"During his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the host branded the scheme the Get Into America Express Card, mocking its explicit transactional logic and its break from decades of immigration rhetoric. This is a card that will allow wealthy foreigners to live here, Kimmel said. For a million bucks, you get legal visitor status. You get a pathway to citizenship and a presidential pardon for one major crime of your choosing."
"Kimmel suggested it marked a stark rewrite of America's self-image as a refuge for the desperate rather than a marketplace for the wealthy. It might be time to update that inscription on the Statue of Liberty, he said, offering instead: Never mind, you're poor and tired. Give us a million bucks. You're in.' Kimmel also mocked the application process itself, describing it as comically lax for a program promising the most rigorous vetting that's ever been done on new people coming to America."
A branded Gold Card offers an expedited visa pathway for foreigners who pay at least $1 million, granting legal visitor status and a pathway to citizenship. The program frames citizenship as a luxury good and recasts national identity from refuge for the desperate to a marketplace for the wealthy. The application process appears comically lax despite claims of rigorous vetting, prompting ridicule of its transactional logic. The policy generates scrutiny for both its symbolic implications and its substantive effect of privileging affluent applicants over traditional immigration principles.
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