Immigration Watch International (2): Elon Musk Takes a Hard Line on Immigration

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Elon Musk Takes a Hard Line on Immigration

Elon Musk is never afraid to touch on and get involved with sensitive subjects.

The billionaire entrepreneur, who in recent months has become one of the world's most influential personalities, believes that he must speak out on issues he thinks the world must confront. Musk's ambitions are enormous: He promises, for example, that it will be possible to live on Mars in 5 to 10 years.

Unlike many CEOs, the Tesla (TSLA) - Get Free Report chief is unafraid to opine on hot topics, from the culture wars to guns in America to Russia's war in Ukraine. Musk is everywhere.

He has just weighed in on immigration, a subject that actually is often mentioned by other business leaders, particularly in the tech industry.

If the CEO of Tesla and founder of SpaceX is a proponent of legal immigration, there's a red line he won't cross.

Musk commented on an Washington Examiner article that talks about an increase in arrests of Chinese immigrants illegally entering the U.S. via the Mexican border.

The media outlet reports that in January 2022, Border Patrol agents stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border arrested 80 illegal immigrants who were citizens of China. A year later, 1,064 Chinese immigrants were apprehended there, 13 times the year-earlier figure.

The article does not specify why the number of Chinese immigrants has surged.

Other conservative media such as Fox have also recently reported on this phenomenon. Quoting data from a senior Customs and Border Protection source, the outlet reported that arrests of nationals from China are up 800% from the fiscal year earlier including January.

The official numbers have not been released yet. But Musk didn't wait to weigh in.

"I am very much in favor of hard-working people coming to America, but we can’t have de facto open borders with no screening," the billionaire commented on the Washington Examiner's article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/elon-musk-takes-a-hard-line-on-immigration/ar-AA17ugB6

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Elon Musk Takes a Hard Line on Immigration

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