Elon Musk: “Essentially we're paying people to come here from somewhere…”

“The least amount. I guess maybe like the biggest thing is that. I guess the biggest single thing is that there are massive transfer payments going to. Illegal immigrants. Like, massive. Essentially we're paying people to come here from somewhere else. In vast numbers, including flying them in. So it's not like you need a border wall. If you're flying them in. Then fast tracking them to citizenship and.” (05:55–06:00)

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