This was reported all over at the time. It doesn’t matter for a large enough portion of the population, and the current administration, so they’re not going to do anything about it.
Surely that’s irrelevant compared to the public figure featured in the story who hates immigration and supports sending illegal immigrants home?
Whether or not I, just some guy who can infer from statistics that immigration is factually a net positive, does not detract from a powerful guy whose personal convictions outweigh reality behaving like a hypocrite.
Let’s not let the benefits of migration to every party get in the way of the guy who did the thing he said no one should do dodge the punishment he said everyone should get.
Many who hate musk because he is a Nazi actually would like the US to allow more immigration; to provide a path for immigrants already established to become ‘legal’. At the very least not treat them inhumanly. It’s only ideological coincident because these concepts are the logical, are aligned with decent values and sane.
Musk and his ilk want ‘illegals’ removed, and so his hypocrisy should be called out - especially since this backwards thinking comes from the lack of empathy and recognition that immigrants are people just like everyone else with aspirations, capabilities, contributions - so much like everyone else that in fact musk is one of them.
Article from 2024.
It would be nice if mainstream media reported on this thing that we already know, though, so I appreciate the reminder.
This was reported all over at the time. It doesn’t matter for a large enough portion of the population, and the current administration, so they’re not going to do anything about it.
Don’t the people that now hate musk tend to support illegals working here, or is that just a stereotype?
Surely that’s irrelevant compared to the public figure featured in the story who hates immigration and supports sending illegal immigrants home?
Whether or not I, just some guy who can infer from statistics that immigration is factually a net positive, does not detract from a powerful guy whose personal convictions outweigh reality behaving like a hypocrite.
Let’s not let the benefits of migration to every party get in the way of the guy who did the thing he said no one should do dodge the punishment he said everyone should get.
Many who hate musk because he is a Nazi actually would like the US to allow more immigration; to provide a path for immigrants already established to become ‘legal’. At the very least not treat them inhumanly. It’s only ideological coincident because these concepts are the logical, are aligned with decent values and sane.
Musk and his ilk want ‘illegals’ removed, and so his hypocrisy should be called out - especially since this backwards thinking comes from the lack of empathy and recognition that immigrants are people just like everyone else with aspirations, capabilities, contributions - so much like everyone else that in fact musk is one of them.