ALYSSA GUZMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM ; Elon Musk 'was an illegal immigrant' before becoming open-border critic
"South Africa-born Elon Musk has become one of the biggest illegal immigration critics in the US, but the billionaire had a questionable immigration status of his own when he started his first company in the 1990s.
Although Musk, now 53, entered the country legally on a student visa to Stanford in 1995, he never actually enrolled in the prestigious California school.
Instead, two days into the semester, he called the department chair to tell them he wasn't going to attend, which should have prompted his immediate exit from the country as he had no legal right to stay, according to The Washington Post.
However, the entrepreneur did not leave the US and stayed in the country as an illegal immigrant to start his first company Zip2 - a moment in his impressive career that he simply calls a 'gray area.'
Now, the Telsa and SpaceX founder is a major critic of the US border crisis and has recently slammed the Biden Administration for turning a blind eye to the soaring immigration rates coming from the US-Mexico border.
The richest man in the world - who has a staggering net worth of nearly $270billion - has even become one of Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump's biggest donors ahead of the 2024 election next month."
