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Elon Musk, who famously rails against illegal immigrants, was just exposed for once working illegally in the United States! Here is what you need to know…
Exposed : Elon Musk once worked illegally in the United States!
As the world’s richest man, and the owner of X (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk has often spoken out against “open borders” and illegal immigrants making their way to the United States. That rhetoric increased after he publicly supported Donald Trump, not only donating millions to support his re-election, but also actively serving as his political surrogate.
That may be par for the course for the Republican Party and its Presidential candidate, but The Washington Post has just exposed the hypocrisy behind Elon Musk’s promotion of Donald Trump’s claims that “open borders” and undocumented immigrants are destroying America.
According to the excellent expose by Maria Sacchetti, Faiz Siddiqui, and Nick Miroff, at The Washington Post (WaPo), Elon Musk arrived at Palo Alto, California in 1995 on the pretext of studying at Stanford University. However, he never intended to do that at all.
In a May 2009 deposition, Musk admitted he never enrolled at Stanford. He said he called the department chair two days after the start of the semester, to say that he wasn’t going to attend classes. He then began working at Zip2 (originally called Global Link Information Network) in August or September 1995. That was illegal, according to immigration experts:
Upon not enrolling, Musk would have had to leave the country, according to legal experts and immigration laws at the time. He would not have been allowed to work.
Leaving school left Musk without a legal basis to remain in the United States, according to legal experts.
Foreign students cannot drop out of school to build a company, even if they are not immediately getting paid, said Leon Fresco, a former Justice Department immigration litigator.
“If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Fresco said.
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Exposed : Elon Musk admitted he worked illegally in the United States!
While US immigration records are generally not open to the public, the WaPo team obtained evidence from a California defamation lawsuit, in which Elon Musk admitted he was working illegally in the United States!
In a 2005 late night email to Tesla co-founders Martin Eberhard and JB Straubel, Elon Musk acknowledged that he did not have authorisation to be in the United States when he founded Zip2.
Actually, I didn’t really care much for the degree, but I had no money for a lab and no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issue. Then the internet came along, which seemed like a much surer bet.
When his investors found out, they “forced” the Musk brothers and an associate to obtain legal work status:
When the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures poured $3 million into Musk’s company in 1996, the funding agreement — a copy of which was obtained by The Post — stated that the Musk brothers and an associate had 45 days to obtain legal work status. Otherwise, the firm could reclaim its investment.
“Their immigration status was not what it should be for them to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.,” said Derek Proudian, a Zip2 board member at the time who later became chief executive. Investors agreed, Proudian said: “We don’t want our founder being deported.”
Another large shareholder at the time, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, said a minor problem drew additional attention to the Musk brothers’ unresolved immigration issues. Musk told co-workers he was in the country on a student visa, according to six former associates and Zip2 shareholders.
“We want to take care of this long before there’s anything that could screw up” the company’s path to an initial public offering, Proudian recalled.
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Kimbal Musk has repeatedly acknowledged working illegally in the United States, describing that when investors began offering them money, they found out that the Musk brothers had no legal permission to work in the United States!
Kimball even corrected his brother in a 2013 interview, when Elon suggested that their immigration status was “a grey area”:
Kimball : In fact, when they did fund us, they realized that we were illegal immigrants.
Elon : Well…
Kimball : Yes, we were.
Elon : I’d say it was a grey area.
Kimball : We were illegal immigrants.
WaPo obtained documents which showed Zip2 executives meeting with immigration attorney Jocelyn Lew on 21 February 1996, to discuss potential visa pathways for the Musk brothers and another Canadian co-founder. Lew allegedly advised the three men to downplay their leadership roles in Zip2, and scrub their resumes of US addresses which would show that they were already living and working in the United States.
Lew allegedly advised Musk to seek another student visa from the University of Pennsylvania, where he had earlier studied as an undergraduate; and later taught him how to obtain passport-sized photos to apply for the US visa lottery.
A person who joined Zip2’s human resources department in 1997 remembers processing work visas for the Musks and other family members under a category available to Canadians under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Exposed : Elon Musk hired his own brother to work illegally in the US!
As if his own lack of legal status was not bad enough, Elon Musk allegedly asked his brother, Kimball, to come from Canada to run his company in the United States.
That might have also contravened a 1986 federal law, which made it a crime to knowingly hire someone without work authorisation:
Musk said in 2003 and 2009 that he “convinced” Kimbal to come from Canada to work for his company.
Records filed with the California secretary of state show Elon Musk was the registered agent for Global Link Information Network when it incorporated in November 1995. On Feb. 26, 1996, the company listed Kimbal as president and CEO and Elon as secretary.
“I tried to get a visa, but there’s just no visa you can get to do a start-up,” Kimbal said in a 2021 interview. “I was definitely illegal.”
If that’s true, it could put the Musk brothers in further legal jeopardy. That may have been on Elon Musk’s mind during his interview with Tucker Carlson in October 2024:
Tucker Carlson : If Trump loses, you’re fucked, dude.
Elon Musk : If he loses, I’m fucked. How long do you think my prison sentence is going to be? Will I see my children? I don’t know.
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