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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      29 days ago

      It’s okay to be here illegally if you’re above a certain level on the brownness/pinkness scale.

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        28 days ago

        Born here but brown while my wife is blond but Swedish.

        Fucking southerners, if Jesus came back right then they’d be less shocked. It’s like it’s impossible for me to have a more American accent than her or them (northeast/Californian), it just makes no sense.