Washington Post contrasts the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views

Elon Musk briefly worked illegally in the US after abandoning a graduate studies program in California, according to a Washington Post report that contrasted the episode with the South African multibillionaire’s anti-immigration views.

The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.

But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.

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    9 days ago

    It’s okay for whites to do it. We are a white supremacist country after all. Before a bunch of liberal get their panties in a bunch we literally jail the most people on the planet. We practice de facto Jim Crow but just call it drug enforcement and other flimsy pretextes.

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      9 days ago

      “You’re not supposed to go around saying that we’re ‘white supremacist’, it de-legitimises our white supremacy!”