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

submitted 11 months 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 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

~~was~~ is

FTFY

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ELON MUSK IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If he were deported I’d laugh my ass off

[–] eccentric@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The rules are not for the rich.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

"That's so eccentric"

[–] eccentric@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's me.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Ha! What a coincidence.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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