Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday to raise awareness about the invasion that’s taking place on a daily basis.
Musk brought a camera and spoke with Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and local law enforcement officials.
FOX News reports:
Elon Musk livestreams border to give people firsthand account of migrant crisisTech billionaire Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday with plans to livestream a tour of the area to give people a sense of the real situation with the ongoing migrant crisis.Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX and X, has shown significant interest in the ongoing crisis along the border and has been posting about it frequently on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.On Tuesday, he announced he had spoken with U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, about the crisis, who confirmed it was a “serious issue.”Musk, while donning a black cowboy hat, went live on his platform Thursday, saying he was going to go around and speak with officials and “eyeball the situation to get the real story.””This is real time, unfiltered,” he said. “What you see is what I see.”Musk then said as an immigrant himself, he is “extremely pro immigrant,” but explained that there needs to be expanded immigration that allows hardworking and honest people to legally come to the U.S., but not allow immigrants who are going to break the law.
More from the New York Post:
Musk warns ‘some pretty extreme individuals’ entering US during trip to southern borderBillionaire Elon Musk toured the southern border in Texas Thursday and warned “some pretty extreme” migrants are crossing into the US as he offered an “unfiltered” view of the ongoing crisis…“To be clear we’re both very much in favor of expanded legal immigration. I think anyone who is hardworking and honest and is really gonna add to … the economy, we should let them in,” Musk said.“But what we’re seeing here are in some cases some pretty extreme individuals coming through … obviously not suggesting everyone is like this.”Musk then mentioned how he heard a man hopped the border with facial tattoos, including tears drops, which he said “means they have murdered someone and they are so proud of having murdered someone that they tattoo — one tear on their face for every one person that they killed.”“That’s exactly right,” Gonzales — whose district covers hundreds of miles along the border — replied when Musk asked if that was correct.
Watch below as Musk is told about the size and scale of the problem, and how the Biden administration differs from previous ones in its refusal to repatriate the border crossers:
Musk seems to care about this issue more than many of our elected leaders.
An excellent question:
Featured image via Twitter video.
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