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Technology billionaire and entrepreneur Elon Musk fulfilled a previous pledge to visit the chaotic U.S.-Mexico border, where an ongoing illegal migrant and drug-smuggling crisis has been unfolding since the first days of the Biden administration.
Musk live-streamed his visit, which included speaking to federal and local officials and authorities about the ongoing crises. In addition, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) was on hand to tour with Musk since the region is part of his district.
“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,” Fox News reported, adding that Musk spoke with Gonzales on Tuesday who described the situation as a “serious issue.”
At Eagle Pass discussing the border crisis https://t.co/Gt30ifvvFk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2023
Musk arrived on the border Thursday. As he was live-streaming, he told viewers 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, as an immigrant himself, said he is “extremely pro-immigrant” but went on to explain that while he believes in expanded immigration so that honest people can come to the U.S. legally, there needs to be control of the border.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder and CEO went on to express concerns about an overflow of migrants into American cities at levels that would collapse local social services, which is happening in New York City.
Musk has been leaning more into political issues of late, including challenging Alex Soros, the son of far-left business and political activist George Soros, to a debate in Twitter Spaces shortly after his father handed him control of his $25 billion empire last month.
“If @AlexanderSoros is serious about freedom of speech, then we have common ground,” Musk said. “But destroying public safety by electing DAs who won’t prosecute violent criminals needs to stop.”
George Soros, through his various Marxist-oriented non-profit groups, has poured millions of dollars into local district attorney races to elect far-left candidates whose “criminal justice reform” measures essentially amount to a commitment to stop prosecuting dozens of crimes under the phony guise of ‘combatting racism.’
As a result, in many of the country’s largest cities — all of which have been run by Democrats for years — crime and violence have spiked, which critics of Soros claim was the objective all along for the purpose of driving political and policy changes.
If @AlexanderSoros is serious about freedom of speech, then we have common ground.
But destroying public safety by electing DAs who won’t prosecute violent criminals needs to stop.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2023
Left-wing ‘journalist’ Brian Krassenstein replied to Musk, “I agree that public safety is incredibly important. From what I have read from Soros himself, his initiatives are not to make society less safe but to forgo the prosecution of some addicts and those suffering from mental health ailments and instead get them the help they need to recover or get treated appropriately.
“O[f] course one can argue that the DAs he supported have failed but I wouldn’t necessarily jump to the conclusion that his actions are evil,” he added.
Musk replied: “Maybe we should do a Spaces with you, me & Alex to air this out.”
Meanwhile, Alex Soros has frequented the Biden White House, according to a recent report.
Fox News reported that Democrat megadonor Alex has been to the White House at least 17 times, though it’s not clear why.
“The younger Soros, who chairs the board of directors for his father’s Open Society Foundations network, has now visited the White House at least 17 times since 2021, according to a Fox News Digital review of visitor logs,” the outlet reported earlier this month.
“Alex’s most recent visits include three meetings between February 8th and 10th, records released Tuesday show. The visitor logs list Jon Finer, the principal deputy national security adviser; Jordan Finkelstein, special assistant to the president and the chief of staff for senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn; and Mariana Adame, the adviser to the counselor of the president, as the individuals who greeted Alex,” the report continued.
“It remains unclear precisely who Alex may have met with for the sessions, as the records can contain White House staff who book appointments, meet the guests and take them to other personnel,” Fox News Digital added.
