According to the Washington Post, Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States.

Washington (EFE).- Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, Tesla and acquired by The Washington Post.

The revelation comes as Musk has become one of former Republican President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump’s biggest donors and supporters, backing his anti-illegal immigration message.

In recent months, Musk has amplified Trump’s false theories about illegal immigrants, blaming them for destroying the country and spreading those opinions to his more than 200 million followers on the social network X, which he acquired in 2022 and renamed X instead of Twitter. .

Elon Musk’s research is the key to the matter

According to the Washington Post, Musk did not have the legal right to work on creating Zip2, the company he sold for about $300 million in 1999 and which became his springboard for Tesla and other companies that made him the richest man in the world. . world.

Musk came to Palo Alto in 1995 to pursue graduate studies at Stanford University, but never enrolled, devoting himself instead to his business projects.

This, according to legal experts consulted by the Post, left him without a legal basis for being in the country because, without enrolling in college, he would have had to leave the United States under immigration laws at the time. In any case, he would not have been allowed to work.

International students coming to the United States on student visas cannot give up their studies to start a company, even if they don’t receive immediate payments at the time, Leon Fresco, a former Justice Department lawyer, told The Washington Post.

The tycoon does not dispel doubts

Elon Musk has never publicly admitted that he worked without legal status. In a 2013 interview, he joked that he was in a “gray area” early in his career, and in 2020 said that he had a “student work visa” after leaving Stanford.

“I was there legally, but I had to do work related to my studies,” Musk said in a podcast in 2020.

Neither Musk, his lawyer Alex Spiro, nor the head of Musk’s family office responded to The Washington Post’s requests for their side of the revelations.