Elon Musk announces he will head to Eagle Pass ‘later this week’ to find out for himself the situation amid Biden’s shambolic handling as 11K enter every day
Elon Musk has announced that he will head to Eagle Pass, Texas, later this week to observe the situation at the US-Mexico border, where thousands of people are crossing the border every day amid an asylum seeker crisis.
The small border town has been flooded with migrants in recent days, with more than 7,500 people flooding into the small town of 28,000 in just two days.
The 52-year-old Tesla founder claimed on X, formerly Twitter, that he spoke with Congressman Tony Gonzales, who sounded the alarm about the crisis, and decided to see the scene for himself.
“I spoke with Rep. Tony Gonzales this evening – he confirmed it is a serious issue,” Musk wrote on Tuesday. ‘They are being overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers – they have just reached an all-time high and are still growing! I’m going to Eagle Pass later this week to see what’s going on with myself.”
In another message responding to a DailyMail.com video of chaos outside a Staten Island migrant shelter, Musk said “this is a serious crisis.”
Elon Musk has announced that he will go to Eagle Pass, Texas later this week to observe the situation at the US-Mexico border
The small border town has been flooded with migrants in recent days, with more than 7,500 people flooding into the small town of 28,000 in just two days.
Musk’s announcement of a border visit comes at a time when the billionaire appears to be playing a bigger role in the political world.
On Tuesday, the SpaceX chief met with Hungarian President Katalin Novák for talks on the world’s demographic crisis at the Tesla Gigafactory in Texas, outside Austin, where he has taken up residence.
He met the politician after being unable to attend the biennial demographic summit in Budapest last week to discuss the population collapse.
Musk was pictured carrying son X Æ A-12 on his shoulders as he showed Novák around the facility before heading to a private meeting to discuss the importance of having children.
Musk was expected to attend the Demographic Summit in the capital Budapest this month before meeting Novák.
The event was attended by leading voices including Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Canadian polemicist Jordan Peterson and Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman.
The summit was first held in 2015 and was organized by the Hungarian government in collaboration with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and other international groups.
Officials have long said that the influx of migrants crossing the border illegally is directly linked to the multibillion-dollar human trafficking schemes of Mexico’s notoriously violent drug cartels.
Musk was also recently spotted with son X Æ A-12 Musk (X for short) during an awkward meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Musk took his son to the lecture on Tesla’s future in Turkey, while Erdoğan was in New York for the UN General Assembly.
‘Where is your wife?’ Erdoğan asked, as Musk held his son.
“Oh, she’s in San Francisco,” he replied. “We are separated, I mainly take care of him.”
Erdoğan brought a soccer ball for the three-year-old, who seemed more interested in the cameras.
X Æ A-12 (also known as X) is one of three children Musk has with music artist Grimes.
Meanwhile, harrowing images show the desperation at the border as thousands of asylum seekers try to cross the Rio Grande.
As many as 232,972 migrants crossed the US-Mexico border in August, an increase from previous months.
Many migrants are victims of extensive multi-billion dollar human trafficking schemes run by drug cartels
The Democratic mayor declared a state of emergency in the small border town of Eagle Pass, where an estimated 100,000 people were believed to have waded into town last week through the Rio Grande, the river that flows between Mexico and the US.
About two million migrants are believed to have crossed the US southern border in 2023, with many citing Biden’s lax policies as the reason. Another 500,000 could cross by the end of the year.
Recently, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that another 800 troops would be sent to the border to help with the crisis, along with the more than 2,500 National Guardsmen already present.
Last week, Biden announced plans to quickly process more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants who have crossed the border since July 31, to provide some relief from the growing numbers facing underfunded border officials.
As the crisis continues, the Mexican and U.S. governments and the United Nations are considering establishing a temporary pre-screening program for approximately 40,000 asylum seekers from Haiti, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba who are currently in southern Mexico, where there are no mobile U.S. are refugees. consulates to do this.
According to Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena, UN migration and refugee agencies would assess whether the migrants qualify for asylum before they go to a mobile US consulate.