Donald and the 5 Million Dollar Golden Ticket

 

Last night  President Donald Trump  announced his proposal to establish a Gold Card for immigration.  For the low, low cost of five million dollars an immigrant will have a path to citizenship.  

Because as we all know, five million dollars is a low bar, nearly every American has at least that much in the bank.  Why wouldn't a refugee, fleeing persecution in his own country,  living in a tent, no home, very little to eat,  also be in possession of five million dollars?  

The rising billionaire class wants a path to citizenship for their wealthy friends and Donald Trump, man of the rich people, is going to give it to them.  The question is can he legally do that?  Under the current law, he actually can do this, most likely through an Executive Order to his Attorney General but there is a catch.  The United States would have to give it back upon the Alien's permanent departure from the United States, with interest.

Under Title 8,  Chapter 12, SubChapter II states that an otherwise inadmissible alien can be admitted into our fine country if they provide a bond or other surety to the satisfaction of the Attorney General of the United States.  However, once a naturalized citizen, or permanently departed from either the country or life itself, the bond or other surety must be returned.  Oh, I don't think President Trump will be happy with that.  I think he wants to keep the five million dollars.

Here is the current and prevailing law on the matter: 

§1183. Admission of aliens on giving bond or undertaking; return upon permanent departure

An alien inadmissible under paragraph (4) of section 1182(a) of this title may, if otherwise admissible, be admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General (subject to the affidavit of support requirement and attribution of sponsor's income and resources under section 1183a of this title) upon the giving of a suitable and proper bond or undertaking approved by the Attorney General, in such amount and containing such conditions as he may prescribe, to the United States, and to all States, territories, counties, towns, municipalities, and districts thereof holding the United States and all States, territories, counties, towns, municipalities, and districts thereof harmless against such alien becoming a public charge. Such bond or undertaking shall terminate upon the permanent departure from the United States, the naturalization, or the death of such alien, and any sums or other security held to secure performance thereof, except to the extent forfeited for violation of the terms thereof, shall be returned to the person by whom furnished, or to his legal representatives. Suit may be brought thereon in the name and by the proper law officers of the United States for the use of the United States, or of any State, territory, district, county, town, or municipality in which such alien becomes a public charge, irrespective of whether a demand for payment of public expenses has been made.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 2, §213, 66 Stat. 188 ; Pub. L. 91–313, §1, July 10, 1970, 84 Stat. 413 ; Pub. L. 101–649, title VI, §603(a)(8), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 5083 ; Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title III, §308(d)(3)(A), title V, §564(f), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–617 , 3009-684.)

President Trump will either have to change Federal Law, or simply ignore the law and continue on his lawless quest to establish a monarchy.  The entrance fee to his Majesty's Kingdom?  Five million dollars.

Honey, go get my piggy bank.            

Federal Law Violation: Trump and Musk Have Violated The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, As Amended

 

Elon Musk Wields Chain Saw at Recent CPAC Conference/Reuters

The argument we most often hear from Trump supporters and his Republican congress is that the President should have the authority to make whatever changes necessary to cut fraud and waste of the agencies under his executive branch of government  The argument sounds plausible, even practical, and lots of Trump supporters have been callously cheering Elon Musk as he takes an axe to the executive branch.  

Elon Musk paraded around with a chainsaw at the CPAC Convention, an image that reinforces his slash and burn  policy of gutting agencies that provide assistance to the poor, the young, and the elderly here and abroad.  His I dare you to stop me attitude resonates poorly with many citizens, but is President Trump and by extension Elon Musk and his DOGE violating  Federal Law?  

The answer is YES, YES, and YES again if the DOGE Checks Elon Musk has promised every U.S. citizen are mailed out- those checks also violate Federal Law and by accepting those checks each of us would be complicit in that violation and could be required by Court Order to pay it back.  Here is why:

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 has been amended several times, as recently as December of 2024. Not long after being sworn in, President Trump, created DOGE for Elon Musk who then gutted several Federal Agencies, including USAID and fired thousands of USAID employees, and USAID falls under the jurisdiction of The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.

While the Act of 1961, as amended does provide the President with wide authority on funding hundreds of specific  programs stated within the law, from on how to fund those programs to the authority to transfer funding to other programs authorized under the Act. But the law prohibits the President from removing that money that has been appropriated by Congress without proper Notice and without Justification (highlights/underline are my emphasis).

SEC. 634A. ø22 U.S.C. 2394–1¿ NOTIFICATION OF PROGRAM CHANGES.—(a) None of the funds appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act (except for programs under title III or title IV of chapter 2 of part I, chapter 5 of part I, and programs of disaster relief and rehabilitation) or the Arms Export Control Act may be obligated for any activities, programs, projects, types of material assistance, countries, or other operations not justified, or in excess of the amount justified, to the Congress for obligation under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act for any fiscal year unless the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of each House of the Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such obligation. Whenever a proposed reprogramming exceeds $1,000,000 and the total amount proposed for obligation for a country under this Act in a fiscal year exceeds by more than $5,000,000 the amount specified for that country in the report required by section 653(a) of this Act, notifications of such proposed reprogrammings shall specify— (1) the nature and purpose of such proposed obligation, and (2) to the extent possible at the time of the proposed obligation, the country for which such funds would otherwise have been obligated. (b) The notification requirement of this section does not apply to the reprogramming— (1) of funds to be used for an activity, program, or project under chapter 1 of part I if the amounts to be obligated for that activity, program, or project for that fiscal year do not exceed by more than 10 percent the amount justified to the Congress for that activity, program, or project for that fiscal year;

President Trump and Elon Musk failed to provide timely notice to Congress in violation of the Act.

While notification under Section 634A is a violation, it is Section 643 that identifies the true depth Administration's violation of this Act. Under Section 643 Savings Provisions, Federal law clearly states, 

Acts not named in that subsection. SEC. 643. ø22 U.S.C. 2402¿ SAVING PROVISIONS.—(a) Except as may be expressly provided to the contrary in this Act, all determinations, authorizations, regulations, orders, contracts, agreements, and other actions issued, undertaken, or entered into under authority of any provision of law repealed by section 642(a) and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 shall continue in full force and effect until modified by appropriate authority. (b) Wherever provisions of this Act establish conditions which must be complied with before use may be made of authority contained in, or funds authorized by, this Act, compliance with, or satisfaction of, substantially similar conditions under Acts listed in section 642(a) and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 or Acts repealed by those Acts shall be deemed to constitute compliance with the conditions established by this Act. (c) Funds made available pursuant to provisions of law repealed by section 642(a)(2) and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 shall, unless otherwise authorized or provided by law, remain available for their original purposes in accordance with the provisions of law originally applicable thereto, or in accordance with the provisions of law currently applicable to those purposes. 

The Trump/Musk team violated Section 643A (a)(c) with an unauthorized removal of funds that was appropriated by Congress.  The Trump Administration will violate the law further if they send DOGE checks to every U.S. Citizen.  The funding they stripped from these programs, according to the Act, must be used for purposes in accordance with the provision of the law that the funds were originally proposed for or the current law in place for the proposed use.   

If we accept  DOGE checks from Elon Musk, we are may also be violating the Act, since we are not using the funds in accordance with the Act.  Each citizen that accepts the money may have to pay it back, with interest.  I doubt that would actually happen but who knows, anything is possible in this insane environment where the President violates the Federal law he was elected to enforce.

SourceThe Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, As Amended

The Rise of the Billionaire Empire

 "Prepare to be Assimilated. Resistance is futile." - The Borg, 

Artwork Courtesy of 3dalliance

He has littered our sky with satellites.  He has littered our roads with bot-wannabe-cars and trucks.

Now he has littered our landscape with layoffs,  infected our government institutions with the destructive virus of consolidated power, and has threatened to eliminate those who resist his ruthless, uncaring, intolerant, and most importantly, illegal actions- all in the name of exposing fraud and waste- under the banner of DOGE, his own personal agency granted to him by a false King. 

His name is Elon Musk. He is not an American Citizen,  owes no loyalty to the United States Constitution, has no history of ancestors in the United States, and has never fired a shot in defense of our great nation. He is here because he makes money here, billions of dollars of money. He is a billionaire, son of Apartheid wealth from South Africa.  He represents the opposite of everything we have tried to accomplish since our Civil War over slavery ended.  His family made their fortune off the backs of poor, black miners.  

But he is only Darth Vader. He answers to an Emperor, Donald Trump, an edict-issuing convicted felon. Trump has amazingly convinced a great number of his mostly poor, white, cultish followers, that only he, and he alone will make America great again.  His followers have foolishly, and some even might say stupidly voted  Mr. Trump back into the Presidency, based on a promise to lower the price of eggs.  

Sadly, Emperor Trump cannot keep his promise to the people to lower the price of eggs.  He has no control over Bird Flu, or any other economic impact on U.S. food prices at all. Now that the people have returned Trump to office,  he doesn't need those people any longer. The majority of his followers haven't figured this out yet.  Trump doesn't plan to ever leave the Presidency. 

But Trump will keep the promise he made to the resistance, to jail his opponents, to obtain retribution for the election he falsely believes was stolen from him.  

Trump has already kept his promise to the criminals who rioted on January 6th, injured and killed police officers, and threatened the lives of the elected officials trying to certify a fair and accurate election inside our sacred Capitol building.  Trump pardoned them all.

Trump is now attempting to keep his promise to his billionaire buddies of raising an Empire that will benefit the wealthiest 1% in our country, by stripping money away from services for the elderly, handicapped, minorities, and the poor and using those savings to provide generous tax cuts for the wealthy billionaire class.  We are witnessing the rise of the Billionaire Empire.

Mr. Musk takes it much further than even that.  He proposes to replace our laid-off public servants with artificial intelligence. Resistance is futile.  How did we go from being extremely concerned about artificial intelligence to walking arm in arm with the robots right back into our Federal buildings?

So now we must prepare, resist, and fight back against  tyranny, work to defend and strengthen our democracy. We are the majority of the 99% but our enemy owns 99 percent of the wealth in this country. Our mission is to provide facts,  direction, events, protests, commentary and guidance. The facts reveal the truth and we will shine that truth like a beacon against the rising, dark Billionaire class  Our mission is to serve you, so that we all rise together against this threat from the Oligarchs.  

Tomorrow we will begin to list resources,  review the laws, the edicts, and our constitution while tracking the reporting on the billionaire class.   -Fish