,000 in the U.S., with enhanced opportunities for permanent residency.
