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A company co-founded by presidential son Neil Bush is recruiting foreigners to invest in Texas apartment complexes in return for a coveted U.S. visa under a program initiated during his father's administration 25 years ago. The Great Texas Regional Center, which initially planned to build minor league baseball stadiums, has gathered money from more than a dozen foreigners seeking to live in the United States indefinitely under the so-called investor visa, or EB5, program. The program, established in 1990 under a law signed by President George H.W. Bush, grants green cards to foreigners who invest as little as $500,000 in...