{"id":1611932,"date":"2022-08-18T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T06:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611932"},"modified":"2022-08-18T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:56:31","slug":"elon-musk-reacts-to-border-crisis-says-lacking-media-attention-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-reacts-to-border-crisis-says-lacking-media-attention-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk &#8220;Lacking Media Attention \u2018Strange\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-reacts-to-border-crisis-says-lacking-media-attention-strange%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tesla CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> is reacting to the recording-breaking number of illegal immigrants walking through the Southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border\">border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s richest person was replying to reporting from Fox News\u2019s Bill Melugin, who posted on Twitter drone footage of a group of hundreds of illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border at Eagle Pass, Texas, into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Melugin cited Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics showing border agents to have encountered 400,000 illegal immigrants so far in the Del Rio sector in Fiscal Year 2022 (since October 2021), a number that is already more than double the total number of encounters from Fiscal Year 2021. This number does not include \u201cget-aways\u201d\u2014illegal crossers who evaded apprehension.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Strange that this receives very little attention in the media<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1558912698502549506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrange that this receives very little attention in the media,\u201d Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1558912698502549506\">wrote<\/a> in response to Melugin on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, a self-portrayed political moderate and a design engineer by trade, has shared his perspective with his 100 million-plus following on a wide range of issues beyond cars and rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire\u2019s comments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-border-crisis\">border crisis<\/a>, for example, were the latest in his series of criticism of the current administration and the Democratic Party in general; others include his comments on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/elon-musk-reveals-who-he-believes-is-actually-driving-the-democratic-party_4543140.html?utm_source=ai&#038;utm_medium=search\">influence<\/a> of labor unions on the Democratic party, the Spygate collusion scandal involving Clinton-affiliated Democrats, and the Biden White House\u2019s alleged sidelining of Tesla\u2019s role in the electric vehicle market.<\/p>\n<p> The Bigger Picture <\/p>\n<p>The backstory to the exchange between Musk and Melugin features an ever increasing surge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illegal-immigration\">illegal immigration<\/a>, overextended Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resources, and an administration that actively strives to undo Trump-era \u201cAmerica First\u201d immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle Pass is only one of the regions along the Southwest border where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk is reacting to the recording-breaking number of illegal immigrants walking through the Southern border. 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