- Tech billionaire Elon Musk visited the southern border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday with plans to livestream a tour of the area to give people a sense of the real situation with the ongoing migrant crisis.
- Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX and X, has shown significant interest in the ongoing crisis along the border and has been posting about it frequently on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday accused a Stetson-wearing Musk of taking a “joyride” to the U.S.-Mexico border, after he traveled to the Texan city of Eagle Pass and warned some “pretty extreme people” were arriving illegally.