Elon Musk worked illegally in the US early in his career: report

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Elon Musk has a lot to say on social media about immigration, migrant crime and lies about Democrats using illegal immigrants to get votes. Which he didn’t say publicly, according The Washington Postis that Musk, himself an immigrant, worked illegally in the US early in his career.

Musk, the world’s richest person, was born in South Africa and left his native country after graduation at 17 to attend college in Canada. According to The Post, he arrived in Palo Alto in 1995 for a graduate program at Stanford University, but never enrolled in classes.

Instead, he worked on his first start-up, Zip2, which he sold in 1999 for about $300 million. Zip2 paved the way for Tesla and the other companies that make Musk the richest person on Earth.

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Legal experts told The Post that Musk’s decision not to go to school means he has no legal basis to remain in the U.S.

Leon Fresco, a former immigration attorney, said foreign students are not allowed to drop out of school to build a company, “even if they don’t get paid right away.”

“If you’re doing something that helps facilitate revenue creation, like design code or you’re trying to make sales to promote revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Fresco told The Post.

Musk, 53, has increasingly used X, the social media site he owns, to amplify unfounded immigration claimsincluding that Democrats are “importing” migrants into the country to vote for that too Haitian migrants in Ohio kill and eat pets.

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Conformable BloombergMusk posts more about immigration and voter fraud than any other topic on X, where he has more than 200 million followers.

In February, Musk, who poured more than $100 million into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, complained that illegal immigrants can get driver’s licenses and insurance in the US. Musk’s associates said he frequently drove while not legally in the U.S. — he would have had to have a driver’s license and insurance to do so, The Post pointed out. outside.

Musk’s brother Kimbal has repeatedly admitted that he and Elon worked in the US without proper authorization.

Musk, his attorney Alex Spiro and Musk’s family office manager did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.