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Anti-immigration
Hostility to immigrants as a group, calls for mass deportation or "remigration", and related claims.
19 documented facts
Posted on X that mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe and that correcting it is the continent's most urgent issue.
“Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe. There is no issue more urgent before the continent than to correct this mistake.”
In a blog post comparing wolves killing sheep in Denmark with "gypsies" he described as "foreign vagrants" camping in Copenhagen's green areas, wrote that as wolves are shot when they get out of control, "gypsies" who take over public spaces should be deported.
“When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel.”
Blog post calling for an end to mass migration, which he described as "importing millions of people from a culturally incompatible third world", and saying that "millions who are already in Europe must go" through "remigration".
“It's also that millions who are already in Europe must go. Remigration has gone from a fringe concept to the mainstream discourse in record time”
Heard by videoconference by the French Senate inquiry committee on the private funding of public policy, said he supports the "remigration" of foreigners who are offenders, undocumented or unemployed for more than twelve months, describing himself as "to the right of the far right" on immigration. He also defended Périclès as a "metapolitical" project; the committee's rapporteur, Colombe Brossel, said the hearing had not answered questions on the transparency of his funding.
“Je suis en faveur de la remigration des étrangers délinquants, sans papiers ou au chômage depuis plus de douze mois”
Responded "100%" to a post stating "Remigration is a moderate position. Demographic replacement is an extremist position", and added a "100" emoji to a post stating "If White men become a minority, we will be slaughtered" and "White solidarity is the only way to survive". Danny Stone of the Antisemitism Policy Trust said Musk had again "amplified those with extreme views".
In a speech in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, after announcing a "permanent pause on Third World migration, including from hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia", said he had asked senators at a past meeting why the US only takes people from "shithole countries" rather than from Norway, Sweden or Denmark, adding "we always take people from Somalia. Places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime." CNN reported that his account matched reports of the January 2018 meeting at which he had been reported to use the phrase, and that it was the first time he explicitly confirmed it.
“Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden – just a few – let us have a few.”
Response: In January 2018 Trump had denied the remark, writing that "this was not the language used".
Blog post about the London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson on 13 September 2025, saying he would no longer dream of moving to London because it is "no longer full of native Brits", calling the march "powerful" and its flags "heartwarming", and rejecting the "far right" label for the marchers.
“Unwilling to resign the rest of the country to the kind of demographic replacement that befell London over the last two decades.”
Addressed by video link Tommy Robinson's "Unite the Kingdom" anti-immigration rally in London, called for the dissolution of Parliament and an early election to remove Keir Starmer's government, and told the crowd that violence was coming to them and that they must fight back or die. Starmer's spokesman condemned "dangerous and inflammatory language which threatens violence and intimidation on our streets".
“Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die.”
As his administration prepared immigration raids and a federal crackdown in Chicago, posted an AI-generated image of himself as an officer in the war film "Apocalypse Now", captioned "Chipocalypse Now", with a post saying Chicago would find out why it is called the Department of War, accompanied by helicopter emojis. Illinois Democrats condemned the post; Governor JB Pritzker said the president was threatening to go to war with an American city.
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning”
Response: White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said local Democratic leaders were "more upset about a post from the President" than about weekend shootings in Chicago.
In a WhatsApp group with Trump administration officials, whose screenshots were reported by the Washington Post in July 2025, described DEI and immigration as forms of discrimination that cut the children of Trump voters out of higher education and corporate jobs.
“The combination of DEI and immigration is politically lethal”
Response: Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to Fortune's request for comment.
As a DOGE member at the Social Security Administration, said on Fox & Friends on April 2, 2025 that DOGE had found "thousands" of noncitizens who received Social Security numbers on the voter rolls of "a handful of cooperative states" and that "many of them had voted", and later said on a podcast that this was "a move to import voters". Social Security and voting experts told NPR the claims mischaracterized the program and doubted their accuracy, and NPR reported they appeared to rely on data that court records suggest DOGE was not supposed to access.
“I think this was a move to import voters.”
Response: Neither Gracias nor a DOGE spokesperson responded to NPR's questions about how the Social Security data was accessed. Government lawyers said in court filings that Gracias never had access to SSA data or personally identifiable information.
At the Munich Security Conference, a week before German federal elections, said nothing was more urgent than mass migration and that there was "no room for firewalls", the term for German parties' refusal to cooperate with the far-right AfD. Germany's defense minister called the speech unacceptable.
“Of all the pressing challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration.”
During the presidential debate with Kamala Harris, repeated the baseless claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets. Springfield officials had said there were "no credible reports or specific claims" of pets being harmed by members of the immigrant community.
“In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats. They're eating -- they're eating the pets of the people that live there.”
During the riots that followed the Southport murders in the UK, which included attacks on hotels housing immigrants, posted "Civil war is inevitable" under a video of the unrest whose poster attributed it to migration and open borders. The Prime Minister's spokesman said there was "no justification" for such comments.
“Civil war is inevitable”
L'Humanité revealed the "Périclès" plan backed by Stérin: about €150 million over ten years, naming "socialism, wokism, Islamism, immigration" as enemies, aiming to help the Rassemblement National win 300 towns in 2026 and to build a reserve of 1,000 people for government posts ahead of 2027, and claiming a "relationship of trust" with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen.
Response: Stérin's teams confirmed the plan to Le Journal du Dimanche, describing the document as "un peu daté".
Posted that Democrats do not deport undocumented immigrants because each is a likely future vote, one of repeated posts about Democrats "importing voters". PolitiFact rated the claim False, noting more than 3.6 million removals, returns and expulsions from February 2021 to September 2023 and that immigrants cannot vote in federal elections until they become citizens.
“Dems won't deport, because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.”
Shared a post criticising German NGO sea-rescue operations in the Mediterranean that said it hoped the far-right AfD would win elections "to stop this European suicide", asked whether the German public was aware, and wrote that bringing migrants to Italian soil "has invasion vibes". The German Foreign Ministry replied that the operations were saving lives.
“Is the German public aware of this?”
In a video interview with the right-leaning site The National Pulse, said undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country", language CNN notes is often used by white supremacists and nativists. CNN reported on 6 October 2023 that the interview had been published the previous week.
“It's poisoning the blood of our country. It's so bad, and people are coming in with disease.”
The US Justice Department sued SpaceX, alleging that from September 2018 to May 2022 it discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them because of their citizenship status, wrongly citing export control laws. Of nearly 10,000 hires in that period, one was an asylee, according to the department. Under the Trump administration, the department moved in February 2025 to dismiss the case with prejudice.
Response: SpaceX denied wrongdoing, saying in a November 2023 filing that export laws impose "strict limitations on who it can employ". Musk wrote that "SpaceX was told repeatedly that hiring anyone who was not a permanent resident" would break the law and called the case "weaponization of the DOJ for political purposes".