When Elon Musk Violates Immigration Law It's Fine Though
Added 2024-11-01 09:38:14 +0000 UTCOA1082 - Donald Trump recently promised that he and House speaker Mike Johnson have a “little secret” about how they are going to win next week’s election. Is he just trolling, or have Republicans identified real vulnerabilities in our federal election system? We assess the legal realities surrounding one particularly doomerist prediction in The Nation to try to understand just how concerned we really should be.
The Washington Post has just revealed that Elon Musk has his own little secret: his numerous past violations of federal immigration law. How much does this matter, and what would happen if ICE received this information about someone who didn’t happen to be the world’s wealthiest person?
Finally, for our dessert course Matt has the scoop on a tasty footnote from this week’s news about how the Librarian of Congress just helped to fix the ice cream machine at your local McDonald’s.
“That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean,” Elie Mistal The Nation (10/29/2024)
“Election certification under threat,” Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (8/12/2024)
“Melania Trump modeled in US prior to getting work visa,” AP News (11/4/2016)
“They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War,” Andy Greenberg WIRED (4/20/2021)
“Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies,” U.S. Copyright Office Docket No. 2023-5 (10/28/2024)
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Comments
Good news for JD Vance, if he loses the election he can always be a robot ice cream checker.
Jason Valasek
2024-11-04 19:58:59 +0000 UTCSounds like someone doesn't know about the three seashells 👀
Chris Conley
2024-11-04 13:10:52 +0000 UTCI firmly stand with Matt in the McDonald’s ice cream fan camp.
Megan Muse
2024-11-04 01:14:48 +0000 UTCI really tried to stop myself from coming here and giving the correction that the Library of Congress does use the Dewey Decimal System—they use Library of Congress Classification. 🙃 Solid John Cage joke, though.
Kait from Seattle
2024-11-03 23:52:37 +0000 UTCfor the longest time, i thought matt was talking about shells in the ecra legislation and I was trying to work out how the statute might be structured with contained subsections of protection... shalls, lauren. shalls.
lauren
2024-11-02 10:50:49 +0000 UTCThanks! Love the insider info here. And so far as I know it's a five year statute of limitations on revocation of residency but no SOL on revocation of naturalization
Matt Cameron
2024-11-02 00:04:39 +0000 UTCLoved this episode! Thanks for the glimmerings of hope. Matt, thank you as always for speaking so intelligently about immigration issues. In my experience, violations of nonimmigrant and immigrant visas are definitely common, and the laws are absolutely not applied equitably. Just as you said Thomas, it’s the age-old story of differences in privileges. Along the southern border, so-called tourist visa violations frequently result in the deportation of whole families at adjustment of status (green card) time bc no waiver is even available to apply for. Regarding Musk: based on these facts he clearly wasn’t eligible to adjust status under an employment-based visa and would be subject to revocation of naturalization. I’ve done this twice: once for a terrorist and once for a Border Patrol agent who had a previously undisclosed false claim to US citizenship. However, I thought there was a 5 year time limit to revoke citizenship after naturalization? Loved your startup business visa idea!
Status Quo Level Thing
2024-11-01 22:08:55 +0000 UTCI know Matt is a defender but any chance you could switch to prosecute just for this?😋 And the butterfinger one being removed is criminal.
Reese
2024-11-01 14:05:55 +0000 UTC
