Elon Musk once described his past immigration status as a ‘gray area’

CNN — The world’s richest man stood steps away from the US-Mexico border, adjusting the brim of his black cowboy hat. … If you live in a glass house, you shouldn’t throw stones.” Elon Musk, shown here speaking at an event in June 2023, frequently criticizes illegal immigration. “I was legally there,” Elon Musk responded, “but I was meant to be doing student work.” A few moments later, describing early conversations with the venture capitalists who helped fund Zip2, Kimbal Musk reiterated details he’d shared in his 2013 remarks: “We had to break the news to them that … we don’t have a car, and we don’t have an apartment, and we are illegal.” This time, Elon Musk denied the description applied to him. “It’s very unclear.” “It does raise questions,” Swanson says, “but it doesn’t mean what he did wasn’t legal.” Minear, the former American Immigration Lawyers Association president, also says it’s impossible to know Elon Musk’s immigration path without access to the paper trail in his government file. Medina County Sheriff Randy Brown in a September 2023 Fox News interview after Elon Musk's visit to Eagle Pass, Texas “We’re just going to go around and talk to the major officials and law enforcement and whatnot that are here, and just kind of eyeball the situation, and get a sense of what’s going on, so you can get kind of, like, the real story,” he said in the live video he shared on X.