Pay $1 million and Commerce Secretary Lutnick welcomes you to America as one of the “perfect people.” Show up poor and you get fighter jets circling your coast, your tanker seized, 7,000 troops at a militarized border.
The gold card makes it official: there are two Americas now, and wealth is the visa. While Trump sells citizenship to CEOs in a White House roundtable, DHS is buying its own fleet of 737s for deportation flights, months after trying to buy engineless planes from Spirit Airlines. ICE submitted body camera footage to a federal judge weeks ago, then told a watchdog no records exist. The FBI spent years getting France to hand over an alleged Russian smuggler. Now ICE wants to deport her to Belarus, a country with no extradition treaty, where we can never get her back.
The price of citizenship is now listed. Your representatives need to hear from you: this two-tier system is the policy, not the bug. Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
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