According to WatchDog.org Minnesota, the business plan for the North American High Speed Rail Group's Twin Cities to Rochester private bullet train route included information indicating a New EB-5 visa center [was] to help finance proposed high-speed rail line.
We've posted that business plan here.
And if one visits the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development's EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program page, you'll find links to three regional centers:
The organizers of a regional center seeking the “Regional Center” designation from USCIS can find more detailed information on the process and requirements at the USCIS website. The following Regional Centers have been approved or have approval pending by the USCIS to facilitate investment in Minnesota (Disclaimer: The listing of these organizations does not imply endorsement):
- North Dakota/Northwest Minnesota EB-5 Regional Center
- International Creative Capital of Minnesota
- Liberty Minnesota Regional Center
Here's a screenshot from the page, with our pointer on the final link, that of the EB-5 visa center connected with the high-speed rail project:
As readers can see, highlighting the link caused the URL for the Liberty Minnesota Regional Center to float in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Click on link from the Minnesota DEED page, and here's what you see at the top of your screen:
That's a change from what visitors saw back on November 25, 2015 when we posted this screenshot in our post, Funding the private bullet train: Liberty Minnesota Regional Center website suspended:
In short, the page isn't looking any better than it did in November. The snazzy coat rack was a nice touch.
Bluestem Prairie hopes that Minnesota DEED contacts the Liberty Minnesota Regional Center folks for an updated link and site--presuming one exists--because this sort of link to nowhere really doesn't build confidence in anybody's ability to raise money and construct an elevated 84-mile high-speed-rail line, with or without public funding.
Image: The Snowpiercer. It's fast, it's furious--and it's fiction, if you know what we mean.
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