Musk makes bizarre claim as he takes aim at Biden on migration
JOE BIDEN is allowing illegal migrants to flood into the US to remain in power, Elon Musk has said in a bizarre claim as the tech entrepreneur stepped up his attacks on the president over the migration crisis.
Mr Musk’s statement on Twitter, the platform he took over in April 2022, has been criticised for giving credence to a conspiracy theory.
“Biden’s strategy is very simple: 1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible. 2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state,” Mr Musk said as he posted a picture of a news story on Biden’s border policy.
It is not the first time that Mr Musk has criticised the president on migration. In recent months, he has railed on the issue, visited the border in a live event broadcast on Twitter and shown his support for Geert Wilders, the radical anti-migration politician in the Netherlands.
Critics have also accused Mr Musk of opening up his social media channel to hard-right conspiracy theorists. They argue that Mr Musk’s latest comments showed support for the “great replacement” theory that political elites are deliberately trying to turn the native white population into a minority.
Mr Musk added: “This explains why there are so few deportations, as every deportation is a lost vote.”
He also commented on an assault on police officers allegedly by a group of migrants in New York that has caused political uproar in recent weeks. Video of one of the perpetrators leaving court with his middle fingers up went viral on Twitter last week.
He said: “As happened this week, you can literally assault police officers in broad daylight in New York, be released with no bail, give everyone the finger and *still* not be deported!!”
In September, the owner of Tesla and Spacex published a 15-minute video after visiting Eagle Pass on the Texas-Mexico border.
In the video, he endorsed the call for a border wall, a central plank of Donald Trump’s election campaign.
Mr Musk, who came to the US in 1992, entered the country as a student, having obtained Canadian nationality from his mother. He became a US citizen seven years later.
Meanwhile, Mr Biden cruised to a comfortable victory in the first official Democratic primary held in South Carolina.
The US president took more than 96 per cent of the vote.
Dean Phillips, the Democratic congressman who has challenged Mr Biden for the nomination, came a humiliating third, behind Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru who took 2.1 per cent of the vote. Mr Phillips was supported by only 1.7 per cent.