Musk Warns That Immigrants Will Do All the Things He Did

The billionaire former undocumented immigrant today said his peers are a threat to democracy

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Former undocumented immigrant Elon Musk, on the Sept. 7, 2018, episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, violated federal law by smoking weed while a contractor for government agencies. (Screengrab / WSJ video.)

Billionaire Elon Musk said today that immigrants will end American democracy, suggesting they will turn the country into a hellscape like “the nightmare that is downtown San Francisco.”

Musk lent his voice and powerful megaphone to the anti-immigrant narrative being pushed by former Pres. Donald Trump and other Republicans.

Specifically, Trump and his followers have said that mentally ill, undocumented immigrants are coming to America to steal jobs, replace white people, bring diseases, won’t assimilate, won’t learn the language, make America dirtier, replace Americans with all their anchor babies, become a drain on society, steal credit from others, commit crimes — including sexual violence, drug use, and killing people — refuse to assimilate, and attempt to undermine the democratic process.

Musk would know, as he’s individually done or stands credibly accused of doing literally every single one of those things.

According to Musk’s post today, “if even 1 in 20 illegals [sic] become citizens per year, something that the Democrats are expediting as fast as humanly possible [sic], that would be about 2 million new legal voters in 4 years [sic].”

Musk was responding to a Tweet from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who claimed that the Justice Department was seeking to let undocumented immigrants vote in Alabama. In fact, the Justice Department is suing to stop an Alabama purge of voter rolls that is both illegally close to Election Day (giving purged voters not enough time to file challenges) and that the state itself admits will disenfranchise lawful voters who became citizens after the list was last updated.

The big picture here is that Musk is complaining about immigrants getting the right to vote when they become citizens, which is not only legal and the American way, it’s how literally everyone or their forebears did it.

However, it’s also what Musk himself allegedly did…along with committing or being accused of literally every single smear that the Trump campaign has leveled against immigrants. To wit…