Elon Musk said the Biden administration is ‘actively aiding illegal immigration’ by suing states over efforts to implement their own border security measures.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sharply criticized the Biden administration’s legal actions to force Arizona to dismantle a makeshift border wall and later to allow federal agents to remove Texas’s razor wire barrier, accusing the executive branch under President Joe Biden of “actively aiding illegal immigration.”
Mr. Musk made the remark in a message on X, commenting on a post by the End Wokeness account that pointed out that the Biden administration sued both Arizona and Texas over the states’ respective efforts to bolster the security of their border communities amid record waves of people crossing into the United States unlawfully.
The Biden administration’s legal challenges to Arizona’s and Texas’ efforts to stem the flow of illegal immigration led to court decisions against the states.
In Arizona’s case, it led to the removal of the makeshift barrier while in regards to Texas, a Jan. 22 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court allowed federal agents to cut concertina wire barriers.
“The only time Joe Biden takes action on the invasion is to block states from stopping it,” the End Wokness account charged.
Mr. Musk expressed sympathy with that view.
“This administration is actively aiding illegal immigration,” he wrote in his post.
In a similarly strongly worded rebuke to the Biden administration’s legal efforts to block states from implementing their own border security measures, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) charged that the Biden administration is “staging a civil war” by cutting Texas’s razor wire barriers.
By contrast, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) praised the recent Supreme Court ruling that lets federal agents continue cutting Texas’s concertina wire barriers.
“Enforcement of immigration law is a federal responsibility,” the spokesperson said in a statement to some media outlets.
“Rather than helping to reduce irregular migration, the State of Texas has only made it harder for frontline personnel to do their jobs and to apply consequences under the law. We can enforce our laws and administer them safely, humanely, and in an orderly way.”Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said in a statement on Jan. 22 that the Supreme Court ruling “allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America.”
