The tragic irony is that while President Trump has moved to ramp up deportations and use the military to secure the Southern border, he wants to offer a “gold card” and a pathway to citizenship to anyone who pays $5 million to the government and is willing to invest in the U.S.

According to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, the “gold card” dreamers will “have to go through vetting, of course, to make sure they are wonderful world class, global citizens.”

“They can come to America,” he said. “The president can give them a green card, and they can invest in America, and we can use that money to reduce our deficit.” It’s the art of the deal. The move, experts say, would require the approval of Congress, but who cares?

A foreigner can buy citizenship for far less than a condo in Trump Tower. Sounds good, but how many $5 million fees does Trump expect to collect? The amount won’t mean much when compared to a federal deficit of $1.8 trillion and a national debt of $36.2 trillion and rising.

What is galling is the hypocrisy of it all. And what about immigrants who don’t have the big bucks? They are condemned to a hard-knock life. In a move blatantly abridging Fifth Amendment rights, Trump wants to create a registry for immigrants in the U.S. to submit their personal information or face fines and prison time. Immigrants who fail to register could be fined up to $5,000 and sentenced to up to six months in prison.

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