If you are an honest, hard-working individual hoping to find a better life for yourself and your family because you happen to have been born in an impoverished, famine-plagued country; or because your children are at risk from government-backed drug lords where you live; and if you possess a skill that would allow you to obtain gainful employment to support your family . . . well, I’m sorry, but you’re out of luck. Because you have, without cause or any sort of justification, been pre-judged to be a murderer, rapist, or pet-eater, and not a desirable addition to the U.S. population.

But if you have, say, $5 million to spare, regardless of your background or how you came into that amount of money . . . well, then, you are more than welcome. And here is your Gold Card Visa, compliments of Uncle Donald.

No, not that Uncle Donald! The one in the White House, who has usurped the place of the old Uncle Sam, because Sam welcomed everyone who wanted to become a legal, wage-earning, tax-paying, America-loving citizen. And that is no longer the case.

Now he’d like you to buy your way in. He thinks that enough of these so-called “golden visas” issued to wealthy emigres would substantially pay down the national debt.

I guess it never occurred to him that he could accomplish the same thing by requiring his fellow billionaires (and himself) to pay their fair share of taxes every year.

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Fortunately, our immigration laws don’t allow him to unilaterally create a new visa category. The autocracy he has built thus far is already tearing this country apart. Imagine what a bunch of imported gazillionaires would do to us.

And, judging from the initial worldwide reaction to the announcement of this latest mad scheme from Uncle Donald, there doesn’t seem to be any rush on the part of the world’s wealthiest to claim U.S. residency status. It appears as though we’re just not that desirable anymore.

Imagine that.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
3/5/25