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President Donald Trump held a brief exchange with a journalist and talked about Elon Musk and his American citizenship.
South African businessman Elon Musk speaking with the US president, Donal Trump, during a press conference at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington (USA). (PHOTO FREE PRESS: PL hemeroteca)
The CNN media in Spanish published that the president Donald Trump He went on a trip to Florida, before boarding the helicopter in the White House, he had this exchange with a journalist, who asked if he would deport Elon Musk.
“I don’t know, we’ll have to look. We suddenly have to put Doge against Elon. Do you know what Doge is? Doge is the monster that suddenly has to go and eat Elon, wouldn’t it be terrible? He receives many subsidies, but it is very annoying because the mandate of electric vehicles is over,” Trump replied.
The comment occurs in the middle of Differences between the US president and Musk about economic policies. Musk support Trump during his campaign with US $ 275 million and public support from its X Platform.
The founder of Spacex and Tesla created a commission known as Doge, whose purpose is to cut the federal expenditure.
Elon Musk citizenship
Musk was born in South Africa and also has Canadian citizenship. In 2002 he acquired American citizenship for naturalization. He entered the country in 1995 as a student.
His brother, Kimbal Musk, said in 2013 that investors discovered that they were irregular migrants. Musk has said they were in a “gray zone.”
Legal framework for denaturation
According to the Department of Justice, naturalized persons can lose their citizenship if it is shown that they incurred fraud, hid information or committed serious crimes. On July 11, a memorandum was disseminated in which denaturation appears as one of the priorities of the civil division.
The policy contemplates ten categories of causes and reserves the right to include others. In June, a naturalized British citizen, Elliot Duke, was denatured by a conviction for child pornography.
“Many of them were born in our country. I think we should also get them out. So that is the next thing we work together,” Trump said when referring to people born in the US. UU.