{"id":1369820,"date":"2022-03-10T18:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369820"},"modified":"2022-03-10T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T23:06:31","slug":"fundraiser-for-alabamas-katie-britt-linked-to-program-that-sells-u-s-citizenship-to-rich-foreign-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fundraiser-for-alabamas-katie-britt-linked-to-program-that-sells-u-s-citizenship-to-rich-foreign-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser for Alabama&#039;s Katie Britt Linked to Program that Sells U.S. Citizenship to Rich Foreign Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffundraiser-for-alabamas-katie-britt-linked-to-program-that-sells-u-s-citizenship-to-rich-foreign-nationals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1369820&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The fundraiser helping Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt raise money from big-dollar donors has ties to a visa program that effectively sells a pathway to naturalized American citizenship to wealthy foreign nationals who invest in United States real estate, Breitbart News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, fundraiser to former \u201cNever Trump\u201d Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) Kim Kaegi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/08\/alabamas-katie-britt-surrounds-herself-with-never-trumpers-allies-of-anti-trump-former-sen-bob-corker\/\">organized a fundraiser<\/a> for Britt that included\u00a0Corker\u2019s former Chief of Staff Todd Womack, former Corker staffer Brent Wiles, and Butler Snow lobbyist Mandy Young, who previously donated to former Democrat Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In addition to Kaegi\u2019s deep ties to the failed \u201cNever Trump\u201d movement, she previously <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160814204105\/https:\/\/www.lcrcapital.com\/lcr-team\/\">worked<\/a> as the managing director of LCR Capital Partners \u2014 a firm that facilitates wealthy foreign nationals and their family members into securing green cards by claiming to invest in U.S. real estate.<\/p>\n<p>The EB-5 visa program allows wealthy foreign nationals to claim to invest at least $900,000 in United States development projects in order to receive green cards for themselves and their family, with eventual pathways to American citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign EB-5 investor\u2019s only requirement is to claim to have created ten U.S. jobs and revitalize \u201cdistressed\u201d areas. Those areas, though, are often in wealthy zip codes to build luxury shopping centers and condos for the wealthiest of Americans.\u00a0The program effectively sells American citizenship to the highest foreign bidders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Breitbart News has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/19\/coronavirus-chinese-elite-may-win-more-u-s-citizenship-for-investment-visas-despite-scandals\/\">reported<\/a>,\u00a010,000 foreign nationals and their families are allowed to enter the U.S. every year on the EB-5 visa. The overwhelming majority of EB-5 visas are rewarded to China\u2019s elite \u2014 driving a migration of rich Chinese to cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Tucker Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/20\/tucker-carlson-eb-5-visa-money-laundering-scheme-selling-path-to-u-s-citizenship-for-chinese-nationals\/\">has previously<\/a> called the EB-5 visa program \u201cnothing more than a money-laundering scheme\u201d where \u201ca few people get rich by selling a path to [American] citizenship for Chinese nationals and their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though proponents claim the EB-5 visa program helps enrich underserved American communities by bringing in foreign capital, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/29\/eb-5-visa-program-helping-to-build-luxury-florida-condos-for-wealthy\/\">program is often used<\/a> to build luxury condos and apartment buildings \u2014 an operation that Kaegi\u2019s former employer boasts of.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20185538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-10-at-4.28.51-PM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Screenshot via LCR Capital Partners<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), running against Britt in the GOP primary for the open Alabama Senate seat, has long slammed the EB-5 visa program as legalized corruption. Last year, for instance, Brooks sought to shut the program down altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EB-5 program is fraught with abuse,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/brooks.house.gov\/media-center\/news-releases\/congressman-mo-brooks-submits-amendment-defund-citizenship-buying-program\">Brooks said<\/a> at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>It is nothing more than a citizenship buying program used overwhelmingly by wealthy and well-connected Chinese nationals<\/strong>. In fact, most qualifying investments end up supporting real estate projects in affluent urban areas, not in economically distressed cities as the program originally intended. This program is one of many U.S. immigration programs that do little to benefit America, and it should be eliminated. <strong>American citizenship should not be for sale<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Britt is the former president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Business Council of Alabama. Trump\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr.,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1398405799605522432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1398405799605522432%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F05%2F29%2Fthe-alabama-liz-cheney-chamber-of-commerce-lobbyist-mulls-senate-bid-against-trump-backed-mo-brooks%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">previously called<\/a>\u00a0her \u201cthe Alabama Liz Cheney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has been endorsed by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Barry Moore (R-AL), Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rand Paul (R-KY), Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), and the National Association for Gun Rights, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican primary in the race is on May 24.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraiser helping Alabama Republican Senate candidate Katie Britt raise money from big-dollar donors has ties to a visa program that effectively sells a pathway to naturalized American citizenship to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}