WaPo: Musk Began US Career Working Here Illegally

The Washington Post reports:

Long before he became one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors and campaign surrogates, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching a graduate studies program in California, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Musk in recent months has amplified the Republican presidential candidate’s claims that “open borders” and undocumented immigrants are destroying America, broadcasting those views to more than 200 million followers on the site formerly known as Twitter, which Musk bought in 2022 and later renamed X.

What Musk has not publicly disclosed is that he did not have the legal right to work while building the company that became Zip2, which sold for about $300 million in 1999. It was Musk’s steppingstone to Tesla and the other ventures that have made him the world’s wealthiest person — and arguably America’s most successful immigrant.

Read the full article. Stories about this have floated around for years and Musk’s own brother has admitted on video that they were here illegally. Props to WaPo for using the pre-hair transplant photo.

EXCLUSIVE

Elon Musk worked in the US illegally. Investors ordered him to get a visa. He admitted it in an email.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally – The Washington Post by ⁦@faizsays⁩ ⁦@NickMiroff⁩ & me https://t.co/kGdHW0prJm

— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) October 26, 2024