Jared Kushner's sister courting Chinese investors an "abuse of power"?
To understand this better if any foreign national invests $500,000 into a U.S. business they can get a Green Card. This was instituted as a way out of the "Great Recession" by our government during the Obama Administration. Was this a good idea? and IS this a good idea? I think it should be revisited but just remember 300 million Chinese people (out of 1.4 billion) have money like we do here in the U.S. So, potentially a whole lot of people want to get a Green card for at least their children to be educated and to live here and to be safe. So, this is a really big deal now to consider the changing demographics here on earth. So, maybe this should be revisited when we don't have as corrupt a government as we do now here in the U.S. with Trump?
On the other hand it lessens the possibility of war with China by having so many children of the elite of China going to college here and living here. So, this is another way to look at this. Because more often than not these Children are the Children of the Governing elite of China so they would naturally protect their own from harm and war.
It's sort of the same principle of how King's married off their daughters in Europe to other kingdoms in order to avert war between their kingdoms and this often worked in the Middle ages on up until the early 1900s and beyond.
Reporters
were shunned from publicized events in China over the weekend when
Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House senior adviser Jared
Kushner, was courting Chinese investors, urging them to invest in a … 4
hours ago
Reporters
were shunned from publicized events in China over the weekend when
Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House senior adviser Jared
Kushner, was courting Chinese investors, urging them to invest in a … 4
hours ago
Reporters
were shunned from publicized events in China over the weekend when
Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House senior adviser Jared
Kushner, was courting Chinese investors, urging them to invest in a New Jersey luxury apartment complex, 1 Journal Square in Jersey City.
The lot that the Kushner Companies bought in December 2014 has been
vacant for more than a decade, and Kushner's sister was soliciting $150
million in funding for the project, reports CBS News correspondent
Jericka Duncan.
Nicole Meyer (right), Jared Kushner's sister, courted Chinese investors at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing
Cao Li/The New York Times
Javier Hernandez, the New York Times' China correspondent, was escorted
from Saturday's session at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Beijing.
"Nicole Meyer, when she stood in that room, made sure that people knew
that she was part of this Kushner family, that her brother was in the
administration," Hernandez said.
Jared
Kushner and Nicole Meyer attend RALPH LAUREN Spring 2008 Collection at
Central Park Conservatory Garden on September 8, 2007 in New York.
Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Advertisement in Chinese for 1 Journal Square in Jersey City
Jonathan Ansfield/The New York Times
For $500,000, investors could get a path to American citizenship
through the EB-5 government program, which grants green cards to
entrepreneurs who invest in U.S. enterprises.
"During the course
of this event, they displayed the president's image because they were
identifying him as a key decision maker on these so-called EB-5 visas,"
Hernandez said.
"Nicole Meyer herself said this project means a lot to me and my family," he added.
Richard Painter, a former chief White House ethics lawyer, said "this is an abuse of power and they should not be allowed."
"We can't have a situation where public officials and their families
are using those programs to enrich themselves," Painter said.
A
Kushner company spokesman said the firm "apologizes if that mention of
her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors.
That was not Ms. Meyer's intention."
But Mr. Trump's son-in-law has emerged as a major diplomatic channel between China and the Trump administration.
Kushner's personal lawyer said that Kushner "has no involvement in the
operation of Kushner Companies and divested his interests in the One
Journal Square," and that "he will recuse from particular matters
concerning the EB-5 visa program."
The EB-5 visa program was
supposed to end on April 28 until Congress passed a spending bill
extending it until September. Kushner has benefited directly from that
program before. The Trump Bay Street apartment complex, also in Jersey
City, has received $50 million in funding from EB-5 investors, most of
whom are Chinese nationals.
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