His brother also lied to border agents. Now he is campaigning against “open borders.”

Elon Musk worked illegally on a student visa and faced concerns he would be “deported” when he started life in the United States, a bombshell report revealed Saturday.

The billionaire South African-born immigrant also admitted in an email that he “had no legal right to stay in the country” when he ditched his studies and founded a company which he later sold for more than $300 million, The Washington Post reported. His brother was also here illegally, committing what one expert called “fraud upon entry.”

The revelation comes after Musk, the Tesla, X, SpaceX and Starlink CEO went all-in on supporting Donald Trump and repeatedly accused Democrats of trying to flood the country with immigrants who cross the border illegally, a conspiracy theory which has become mainstream in the Republican party. Bloomberg called him “X’s biggest promote of anti-immigrant conspiracies.”

      • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        2 months ago

        Seize his ill gained assets to pay slave reparations against his blood emerald family history and holdings! Prove that the South has changed and Republicans and Conservatives are not Confederates still fighting for slavery! The bible says to pay back seven times for what has been stollen and to cut the hand off the thief! It says to stone the adulterer while this unmarried man has children with many women out of wedlock and advocates for others to do so. Who dares to follow a man that surrounds himself with a corporate drug culture. This is the leader you follow, marching to the beat of the hawker of Chinese bibles while claiming to support american jobs…

        I could do this for days…

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 months ago

        Hair transplants don’t come from other people. They just rearrange follicles the baldy already has.

  • Silverseren@fedia.ioOP
    66·
    2 months ago

    I’m posting this one rather than the Washington Post article directly because that one’s behind a paywall. There’s still a link to it in this article if you do have personal access.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    581·
    2 months ago

    Imagine if they backdated the penalty and said “Ok, so all you earned since then it’s now government property and your ass is going to prison, thank you very much.”

  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
    49·
    2 months ago

    Elon Musk worked illegally on a student visa and faced concerns he would be “deported” when he started life in the United States, a bombshell report revealed Saturday.

    The frustrating thing about reading these things is always the lack of empathy from those who have a first hand understanding on the matter.

    • sneakyEnglish
      121·
      2 months ago

      My personal conspiracy theory is Elon is a Russian spy. If that turns out to be true then he wouldn’t really have a first hand understanding since the FSB would find a way to fix his papers if needed.

      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        Bruh Russia has trouble keeping the lights on and is turning to North Korea for help. I doubt its any kind of kompromat because he clearly has no shame, and seems to revel in evading consequences. To me he’s the type of clown who needs to be in the mix (mixie as the kids say), and he’s getting it, cause look how many people are talking about him. He is just a rich dipshit with stunted growth because he rarely hears no, while people will generally accept his commands. This is just a Kick streamer from the VCR era with substantially more funding.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    40·
    2 months ago

    Musk is proving to be not the kind of immigrant we want in this country. Next we are going to find out he has been eating peoples pets and geese.

    • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Don’t use big words. They don’t understand complex arguments.

      Watch:

      Deport the illegal African that stole American jobs!

      This is easy to understand and plays on preconceptions. Who says Trump can’t teach us all something useful.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
        31·
        2 months ago

        We drove an hour to a restaurant that we’d accidentally found to be awesome earlier this year. It’s out in the styx a bit. I joked with my partner (who is obviously from another country when you hear her speak, plus non-white) that she should stand up and declare that she’s an immigrant and she’s voting for Harris. It’s sad that that’s a funny joke because it implies that we both know that we were likely in the presence of at least a few racists. The food was excellent, however.