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TIL that Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~was~~ is

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin 3 points 1 month ago

Oh of course, silly me forgot to take that into account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If he were deported I’d laugh my ass off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rules are not for the rich.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ELON MUSK IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Doesn’t matter now.

[–] [email protected] 7 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".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"That's so eccentric"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ha! What a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 1 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have seen romanians complain about romanian tourists visiting other countries so thats not too weirf