{"id":2564246,"date":"2026-02-03T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-challenges-trumps-gold-card-visa-program-5979579\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:12:55","slug":"lawsuit-challenges-trumps-gold-card-visa-program-5979579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-challenges-trumps-gold-card-visa-program-5979579\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Challenges Trump\u2019s \u2018Gold Card\u2019 Visa Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Flawsuit-challenges-trumps-gold-card-visa-program-5979579%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=2564246&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>A national university faculty group is suing to block President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cGold Card\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">visa<\/a>, a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-the-fda-working-for-drug-makers-or-drug-users\/\" title=\"Is the FDA Working for Drug Makers or Drug Users?\">expedited pathway<\/a> to permanent residency for wealthy foreigners. The suit, filed February 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was brought by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and several foreign professionals.They argue the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >programme benefits rich applicants<\/a> at the expense of merit-based candidates such as scientists, engineers, and doctors, and contend it is unlawful. A photo caption accompanying the piece shows a Trump Gold Card <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-years-later-i-made-new-discoveries-about-the-first-thanksgiving\/\" title=\"400 Years Later, I Made New Discoveries About The First Thanksgiving\">displayed<\/a> in the Oval Office as Trump speaks before signing executive orders on September 19,2025.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"top-media\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p><span>A Trump Gold Card is displayed in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump speaks before signing executive orders in Washington on Sept. 19, 2025. <\/span><span><span>Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div data-post-content=\"true\" id=\"post_content\" data-testid=\"post_content\">\n<p>A national university faculty group is suing to shut down President Donald Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;Gold Card&rdquo; visa, arguing that the new, expedited pathway to permanent residency for wealthy foreigners is unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>In a lawsuit filed Feb. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and several foreign professionals say the program benefits rich applicants at the expense of &ldquo;qualified, merit-based&rdquo; candidates, such as scientists, engineers, and doctors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AAUP sues to block Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Gold Card&#8217; visa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":2564247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19\/id5973179-GettyImages-2235780992-1080x720.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543,33651],"tags":[72880,3813,4585,3634],"class_list":["post-2564246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","category-the-western-journal","tag-gold-card-2","tag-immigration","tag-lawsuit","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/01\/19\/id5973179-GettyImages-2235780992-1080x720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564246","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\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564250,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564246\/revisions\/2564250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}