Elbahrain.net The richest person on the planet was standing a short distance from the US-Mexico border, fiddling with the brim of his black cowboy hat.
Elon Musk declared, “As a citizen of the United States, I am fervently pro-immigration. I think we should let everyone in the nation who is honest, hardworking, and will be a contributor to the United States. I also think we need a much enlarged legal immigration system.”
However, Musk stated that boundaries are also necessary in the Eagle Pass, Texas, video from September 2023.
“On the same vein, if someone is breaching the law, we likewise should not be letting them stay in the nation,” he declared. “That is not logical. There is a purpose for the law.
Since that journey to the border about a year ago, Musk’s criticisms of illegal immigration have taken center stage in his online persona. Additionally, he is becoming a more influential figure in the discussion of the subject, particularly in light of his massive following on Twitter and his 2022 takeover, which is now known as X.
A prominent theme of the August 12th talk Musk had on X with former President Donald Trump was immigration, which is a hot topic among voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
The internet billionaire regularly shares messages promoting conspiracy theories on his more than 195 million X followers, which contend that the Biden administration has purposefully permitted undocumented immigrants to enter the country in order to obtain political advantage. Posts endorsing more legal immigration to the US and discussing his personal experience as an immigrant are also frequently seen.
However, it is much less common to hear Musk discuss a portion of his family’s immigration history that his younger brother has related in a number of interviews. This anecdote raises concerns about the billionaire tech tycoon’s own immigration status during the time he was founding his first business in the United States.
BACA JUGA : “We were illegal aliens,” claims Kimbal Musk.
upon turning eighteen, gaining citizenship there via his Canadian mother. Many biographies and profiles about him that have been released in the last few years claim that he had an adventurous spirit from an early age and intended to immigrate to the United States.
Musk arrived in the US for his junior year at the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 as a transfer student, and that was more over thirty years ago. He has now created a number of well-known Silicon Valley firms. He currently serves as the chairman and chief technology officer of X, the CEO of SpaceX, and the CEO of Tesla Motors. His estimated net worth by Forbes is close to $270 billion, which puts him at the top of the magazine’s list of living billionaires.
However, his initial business had modest beginnings.
Like his younger brother Kimbal Musk, who was also a cofounder of the startup that put them both on the path to success in the US, he has talked about the startup’s early days in a number of lectures and interviews.
Musk relocated to Palo Alto, California, in 1995 with the intention of enrolling in Stanford University’s Ph.D. program. However, according to Walter Isaacson’s 2023 biography, Musk decided he would rather concentrate on starting a business with Kimbal and profit from the growing dotcom sector soon after the school year began.
Speaking in 2013 at the Milken Institute Global Conference, an annual event that brings together thought leaders and business executives, the brothers provided information they frequently give about how they keep their living expenses down by living at their office and dining at Jack in the Box.
“Renting the office was less expensive than renting an apartment. Elon Musk recounted, “So we just rented the office, slept at the office, and showered at the YMCA,” to the audience’s amusement.
The brothers also touched on a subject they have talked about less in public during the 2013 event: their immigration status at the time the firm was founded.
Their early online city guide and mapping tool, launched in early 1996, received a $3 million boost from venture capitalists. According to Kimbal Musk’s account, which was captured in a 2013 event video that was uploaded on the Milken Institute’s YouTube channel, the investors were taken aback very quickly.
Kimbal Musk remembered, “They recognized that we were illegal aliens when they did fund us.”
“Well…” Elon Musk chimed in.
“Yes, we were,” retorted Kimbal Musk.
Elon Musk can be seen chuckling in the video of his comments when he offered an alternative interpretation: “It was a gray area, I would say.”
Elon Musk made no mention of clarification, thus it is unclear what he meant to imply by that description. The Musk brothers have not replied to requests from CNN for comment regarding the exchange, nor to stories from The Los Angeles Times and the tech website Gizmodo that quoted it earlier this year.
The type of visas they had when starting the business and at other times are not mentioned in other publicly available accounts or in summaries of the billionaire entrepreneur’s biography. These are crucial details that would have indicated what conditions they would have needed to fulfill in order to keep their legal status in the US.
