So is Claude Taylor reliable? Because look:

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62. Actually, that 's legal if it's for a business that will create jobs in depressed areas

So here in NM, Acoma Pueblo is planning a 118 acre marijuana greenhouse - thanks to China and this program. Personally, I find this bizarro - so the Chinese will eventually own the largest marijuana greenhouse in the US - for now.

Should Congress Let Wealthy Foreigners Buy Green Cards?

Each year, America grants green cards to 10,000 rich investors, the vast majority of whom are Chinese. Is this program creating enough jobs to warrant its continuation?

The massive $20 billion Hudson Yards project is one of the nation’s biggest development efforts. When it’s completed on New York’s west side, it will have have 5,000 apartments, six skyscrapers, and pneumatic tubes for trash disposal. And one more feature of the project: It has paved the way for the green cards of about 1,200 Chinese millionaires.

How’s that? Via what’s known as the EB-5 “Immigrant Investor” program, which allows foreigners to get a green card if they invest a certain amount of money to create jobs in the United States. In effect, rich people can buy American citizenship, and that’s made it controversial in an era of wariness about immigration.

Now, Congress is looking at ways to reform the program, even as parts of it are set to expire September 30.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/should-congress-let-wealthy-foreigners-buy-citizenship/406432/