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TIL that Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant (gizmodo.com)
submitted 1 month ago by eccentric@lemm.ee to c/itsme@lemm.ee
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21268863

The reason this is relevant is because he has spent the better part of a year complaining about “illegal immigrants” who are “invading” the country. But an old video from 2013 resurfaced on Saturday that appears to show the billionaire admitting he was at one point building his small business in the country illegally, describing it as a “gray area.”

*Edit: typo

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[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~was~~ is

FTFY

[-] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

IS

ELON MUSK IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Doesn’t matter now.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah but it only counts if you aren't white, obvs

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Musk is African-American, so he's an edge case.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Not really. He's rich, that supersedes all other things such as race.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

He's not African American and he's an illegal immigrant in the US.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

"That's so eccentric"

[-] eccentric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

It's me.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ha! What a coincidence.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

If he were deported I’d laugh my ass off

[-] eccentric@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

The rules are not for the rich.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

I know it’d never happen. But it’d be hilarious if it did

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

He thinks himself "one of the good ones". The dissonance is right up there with "the only moral abortion is my abortion".

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

I’m sure he has an E2 Visa, or probably an EB-5

The rules for immigration are different if you run a business

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