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TIL that Elon Musk was an illegal immigrant (gizmodo.com)
submitted 11 hours 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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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

"That's so eccentric"

[-] eccentric@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

It's me.

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

Ha! What a coincidence.

[-] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 6 points 6 hours ago

If he were deported I’d laugh my ass off

[-] eccentric@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

The rules are not for the rich.

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

~~was~~ is

FTFY

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago

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

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

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

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

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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

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

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