Elon Musk has made a strong statement warning against uncontrolled large-scale immigration, claiming it can dismantle nations—despite his active backing of the expansive H-1B visa system that brings in skilled and semi-skilled foreign workers.
“Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows unfettered mass immigration,” Musk declared in a video interview he posted to his X account on April 5. “The country will simply cease to exist.”
He elaborated further on his stance by stating: “At the end of the day, it is a numbers game, a numbers situation. If there are a billion people in the world, and let’s say you’re a country of, you know, 50 million, 60 million … even for a country like the United States, which is 350 million, given that there are 8 billion people in the world, it only takes a few percent of the rest of the world to move to the country, to where it is no longer that country.
“It’s not geography — the country is its people. This is a fundamental concept that should be really obvious … If you teleported a bunch of people from some other part of the world to Italy, where the Italian people are no longer because they’ve been teleported to America, then the geographic region would no longer be Italy. It would be that other country.
“A country is its people, not its geography.”

Musk’s remarks are not rooted in the kind of ethnic nationalism that’s common among certain populations, such as Hindu nationalists in India or identity-based movements across Europe.
Rather, his viewpoint is shaped by a desire to protect what he sees as the unique cultural fabric of the United States—a society built on innovation, individual freedom, and an entrepreneurial spirit, all of which he believes are at risk under conditions of unregulated mass immigration.
At the same time, Musk remains an outspoken proponent of the H-1B visa pipeline, which supplies his companies like Tesla with foreign talent while helping him secure greater business access to India’s booming automobile market. Though critics say that programs like H-1B erode the integrity and long-term strength of America’s professional workforce, they are still considerably narrower in scope than President Joe Biden’s approach, which has effectively welcomed more than 9 million migrants from the southern border.
{Matzav.com}