Tesla founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he intends to Eagle Pass, Texas, which has been the epicenter of the recent surge in migrant numbers at the southern border.
FOX News correspondent Griff Jenkins reports from the Texas-Mexico border on the unprecedented migrant surge overflowing shelter capacities.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday he will visit the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, in the coming days as the ongoingMusk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX and X, has shown significant interest in the ongoing crisis and has been posting about it frequently on X -- formerly known as Twitter. In a post early Tuesday morning, he said that he had spoken to Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, about the crisis and how it was a"serious issue."
"They are being overwhelmed by unprecedented numbers – just hit an all-time high and still growing!" he said.Elon Musk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Tesla, at the Viva Tech fair in Paris on Friday, June 16, 2023.after a brief lull in the early summer. Numbers rocketed in July and August, with the more than 230,000 encounters at the border, marking the highest August on record.
Those numbers look set to be even higher in September, with scenes this month of thousands of mostly single adult Venezuelan male migrants flooding into Eagle Pass. The crisis caused border authorities to shut down bridges and surge resources to the area in an effort to cope.
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