#30
What's your view on immigration / open borders?
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2023 to 2025
First asked Dec 16, 2023, most recently Nov 30, 2025. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 2 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 5 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Dec 16, 2023 · Atreju Festival · asked by Interviewer
Q: Immigration is coming in Europe and is coming in America from the south of America and then Europe from the south of Mediterranean Sea. What do you think about that?
Well, I think one can't depend on other countries for immigration. And in fact, if you look at, say, the population worldwide, and this is almost everywhere in the world, and it seems to be a function of how once a country industrializes, once a country urbanizes, the population immediately starts to decline. So one could say, for example, like China could not possibly solve its population with immigration. Because …
Dec 16, 2023 · Atreju Festival · asked by Interviewer
Q: What do you think about this approach of Europe approach as building?
Well, I should say like to be clear on immigration overall I'm very much in favor of legal immigration. I think that generally I think one should welcome to a country anyone who is willing to work hard and is honest has high integrity and will add to any given country. If somebody is an asset to the country, why not have them join? That's obviously a great thing to do. So I think it's good actually to have an …
Mar 18, 2024 · The Don Lemon Show · asked by Don Lemon
Q: But undocumented immigrants cannot vote in federal elections. So how is that possible?
Right? Well, you're conflating two things. One is great replacement theory. The other is which I don't subscribe to that. I'm simply saying that there is an incentive here if liberal immigrants wish I could have a very strong bias to at least everything I've read. It's very strong bias to vote Democrat. The more that come into the country, the more they're likely to vote in that direction. But it is, in my view, a …
May 6, 2024 · Milken Institute Global Conference · asked by Michael Milken
Q: Yeah, bizarrely, it's difficult and agonizing slow to immigrate to the US legally, but it's trivial and fast to enter illegally. This obviously makes no sense, right?
I mean, once again, I agree with that guy. So yeah, I mean, if anyone here has been through the legal immigration process, I mean, I've been through it's only gotten worse since 9 11. And with COVID it's an, it's a sort of Kafkaesque, very long, bizarre process to immigrate legally to the U.S. I mean, I have friends of mine who they can't get their wife to have a green card. It's like insane. So on the other hand, …
Oct 31, 2025 · The Joe Rogan Experience · asked by Joe Rogan
Q: Well, especially if you don't punish them and if you don't deport them and if you are just like, but what is the purpose of allowing all those people into the country?
Well, let me explain because you mentioned, for example, how much say Hillary and Obama have changed their tune from prior speeches where they were hard nosed about not letting in anyone who's a criminal into the country having secure borders, all that stuff. So why did they change the tune? The reason is that they discovered that those people vote for them. That's why they want the open borders.
Oct 31, 2025 · The Joe Rogan Experience · asked by Joe Rogan
Q: Well, that's why California's hired so many illegals to do it. Have you seen those numbers?
Yeah, I mean, the problem is like when you, when people don't know how to drive a semi truck, which is actually a Hard thing to do. Then they crash and kill people. Yeah, a friend of mine's wife was killed by an illegal driving a truck and she was just out biking and there was an illegal. He didn't know how to drive the truck or something, I mean, and he ran her over. So I mean, the thing is, for something like you …
Nov 30, 2025 · People by WTF · asked by Nikhil Kamath
Q: Why, why has that narrative changed of late?
Well, I think there's different schools of thought. It's not like unanimous. But under the Biden administration, it was basically a total free for all with like no border controls, which unless you've got border controls, you're not a country. So you had massive amounts of illegal immigration under Biden. And it actually also had like somewhat of a negative selection effect. So if there's a massive financial …
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@elonmusk · May 24, 2024
@BillMelugin_ I’m in favor of greatly increasing our legal immigration, but hardcore stopping illegal immigration. This guy will probably will actually work hard, but there should be a probationary period where working hard and good behavior are required to stay in America.
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Aug 29, 2024
@ianmiles Legal immigration is great, illegal immigration where there are no checks regarding who is coming in is civilizational suicide
View on X ↗@elonmusk · Sep 22, 2024
The legal immigration process in America needs to be greatly streamlined and expanded, while illegal should be shut down. If someone is talented, hard-working and honest, they are an asset to the country. https://t.co/iGceFXBD1S
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