Khan shuts down his website

christiefan915 said:
OIC. The conspiracy theory that he's going to rake in money from illegal immigrants... based on a program created during the G. H. W. Bush administration. Man, how shady is that.

EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program

USCIS administers the EB-5 Program. Under this program, entrepreneurs (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) are eligible to apply for a green card (permanent residence) if they:

  • Make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States; and
  • Plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.
This program is known as EB-5 for the name of the employment-based fifth preference visa that participants receive.

Congress created the EB-5 Program in 1990 to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors. In 1992, Congress created the Immigrant Investor Program, also known as the Regional Center Program. This sets aside EB-5 visas for participants who invest in commercial enterprises associated with regional centers approved by USCIS based on proposals for promoting economic growth.


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WASHINGTON — The easiest way to gain entry into the United States is not to walk across the border in the dead of night. It is to write a check.

A visa process enacted by Congress in 1990 to create jobs and pump billions of dollars into the economy has evolved into a program that federal investigators and some prominent lawmakers say has become a risk to national security and an easy mark for abuse, particularly from China.

The program, called EB-5, allows wealthy foreign investors, for a price ranging from $500,000 to more than $1 million, to put themselves on a path to United States citizenship. The money must be used to finance a business in this country and eventually employ — directly or indirectly — at least 10 American workers in economically depressed areas.

But EB-5 has been the subject of increasing scrutiny since investigators uncovered numerous cases of fraud, discovered individuals with possible ties to Chinese and Iranian intelligence using fake documents and learned that international fugitives who have laundered money had infiltrated the program.

“It’s no secret that the program has long been riddled with corruption and national security vulnerabilities,” said Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and a frequent critic of the program.


A number of Democrats echo his criticism, in large part because while most visa applicants must meet education or work requirements, the primary requirement for the EB-5 program is a “lawful source of investment income,” one Department of Homeland Security memo said.

“I don’t believe that America should be selling visas and eventually citizenship,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who wants to terminate a part of the program that allows foreign applicants to invest through regional development centers that pool investor money. “The right to immigrate should not be for sale.”

The Department of Homeland Security, led by Secretary Jeh Johnson, said it was taking steps to address the issues raised by senators like Mr. Grassley and Ms. Feinstein. “The secretary intends to do all he can within his legal authority to do so,” said Marsha Catron, a spokeswoman for the department.

The foreign investor visa has defenders. One is Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, along with some in the Obama administration who say it has delivered billions of dollars into the American economy: $8.7 billion and 35,140 jobs since Oct. 12. But federal auditors have found that in many cases, those numbers are “not valid and reliable.”

Supporters of the EB-5 program, including real estate developers, spent as much as $3 million to help defeat legislation sponsored by Mr. Grassley and Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, intended to address fraud and national security concerns.

Mr. Schumer, who opposed the Grassley-Leahy legislation, said he supported national security and fraud reforms to the EB-5 program.

New criticism of the program surfaced recently when a former federal investigator, Taylor Johnson, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said she was fired after raising questions about the vetting of individuals involved in a development project in Las Vegas. She filed a complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board, a quasi-judicial agency that protects whistle-blowers, saying she was fired because she exposed national security concerns. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Ms. Johnson’s termination was unrelated to her EB-5 investigation.

But her accusations have prompted investigations by the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency that protects federal employees from reprisal, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General.

Foreign investors can gain green cards by investing $1 million in a new business or $500,000 through one of nearly 800 regional development centers across the country that pool EB-5 money and are certified by the federal government. Most EB-5 visa seekers — about 95 percent — invest through these regional centers, which are largely unregulated. In some cases, the investors can also gain citizenship.

The program has grown rapidly, to nearly 9,000 conditional visas last year, of which 80 percent were issued to Chinese investors, from 64 EB-5 visas in 2003. Investigators have found that security risks have risen rapidly with the growth.

A Government Accountability Office report released in August found that the agency could not be sure that money used for the visas was not coming from “the drug trade, human trafficking or other criminal activities.”

Officials at Homeland Security Investigations, a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said they were concerned that those who prepare overseas documents “may try to use increasingly sophisticated methods to circumvent” the program. In a 2013 memo, the agency suggested that the EB-5 regional center program end because “there are no safeguards that can be put in place that will ensure the integrity” of the regional center model.


An internal review by the fraud detection office at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services found numerous fraudulent documents when it conducted a random sampling of pending visa applications. Officials at the agency said they did not have the authority to shut down a regional center that has received money from foreign investors solely because of possible criminal or national security concerns.

Court records and law enforcement documents show that several individuals with questionable backgrounds have used the program to launder money and gain entry to the United States.

Last year, the law enforcement authorities arrested a Chinese national, Zhao Shilan, who they say obtained a visa using money stolen from a grain storage house in China, where her husband, Qiao Jianjun, was director. According to court records, the couple, who had divorced in China, said they were still married. Over a period of months, they sent money stolen from the storage facilities to banks in Canada and Hong Kong. Mr. Qiao then submitted false immigration and financial documents to immigration officials. The couple later used the money they stole to buy property in Washington State, including a four-bedroom home worth nearly $700,000, according to court records.

Ms. Zhao pleaded not guilty last year. Mr. Qiao remains a fugitive and is listed on Interpol’s most wanted list.

A growing concern among United States intelligence and law enforcement officials is that foreign government agents might be trying to infiltrate the program to conduct economic espionage or gain access to technology that is banned from export.

A 2013 Homeland Security investigation found that an individual involved in the EB-5 program who was later arrested in connection with exporting electronics to Iran had ties to Iranian intelligence operatives who might try to abuse the programs to enter the United States.

Officials from Citizenship and Immigration Services acknowledged that the EB-5 program has had problems, but they said the agency had made a number of changes to address them, including shutting down 35 troubled centers since 2014.

And Homeland Security officials said they were being more proactive in tracing the sources of foreign investor income, including establishing working relationships with Chinese government officials and conducting overseas visits to verify applicants’ sources of income.

Mr. Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was not convinced the changes were enough.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/1...te-a-check-and-get-a-visa-draws-scrutiny.html
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Big money changes hands, green cards are handed out and vetting of applicants is practically nonexistent.

If you're an Islamist lawyer, what's not to like about the EB5 program?
 
:rolleyes: Looks like Khan needs to work a little harder for "his people."

Top 20 EB-5 Visa Countries - 2014

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Darth Hussein Omar said:
But we're not supposed to talk about that lol. And we're really really not supposed to draw any inferences from it.

I'm inclined to think the DNC knew all about Khan, but they were banking on him being unassailable because of the Gold Family thing.

Think about it: would you use the death of your kid to make a political statement? I wouldn't. I don't care who it was for or against. I would wager that the DNC got turned down by other Muslim Gold Families. But Khan was willing to do it because of his *business* interest in immigration.

And I think Khan made the same miscalculation---which explains why he buried his website.

And liberals can spare the faux outrage. They know better than anyone how politics works. Look what they did to Bernie's people. When Khan injected himself into presidential politics, he became fair game.
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I'd go one step further he needs to be investigated right along with Hitlery for their ties to the house of Saud and the death cult of Wahhab, in all likelihood Khizr helped finance his own sons death along with thousands of other US soldiers who died in OIF whom nobody talks about because they aren't muslim.
 
NOVA said:
Trumps comments about Khan's wife not saying anything and musing she might not be allowed to say anything, was just the truth....

Its amazing how the libs manufactured that simple comment into an attack and the toll its taken on Trump.....its genius....its how the big leagues play politics

and Trump is in the minor leagues at best.....

Now its how he said "if I don't win, the election is rigged"....which is a total lie but watch this grow into a crisis the same way.....

How Trump said "All Muslims should not be allowed in the country".....another lie, one of omission....leaving out the part about "until see can figure out whats going on"....

another stoke of genius by the Democrats.....Trumps learning what big league politics is all about...ie......its not how you play the game, its only about winning.....
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Nice try. Trump always adds qualifiers to his comments after the shit hits the fan. Trump is getting worried that he has a chance to win. Watch him totally melt down this month.

This was another in a long line of business failures by Trump. He thought he'd get his money's worth in notoriety. Instead, he lost the 'Celebrity Apprentice'. He lost two (so far) golf tournaments at his golf courses. He's losing sponsorships for these tournaments.


Keep talkin Donny Boy...keep talkin............
 
Face said:
I'd go one step further he needs to be investigated right along with Hitlery for their ties to the house of Saud and the death cult of Wahhab, in all likelihood Khizr helped finance his own sons death along with thousands of other US soldiers who died in OIF whom nobody talks about because they aren't muslim.
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It's obvious the DNC baited Trump and it worked marvelously; except, for the fact Khan is involved in a lucrative aspect of immigration; he has a paper trail where he's written glowingly about Islamist style Sharia and likely has ties to Saudi Arabia.

Other than that, he was a great Muslim to use as an instrument to attack Trump on immigration lol.

I don't do know if Khan wasn't vetted at all; maybe he was vetted and the DNC didn't care; or whether he was vetted but no one said anything for fear of being labeled Islamophobic.

It was one of the three.
 
Face said:
I'd go one step further he needs to be investigated right along with Hitlery for their ties to the house of Saud and the death cult of Wahhab, in all likelihood Khizr helped finance his own sons death along with thousands of other US soldiers who died in OIF whom nobody talks about because they aren't muslim.
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Bet you weren't whining about the Saudis when the bushes were in bed with them.
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The perilous ramifications of the September 11 attacks on the United States are only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt for generations to come. This is one of many sad conclusions readers will draw from Craig Unger's exceptional book House of Bush House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. As Unger claims in this incisive study, the seeds for the "Age of Terrorism" and September 11 were planted nearly 30 years ago in what, at the time, appeared to be savvy business transactions that subsequently translated into political currency and the union between the Saudi royal family and the extended political family of George H. W. Bush.

On the surface, the claim may appear to be politically driven, but as Unger (a respected investigative journalist and editor) probes--with scores of documents and sources--the political tenor of the U.S. over the last 30 years, the Iran-Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, the birth of Al Qaeda, the dubious connection between members of the Saudi Royal family and the exportation of terror, and the personal fortunes amassed by the Bush family from companies such as Harken Energy and the Carlyle Group, he exposes the "brilliantly hidden agendas and purposefully murky corporate relationships" between these astonishingly powerful families. His evidence is persuasive and reveals a devastating story of Orwellian proportions, replete with political deception, shifting allegiances, and lethal global consequences.

Unger begins his book with the remarkable story of the repatriation of 140 Saudis directly following the September 11 attacks. He ends where Richard A. Clarke begins, questioning the efficacy of the war in Iraq in the battle against terrorism. We are unquestionably facing a global security crisis unlike any before. President Bush insists that we will prevail, yet as Unger so effectively concludes, "Never before has an American president been so closely tied to a foreign power that harbors and supports our country's mortal enemies." --Silvana Tropea

https://www.amazon.com/House-Bush-Saud-Relationship-Dynasties/dp/0743253396


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