The immigration policy of the Joe Biden administration, which is supported by the US Democratic Party, is designed to influence the country's domestic policy through demography, said businessman and billionaire Elon Musk. 

“Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. Census currently counts all county residents, regardless of citizenship, for voting purposes!”

— Musk wrote on his page on his social network X.

The billionaire recalled that on March 8, representatives of the Democratic Party in the Senate voted to reject the adoption of an amendment that would have prohibited the counting of illegal immigrants in states when distributing seats in Congress and Electoral College votes.

“Since illegal immigrants are mostly found in Democratic states, in the House and Presidential elections the votes shift by about 5% in favor of the left, and this is enough to change the entire balance of power!

This is the main reason why the Biden administration is accepting record numbers of illegal immigrants and carrying out so few deportations,” Musk said.

At the same time, the businessman rejected accusations of bias and recalled that he himself is an immigrant to the United States.

According to him, he supports legal migration, but getting to America legally is disproportionately more difficult.

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) of legal immigration to the United States is incredibly complex and painfully slow, but entering the country illegally is quick and easy.

This, of course, is complete nonsense,” the billionaire concluded.

Flow of illegal immigrants 

Let us remember that after coming to the White House in 2021, Democrat Joe Biden softened US migration policy, canceling a number of restrictive orders and provisions adopted by Donald Trump, which caused a sharp increase in the influx of illegal migrants into the United States.

The situation with migrants reached its peak in the second half of 2023, after the special order, the so-called Section 42, ended, a regulation that allowed American authorities to quickly deport migrants due to fears of the spread of coronavirus.

According to American media reports, more than 225 thousand migrants crossed the southern US border from the Mexican side in December.

This influx of migrants led to unexpected consequences, one of which was an open conflict between the Texas authorities represented by Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration.

Abbott began to take increasingly radical measures to protect the border and prevent illegal immigrants from crossing it, which the White House and US federal agencies tried to prevent.

On January 12, 2024, members of the Texas National Guard and police, following orders from the governor, took control of the park area at Eagle Pass and stopped allowing federal border patrol agents through it.

The Biden administration then sent a letter to Texas authorities demanding that federal authorities immediately restore access to that section of the border.

However, state authorities refused to comply with Washington's demands. 

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The governor's actions were supported by a number of heads of other states.

On January 25, the governors of 25 states published an open letter in which they accused the Joe Biden administration of being unwilling to protect the American border and fight illegal migration.

The document noted that Biden and his administration have refused to enforce existing immigration laws and are allowing mass paroles of migrants who entered the country illegally across America.

On March 7, House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that during Joe Biden's tenure as US President, about 15 million illegal migrants could have entered the country.

In turn, the famous journalist Lara Logan, a former correspondent for CBS News and Fox News, commenting on the situation with the migration crisis in the United States, said on March 8 that the Biden administration is not only condoning the influx of illegal immigrants into America, but is also deliberately trying to hide its actions.

“What they have done is to adopt globalist policies and implement them, bypassing legislation, bypassing voters... to the detriment of national sovereignty and our own laws... They have used their capabilities to the fullest for this purpose, and their success has surpassed all of theirs wildest dreams.

As a result, all these people came here.

But from day one, the authorities didn't want you to see it.

They hid it.

They denied journalists access, removed the word 'illegal' from the vocabulary of the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, the National Security Agency and the entire US government,” Logan said in an interview with journalist Stephen Gardner.

The White House was also called to account in the US Congress.

On March 8, a group of parliamentarians sent an open letter to the Biden administration demanding an end to the program, under which, according to some sources, 320,000 migrants were flown into the country.

“Joe Biden, his impeached Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas and others in the White House are using the CBP One app and every other loophole in existence to smuggle hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country,” Fox News quoted one of the letter’s authors, a congressman, as saying. Brian Babin.

Quantitative advantage 

American political scientist Dmitry Drobnitsky, in a conversation with RT, noted that the amendment that Elon Musk is talking about will no longer affect the 2024 elections, but may affect the 2028 elections.

“The census, based on the results of which states are given seats in Congress and the Electoral College, has already taken place.

So these actions of the Democratic Party are aimed more at the future,” the expert explained.

  • Texas National Guard on the Mexican border

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At the same time, as Drobnitsky emphasized, migrants live not only in democratic states, so their influx and naturalization with the opportunity to take part in elections help the Democratic Party not only maintain its positions, but also recapture territory and legislative districts from the Republicans.

“It is no coincidence that such a fight against illegal immigrants was launched in Texas, where there are a lot of them and where, by the way, Elon Musk’s business is located.

Now these flows will be redirected to California.

As a result, the influx of illegal immigrants and their naturalization by 2028 will help save the situation in this state during the next elections,” said the political scientist.

However, the White House's plans for illegal immigrants are obviously more ambitious than changing the balance of electoral districts in just a few states, Drobnitsky said.

“When Biden came to the White House, his plan was broader.

“He began a serious reform to weaken immigration laws and legalize migrants with the goal of gaining several million new voters over time to influence policy at the federal level,” the analyst said.

Vladimir Bruter, an expert at the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies, also believes that illegal immigrants arriving in the United States are unlikely to be able to influence the outcome of the upcoming presidential elections in November 2024.

“There are four key states in the United States that influence the outcome of the presidential election.

Illegal immigrants don’t go there, and there aren’t very many of them there.

But in other places, such as Texas and California, there is indeed an imbalance between the indigenous population and migrants from Central and South America.

The influx of illegal immigrants in the near future will generally only affect who will get several seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the US Congress.

This is unlikely to have any impact on the upcoming presidential elections,” the expert explained in a commentary to RT.

Minorities are always reluctant to vote in elections, so Democrats should not count on significant support from them in 2024.

However, in the future the situation may change, says Vladimir Bruter.

“The US Democratic Party should not rely on naturalized migrants now: they will not help them win the 2024 elections.

Democrats need to drive their nuclear electorate to the polls, which does not always work out well.

But even the quantitative advantage in voters gained with the help of illegal immigrants will sooner or later develop into a qualitative one.

And in the future, of course, it will become increasingly difficult for the Republican Party to win elections,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.