Billionaire Elon Musk toured the southern border in Texas on Thursday and warned that “some pretty extreme” migrants are crossing into the US as he offered an “unfiltered” view of the ongoing crisis.
Musk — the owner of X, formerly of Twitter — was accompanied by Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) during his visit to Eagle Pass, a city that declared a state of emergency last week over the unprecedented arrival of thousands of migrants.
Wearing a cowboy hat and aviator sunglasses, Musk livestreamed his firsthand observations and told Gonzales that while he is “extremely pro-immigrant,” he doesn’t believe people should be allowed to enter the US if they are “breaking the law.”
“To be clear, we’re both very much in favor of expanded legal immigration. I think anyone who is hardworking and honest and is really gonna add to … the economy, we should let them in,” Musk said.
“But what we’re seeing here are in some cases some pretty extreme individuals coming through … obviously not suggesting everyone is like this.”
Elon Musk(in black T-shirt) and Rep. Tony Gonzales (in light blue shirt) visit an area where migrants who crossed the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States are processed by US Customs and Border Protection. James Keivom
Musk sported a cowboy hat during his visit. Twitter @EndWokenessMusk then mentioned how he heard a man hopped the border with facial tattoos, including tearsdrops, which he said “means they have murdered someone and they are so proud of having murdered someone that they tattoo — one tear on their face for every one person that they killed.”
“That’s exactly right,” Gonzales — whose district covers hundreds of miles along the border — replied when Musk asked if that was correct.
The flow of people coming to the country is so large that Musk said it is “leading to a collapse of social services where even America’s largest city, New York, is buckling under the pressure of just how many illegal immigrants are going to New York.”
Musk livestreamed the situation at the border. NYPJ“If New York can’t handle it, well, pretty much no part of the country can,” Musk continued. “So if we don’t do something soon, we’re just gonna have, like I said, a collapse in social services as we’re already seeing in New York.”
More than 100,000 migrants have reached NYC since last year, straining city services and finances.
About 11,000 migrants crossed into the US from Mexico from Sunday to Monday alone, the “single highest day in recent memory,” Fox News reported. About 4,000 crossed at Eagle Pass, including some who crawled through razor wire and waded through the Rio Grande.
Statistics published by The Post show that 1.23 million migrants have crossed the southern border seeking asylum in the past 11 months, according to data analyzed by the nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
The visit comes as thousands of migrants cross the border. James KeivomMusk, a South Africa native who noted he was an immigrant, also spoke with law enforcement during the visit about the border, though he had trouble at one point while videotaping the scene.
One of Musk’s videos appeared to cut short due to technical difficulties after he wondered if he was still streaming live on the social network.
“I was a bit worried that this might — so many people might go on it that it crashes. Maybe not working anymore, let’s see,” Musk said moments before the screen went dark.
When he came back, he said the cell connection wasn’t good.
“It’d be helpful to have some Starlink, perhaps,” he said in reference to his satellites from Space X that expand broadband internet.
