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

submitted 1 week 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 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~was~~ is

FTFY

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ELON MUSK IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Doesn’t matter now.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If he were deported I’d laugh my ass off

[–] eccentric@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rules are not for the rich.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"That's so eccentric"

[–] eccentric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's me.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ha! What a coincidence.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week 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

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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