Complaints about the EB-5 visa program are legitimate, but the constr

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It is true that the EB-5 visa program — by which foreign investors essentially buy green cards for themselves and their families by pouring $500,000 or $1 million into the U.S. economy — needs fixing.

It is true that the map New York used to get the swath of the city that would become Hudson Yards to qualify for the program is comically gerrymandered, bending over backward to link the far West Side of midtown Manhattan to public housing developments in Harlem in order to theoretically lure capital to an economically distressed area.

Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-hudson-20190421-rrllu6zwdjhrrjiyrgauc4hiqm-story.html