Trump U Instructor to Illegal Immigrants: Here's How to Buy a Home

Weekly Standard ^ | 03/04/2016 | Michael Warren

[SeekAndFind]

An instructor at Donald Trump's Trump Entrepreneur Initiative—originally known as Trump University—once offered advice about how illegal immigrants can purchase homes in the United States. Real estate agent Tina Merritt wrote a blog post for the Trump Blog in April 2010 titled "Can an Illegal Immigrant Buy a Home in the United States?" Merritt explained that the answer was "yes."

Here's an excerpt from the archived blog post:

First of all, you do not have to have a social security number to buy or sell a home in the U.S. Some mortgage lenders require one; however, there is not a law requiring one. You do need to have some form of government issued identification, even if it is from another country (such as a passport or driver's license).
Those without a social security number will need an ITIN (individual taxpayer identification number) number which is issued by the IRS to foreign nationals for paying taxes on money they earn in the U.S.

Merritt noted that while it is difficult for illegal immigrants to get mortgage loans, several banks have programs designed for those immigrants.

"Lastly, it is not illegal to own real estate in the U.S. even if one is in the country illegally," she wrote. "If getting a mortgage is not an option, one can always pay cash."

The Trump Blog was marketed as an outlet for "Ideas and Opinions from Donald Trump and The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative Instructors." Some former clients of the online education company, a division of the Trump Organization, are currently suing for fraud.

Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

[MNJohnnie]

Or is it another lie like the attack on Trump U last night by “Moderator” Megan Kelly?

Better Business Bureau: Trump Right on ‘A’ Rating — Mostly

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/better-business-bureau-trump-right-rating-mostly-n527671

[HiTech RedNeck]

If he says he drives his car where he wants, I would not deduce from that, that he considers the White House lawn an appropriate place.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc56eGa32ks

[JimRed]

Skin in the game is a GOOD thing. Property ownership is skin in the game.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInterrogations

[Jane Long]

LOL! He’s finished!!! Again ;-)

[rineaux]

Correct.

Time to make a deck of cards of so called conservatives with Bill K and Lindsey G as queen of clubs and hearts.

[MplsSteve]

“Trump is NOT my choice for the nomination, but between Trump and Hillary, there really should be no questions — ABC <-— Anybody But Clinton.”

Same here.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, originally, that was one of the requirements to vote.

[VanDeKoik]

So someone asked if it is possible.

The guy answers truthfully.

So what’s the point? If he had lied, would that have made these people feel better?

Blame the idiots in congress for making it possible, and not closing the loopholes.

[qman]

Donald Trump has also lauded FDR for his control of German Americans, Italian Americans, and Japanese Americans during the WWII, restricting there movements, ultimately leading to interment camps. Isn’t this wrong, isn’t this settled aren’t we ashamed of our behavior during WWII concerning the interment of the Japanese.
How dark is heart of Donald Trump.
These are the kinds of things simple people say at the back yard BBQ, not from a presidential candidate.

[JimRed]

Building the wall is a great first step.

Amen. I've been saying that at least as long as anyone else has (out loud, in public or in print). Once the flow of new bodies is stopped we can decide who stays and who goes.

But as I previously commented, skin in the game is good.

[GBA]

I'm not sure when it began, but you can thank the Bush Administration and Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae for making sure illegal aliens could get the loans they needed to buy American.

In my time as a newbie real estate broker, I remember sitting in classes learning about the many ways and paths to ownership GuvCo said illegal aliens should be given access to.

I was, and still am, shocked to see first hand just how much the US GuvCo encouraged and facilitated illegals to "just come on in and make yourselves at home."

Insanity made policy and policy made law.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Better Business Bureau: Trump Right on ‘A’ Rating — Mostly

OK, I hate to be the one to observe the “fly in the ointment” here, but Trump is looking at one perspective and Megyn the other.

In other words, it’s not as simple as one wants to look at it.

The same NBC report you referred to tells us that :

“The BBB’s ratings are “dynamic” and are based on a constantly shifting algorithm, meaning they’re changing all the time. And over the years, the company’s rating had fallen as far as D-minus — an assessment Trump chose not to mention Sunday.”

According to Politifact:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/28/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claims-about-trump-uni/

Katherine Hutt, director of communications for the Council of Better Business Bureaus, said that as a matter of policy, they don’t provide any ratings from previous years. But the organization issued a statement that “Over the years, the company’s BBB rating has fluctuated between an A+ and a D-.”

We don’t know when the bureau might have given Trump University a top grade, but based on the Internet Archive, the last time the Better Business Bureau gave the university any rating at all was 2010, when it give it a D-minus. That assessment showed up in plenty of news articles.

That year, the New York Daily News reported that “the Better Business Bureau in January slapped a D-minus rating on Trump U., a rating now under review after Trump U. objected.”

CBS News said the same thing in an April 21, 2010, article.

And in May, 2011, the New York Times wrote “The Better Business Bureau gave the school a D-minus for 2010, its second-lowest grade, after receiving 23 complaints.”

The Washington Post had the same information in May 2011 when it reported that the New York State Attorney General was investigating the Trump Entrepreneur Institute. The Attorney General’s Office did file charges but stumbled on the grounds that the statute of limitations had passed. The matter is under appeal.

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[trisham]

I love it!

[qman]

Donald Trump said he would sent troops to kill non combatants, woman and children of terrorists!
I heard this with my own ears, this is a war crime.
Are you for this, if so you are as insane as Trump. If you are a soldier who followed such an order you would be subject to a war crimes tribunal, just like the My Lai massacre.
Get your mind right!

[Gasshog]

AIeeeeeeeeeeee! this is the End! TRUMP iS DOoMeD!

keep believing that, yeah.

[Gasshog]

TRUTH??? Ok you who want to dredge up anything and everything to attempt to hurt Trump.

Okay Trump heads a multi-billion dollar empire.

ONLY IDIOTS would presume he totally controls and has knowledge of every iota of something this big.

Yes, Im so SURE he edits or reads every BLOG of hundreds of TRUMP owned websites.

TRUE or UNTRUE.

This attack is another FAIL.

This is just another poor-aimed ineffectually attack

[rineaux]

This Clown said it. And when he speaks nitwits listen.

[Sacajaweau]

You interpret things yourself. You put it in a little box and that's NOT his message.

Alqueda, the Taliban and all those muzzie groups are famous for locating in schools, hospitals...etc.

In Syria, the rebels took over Christian towns. It's what they do.

Either you're there to win or you are not. War deaths are not on a one to one basis.