Elon Musk accuses Democrats of ‘importing voters’ — RT World News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused the US Democratic Party of opening the country's borders to… “Importing voters.” Earlier this week, Politico reported that President Joe Biden is considering granting permanent residency to millions of illegal immigrants.

Comment on a reportMusk announced this on his X platform “The goal of the Democratic Party is to import voters.”

According to Politico sources, Biden is considering expanding access to the so-called “removal of deportation program” in the United States for illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for more than ten years and whose removal would negatively impact their fellow citizens or resident friends and relatives. .

The program is currently available to legal residents who have been ordered to leave the United States for various reasons, and to certain illegal immigrants. A successful revocation can take many years to make its way through the legal system, and about 4,000 removal revocations are carried out Issued Every year, according to the US Department of Justice.

There are believed to be about 10.5 million illegal immigrants living in the United States, according to estimates Data Compiled by Pew Research in 2021. However, at least 6.3 million more have entered the United States in the years since, according to Department of Homeland Security figures, bringing the total to nearly 18 million.

Pew earlier Stady It found that nearly two-thirds of undocumented immigrants in the United States have been there for more than a decade. Counting only immigrants in the country in 2021, the removal program Biden is considering could lead to about six million of them becoming permanent residents.

Only US citizens can vote in federal elections. However, permanent residents can apply for citizenship after five years, or three years if they are married to a US citizen.

Biden's first actions as President of the United States included signing a set of executive orders that rescinded almost all of the immigration restrictions imposed by former President Donald Trump. Since then, he has unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to pass a bill that would provide a path to citizenship for more than 10 million illegal immigrants. File a lawsuit against The state of Texas for trying to enforce federal immigration law.

“Biden's strategy is very simple” Musk tweeted in February. “1. Get as many illegal immigrants into the country as possible. 2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state. That's why they encourage so much illegal immigration. Simple but effective.”

In the United States, ethnic minorities usually vote Democratic. Aside from potentially creating future voters, illegal immigration can give certain states greater representation in Congress, as the number of seats allotted to a state in the House of Representatives is determined by its total population, which includes those who are there illegally.