Un-freaking-believable !
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The Newport disaster was just one of several such boondoggles in areas deemed “targeted employment areas,” where the federal government ostensibly seeks to revive it by trading promises of U.S. residency in exchange for foreign investment. Established in 1997, the EB-5 visa program allows wealthy foreigners to effectively buy U.S. green cards, so long as their “investment” creates a paltry 10 American jobs.
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In her 2015 book, “Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels are Screwing America's Best and
Brightest Workers,” Michelle Malkin describes why Canada got rid of a similar cash-for-citizenship scheme (hint: it was bad
for Canadians and rife with fraud), and dives into other cases where hardworking American workers and communities have
fallen victim to the EB-5 visa travesty.
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The Center for Immigration Studies maintains a map that outlines dozens of federal, state, local, and civil cases involving EB-
5 visa scandals that have rocked towns across the country.
While some members of Congress have repeatedly called for investigation into and reform of the program, others see that the
only real fix is to completely get rid of it, as Canada has already done.
“Once you engage in green card social engineering, where you go and you take a scarce commodity of citizenship, and you
don't make it about a broad American policy … you make it about benefiting special interests,” Conservative Review’s Daniel
Horowitz explained to MMI. “Sure you could try to regulate it, but that in itself breeds corruption.”
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/meet-the-small-town-business-owners-devastated-by-a-federal-immigration-scam
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