If EB-5 were just a scandal involving deliberately poor government oversight, get-rich-quick schemers, and a dead former state official made fall guy, it would still be reason enough to question the Senate-worthiness of the governor who sunk South Dakota into…
Posts tagged as “immigration”
U.S. Senate candidate Stace Nelson won the endorsement of right-wing anti-immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) this week: "America faces a dire threat from illegal immigration, illegal immigrant employers, and corrupt DC politicians eager to change our laws to…
Illegitimate U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth is working her donors again, adopting a Tea Party meme comparing food stamp recipients to animals. She doesn't really believe that; she's just looking for liberal media outrage to fuel her image as some…
Quota, Competition, Scrutiny to Squelch Visa Investment in South Dakota? Bob Mercer posts the agenda for the Legislature's first real hearing on the Governor's Office of Economic Development and the EB-5 visa investment program. On Friday at 8 a.m., the…
EB-5 promoter Ali Jahangiri is doing damage control in South Dakota. Mr. Jahangiri defended the EB-5 visa investment program in an interview with SDPB's Steve Zwemke Tuesday. The Aberdeen American News gave him inches in Friday's paper to rebut U.S.…
The EB-5 visa program that is blowing up in South Dakota was supposed to end last year. But Congress and the President extended it through Fiscal Year 2015 last year with Senate Bill 3245. The Senate passed it by unanimous…
While Pat Powers shouts with capital letters to distract us from his embarrasing silence on the GOED/SDRC/EB-5/Benda/Rounds investigations, I'm reading various documents relating to the case. Among them is a perhaps trivial remark that speaks volumes about the attitude of…
In what is likely a long-planned response to the GOED/EB-5/Rounds/Benda scandal (anyone ready to come up with a -gate name for this story?), Marion Michael Rounds is now launching Operation Plausible Deniability. He tells David Montgomery that helping foreigners buy…