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Legal immigrant Elon Musk and second-generation immigrant, Valor Equity Partner’s Antonio Gracias, went viral Sunday, for revealing that an estimated 2.1 million non-citizens received Social Security numbers in 2024, up from 270,000 in 2021.
A video shared on X showed Musk and Gracias on stage discussing the data at a 100-minute town hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin, ahead of today’s (April 1) state Supreme Court election, according to Business Insider.
“This isn’t political,” Gracias explained about the data, noting that his parents and siblings are all first-generation immigrant and that he is pro-legal immigration. The issue appeared to be within a process that allowed non-legal immigrants arriving over the northern and southern borders to apply to work permits and immediately receive a Social Security number without an interview or even showing a form of identification, MoneyControl reported.
How Did This System Work?
In order to fully understand how so many people received Social Security numbers in 2024, Gracias went to the border and spoke to border patrol. “I went to Laredo and I went to Bronzeville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to a Border Patrol officer and you tell them you want to come in. They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under thirteen twenty-five or they can make an administrative offense like a parking ticket basically,” he explained.
“They were told to do that, make an administrative offense under the last administration. And you go walk across the border, they do what’s called a release your neurocognizance, and they give you an NTA, notice to appear, which appear to judge. The wait times on judges are like average six years, you’ll get GROC, you’ll see it on immigration judges. There’s only seven hundred of them. This is five point five million people,” Gracias continued.
“So what happens then? Once you’re in the country and you’ve got asylum through one of these pathways, we’ve mapped the whole thing out, you can apply for a work document. You file a seven sixty-five, it’s the work form. You get this form called the seven sixty-six, That’s the authorization. And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview. No ID.”
Criminal Issues
Human traffickers are estimated to have made $13 to $15 billion off the process described by Gracias, that money moving “around the world.” Much of this money came from those looking to come to the U.S. illegally who paid cartels to help them.
“There are thirty thousand children that have not appeared on the notice to appear already. ICE knows this. Thirty thousand children, two hundred and seventy thousand children didn’t even get notices to appear. ICE told us that kids are being trafficked back and forth across the border to complete families to make this easier. This is a human tragedy,” Gracias continued. He also noted that countless people likely died on their journey to the U.S.
“The tragedy the human tragedy this created is extraordinary. That’s the real problem. This is America. We don’t do this here in America. We don’t do this here in America. People come here legally, and that’s great. Elon came here legally. My parents came here legally. That’s the way to do it. This is outrageous.”
Political Concerns
Musk argued that this was allowed to happen because former President Joe Biden and his administration were “asleep,” allowing for “a massive large scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep blue, one party state from which there would be no escape.”
He later added that the process constitutes what he considers “the biggest voter fraud thing in history by far.” Had the system been “left unchecked, it would have succeeded.”
“The voter ID requirement in this state is super important because of this. It’s a Social Security number. It’s not supposed to be a Federal ID number, but it basically is. That’s how you access all the benefits. This is why we need voter ID, because this thing is not secure,” Gracias argued. “You could walk into a Social Security office today, today as an adult America, and get a Social Security number enumerated with simply answering six or seven simple questions and showing some forms of ID that are not federal ID.”
