Immigration Reform - Trump Gold Card (and Platinum coming soon)

More Trump 'math'

Donald Trump signed two executive orders on September 19, 2025, to impose new visa fees that he said would be used to reduce taxes and pay down debt.

Now saying the new H1-B visas will be limited to 85,000/year.
$100,000 x 85,000 = $8,500,000,000 ($8.5 billion)
2025 monthly deficit is around $300,000,000,000 ($300 billion)
Not even a dent..

Add in $100K/year for H1-B visas.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “all big companies” are on board. Originally Posted by RX792P

I understand that he is likely right about that, at least with respect to some large companies.

But not for reasons that should please most of us, in my opinion.

Aren't some big players likely to be willing to eat the $100K assessment for each of their very high-value employees if they judge that they will, over the long run, face less competition from startups and smaller firms that can't comfortably afford that cost burden? Shouldn't we want as many as possible of the world's best and brightest to come to America and help build the AI and high-tech future we envision?

If so, I think we should want more, not fewer, awards of H-1B visas.

What we’re talking about here is a wage based merit system. Where the primary criteria is whether you can pay or not. The system seems rife with abuses and corruption. How much do you want to bet that the sons and daughters of wealthy parents will be able to get visas and more qualified researchers or doctors or teachers will not.

Learning from Trump's legal tactics

A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an immigration raid at his business on Sept. 9. The claim names the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Border Patrol, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as defendants.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-new...wash-ice-raid/

So the people walking over the US border are on the Zinc Card?