Seems there are question’s about Eton Reeve Musk transtioning from a US student visa to a work visa….
Musk was born in South Africa in 1971….
He holds citizenship in South Africa, Canada and the United States…..
He’s been in the media against the very ‘Open Borders’ that allowed him to come here and live the ‘American Dream’….
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.
Musk and his brother, Kimbal, have often described their immigrant journey in romantic terms, as a time of personal austerity, undeterred ambition and a willingness to flout conventions. Musk arrived in Palo Alto in 1995 for a graduate degree program at Stanford University but never enrolled in courses, working instead on his start-up.
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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Musk defends his status…
Musk’s denial followed remarks from President Joe Biden, who seized on The Post’s reporting Saturday to accuse the man who has allied with former president Donald Trump in the upcoming election of a double standard.
Musk has become a vociferous critic of the administration’s handling of immigration, decrying what he calls “open borders” and warning of the perils of illegal immigration. On his X feed he often laments the flood of “illegals” and baselessly alleges that it is part of a massive voter importation scheme.
“That wealthiest man in the world turned out to be [an] illegal worker here when he was here,” Biden said, according to footage posted of a Saturday campaign event in Pittsburgh. “I’m serious. He was supposed to be in school when he came on a student visa. He wasn’t in school. He was violating the law. He’s talking about all these illegals coming our way?”….
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The Post’s report, based on interviews with former business associates, court records and company documents, said Musk worked illegally after ditching a graduate program in California to launch a start-up that later sold for more than $300 million. A board member of the company, who later became its CEO, said Musk’s status “was not what it should be” in order “to be legally employed running a company in the U.S.”
Upon learning that Musk lacked the legal status he needed, investors scrambled to help him secure a visa over concerns that the matter would have to be disclosed in a securities filing if the company were to go public.
“We don’t want our founder being deported,” said Derek Proudian, the Zip2 board member, who later became chief executive….
image….Elon Musk is seen at his desk on March 19, 2004, in El Segundo, California….Paul Harris/Getty
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