How many of the 10,000 successful primary applicants for EB-5 visas are buying US residency with stolen money? More worryingly, how many of them are purchasing entry to the US in order to subvert it from within? Answering these questions requires transparency as to the source of the money involved, and the property that it’s buying. Any efforts to answer them are therefore clearly doomed while Trump remains president, thanks to his opposition to efforts to shine light into the inner workings of the economy.

