Washington (EFE).- Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, Tesla and obtained by The Washington Post.
The revelation is relevant since Musk has become one of the largest donors and supporters of former Republican president and current presidential candidate, Donald Trump, supporting his speech against irregular immigration.
In recent months, Musk has amplified Trump’s false theories about undocumented migrants, accusing them of destroying the country and spreading those opinions among his more than 200 million followers on X, a social network that he acquired in 2022 and renamed to X, instead of Twitter.
Elon Musk’s studies, the key to the case
According to the Washington Post, Musk did not have the legal right to work while building Zip2, the company he sold for about $300 million in 1999, and which was his springboard to Tesla and other companies that have made him the richest person in the world. world.
Musk came to Palo Alto in 1995 to pursue a graduate program at Stanford University, but never enrolled, dedicating himself instead to his business ventures.
Tycoon Elon Musk, in a file photograph. EFE/Tolga Akmen/Pool
This, according to legal experts consulted by the Post, left him without a legal basis to remain in the country, since by not enrolling in college, he would have had to leave the United States under the immigration laws of the time. In any case, he would not have been allowed to work.
As Leon Fresco, a former Department of Justice lawyer, told The Washington Post, foreign students who arrive in the United States with a student visa cannot abandon their studies to found a company, even if they are not receiving immediate payments at that time.
The tycoon does not clear up the doubts
Elon Musk has never publicly acknowledged having worked without legal status. In a 2013 interview, he joked that he was in a “gray zone” early in his career, and in 2020, he said he had a “student work visa” after leaving Stanford.
“I was legally there, but I was supposed to do study-related work,” Musk stated in a podcast in 2020.
Neither Musk, nor his lawyer Alex Spiro, nor the head of Musk’s family office have responded to requests from The Washington Post to obtain their version of these revelations.
