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    Elon Musk began his career working illegally in the United States before becoming a spokesperson for illegal immigration

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    Top line

    Billionaire Elon Musk, who became a fierce opponent of illegal immigration as Donald Trump’s main surrogate, and strengthened misleading complaints on the issue throughout the 2024 election cycle, launched his Silicon Valley career by working illegally, according to The Washington Post.

    Key facts

    The Post, citing associates, court records and company documents, found that Musk did not have the legal right to work in the United States when he created Zip2, a directory software company. companies sold for around $300 million 25 years ago.

    Musk, born in Pretoria, South Africa, dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University in 1995 as a foreign exchange student to work on his startup.

    Musk’s immigration status puts the company at risk of not receiving funding, according to the Post, which cites a financing agreement between Zip2 and Mohr Davidow Ventures under which Musk, his brother Kimbal and an associate had 45 days to obtain legal employment status or risk losing it. on the investment of 3 million dollars.

    Derek Proudian, a Zip2 board member who later became the company’s chief executive, told the Post that Zip2 investors did not want its founder deported and that “the Musk brothers’ immigration status was not who he should be for them to be legally employed to run the company.” a company in the United States »

    Musk acknowledged his immigration status when he founded Zip2 in a 2005 email to Tesla co-founders Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel, revealed in a lawsuit, in which he explained that he had applied to Stanford to legally remain in the United States, according to the Post.

    Representatives for X and Alex Spiro, one of Musk’s lawyers, did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment, and Musk has not yet responded to the article about X.

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    Forbes Rating

    Musk is now worth an estimate $274.7 billionmaking him the richest person in the world.

    Large number

    1,300. That’s the number of times Musk has posted about immigration and election fraud this year, including 330 in the past two months, according to Bloomberg Technologywho noted that these topics have become Musk’s most frequent and interesting posts.

    Crucial quote

    “When they funded us, they realized we were illegal immigrants,” Kimbal said in a statement. Round table 2013 alongside his brother. Elon tried to intervene before Kimbal again insisted that both brothers were immigrants at the start of Zip2. Elon responded: “I would say it was a gray area.”

    Tangent

    Musk said he was “extremely pro-immigration” and advocated for the United States to expand its immigration system so that it could “let in anyone… who is hard-working and honest and will contribute.”

    Key context

    Musk’s spread of misinformation has thrived on according to BloombergThe tech billionaire’s increase in posts about immigration and voter fraud coincides with the approach of Election Day and his support and endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Musk has echoed Trump’s misleading claims that Democrats are trying to give voting rights to illegal immigrants, saying earlier this year that “Democrats will import and legalize enough migrants to ensure permanent one-party rule over and more socialist (to a confiscatory level). ) and repressive. Despite concerns about illegal non-citizen voting, studies have found attempts to vote illegally are rare. Musk also extended his anti-immigration stance to other countries, suggesting that last year a German humanitarian group leading an immigrant rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea had been violate the sovereignty of Italywhere the rescued immigrants were released.

    Further reading

    Musk echoes right-wing claims on immigration as bipartisan Senate bill finally released: What you need to know (Forbes)

    Elon Musk attacks Germany over migrant rescue, cites ‘invasion vibes’ (Forbes)

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