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The Kushners and their golden visas

They are using White House connections to entice Chinese investors and promising them green cards

Jared Kushner
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In this Monday, Nov 14, 2016, file photo, Jared Kushner, son-in-law of of President-elect Donald Trump walks from Trump Tower, in New York. Photo: AP|PTI

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The Kushner family has been caught in a shameless act of name-dropping. It has been highlighting its White House connections to entice wealthy Chinese investors and promising them green cards in return under a special government visa program. That’s pretty bad. But it’s also a scandal that Congress allows real estate developers to use the American immigration system to pad their profits.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser, is officially no longer managing his family’s businesses, but he still benefits from many of them. His sister Nicole Meyer was in Beijing and Shanghai this past weekend seeking investors for

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