The mass deportation-backing billionaire founded a company without authorization to work in the US, a report finds

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has become a staunch opponent of illegal immigrants, using his considerable following on his social media network to spread outright racist conspiracy theorists and plenty of other disinformation about the topic.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — the world's wealthiest man — has come out harshly against undocumented immigrants since becoming one of former President Donald Trump's biggest donors and campaign surrogates.

Elon Musk worked illegally on a student visa and faced concerns he would be “deported” when he started life in the United States, a bombshell report revealed Saturday. The billionaire South African-born immigrant also admitted in an email that he “had no legal right to stay in the country” when he ditched his studies and founded a company which he later sold for more than $300 million,

Musk has become a harsh critic of illegal immigration as a key Trump ally and uses his X platform to push anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation.