"Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of Former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate."

#Trump #immigrants #visas #Europe #NSS #ElonMusk #FreeSpeech
/2

"Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US 'golden visa' for $1m, and trailed a 'platinum' version for $5m.

'A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,' Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media."

~ Marina Dunbar

#Trump #immigrants #visas
/4

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…

Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown

Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxes

^{Marina Dunbar (The Guardian)}

"An official government webpage promises US residency 'in record time' with the new 'Trump Gold Card' – once applicants have paid a $15,000 processing fee to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), passed a background check and paid up $1m."

#Trump #immigrants #visas
/5

"Tourists to the United States would have to reveal their social media activity from the last five years, under new Trump administration plans.

The mandatory new disclosures would apply to the 42 countries whose nationals are currently permitted to enter the US without a visa, including longtime US allies Britain, France, Australia, Germany and Japan."

~ Chris Michael

#Trump #visas #tourists #FreeSpeech
/6

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan

Plan would apply to countries not currently required to get visas to the US, including Britain and France

^{Chris Michael (The Guardian)}

"In a notice published on Tuesday, the US Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) said it would also require any telephone numbers used by visitors over the same period, and any email addresses used in the last decade, as well as face, fingerprint, DNA and iris biometrics. It would also ask for the names, addresses, birthdates and birthplaces of family members, including children."

#Trump #visas #tourists #FreeSpeech
/7

"Nobody is coming here. Canadian tourism to the US has gone down 18 percent, and those staying in the Western Hemisphere are going to South America, Central America, or the Caribbean instead. Europeans aren’t coming here. Asians are going to Europe. As of September, we were set to lose out on somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 billion in tourism bucks this year. …

Shithole country status: activated."

#Trump #tourists #Europe #Asia #LatinAmerica
/8

~ Evan Hurst

wonkette.com/p/nobody-wants-to…

Nobody Wants To Come To Donald Trump’s Sh*thole Country

Not anybody who matters, anyway.

^{Evan Hurst (Wonkette)}

"The Danish Defense Intelligence Service released a new report that warns the United States can no longer be counted on not to use military force against its own allies.

'The United States uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will, and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies,' the report said."

#Trump #Europe #NSS #tourists #travel #NATO
/9

morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…

Pam Bondi Is Low-Key Defying Federal Judges Over DQ’d US Attorneys

INSIDE: Alina Habba ... Lindsey Halligan ... Abrego Garcia

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}