Immigration on the Joe Rogan Experience

“DOJ has been attacking SpaceX, for example, for not hiring asylum seekers, even though it is illegal for SpaceX to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident …”

Musk claims the DOJ sued SpaceX for discriminating against asylum seekers even though ITAR export-control law made it illegal for SpaceX to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident, framing the lawsuit as a damned-if-you-do government catch-22.

“because we know how many people are coming through the numbers that are being reported. I think it's close to 9 million now, just over the course of the Biden …”

Close to 9 million people have come across the border over the course of the Biden administration.

“She said the people that are coming in to this country, most of them it's because of climate change.”

AOC said that most people coming into the country are doing so because of climate change.

“And the tax burden for health care for illegals was supposed to be 3 billion. I think they now estimate it's 9 billion. But that number will scale to infinity.”

Musk claims California's free healthcare for undocumented immigrants was projected to cost $3 billion but is now estimated at $9 billion, calling it a magnet for illegal immigration.

“$200 billion. And that's a way low number. That's a way low. You know, it's interesting. New York has always been like, you know, sort of like always looking f…”

Trump claims the federal government has spent roughly $200 billion nationally (with New York alone spending $100 billion) on services and benefits for migrants.

“I don't understand why, okay, you have a wall or you have a. You know, I built 570 miles of wall. Everyone said I built a lot of wall.”

Trump claims he built 570 miles of border wall during his presidency.

“When other countries are allowed to empty their prisons into our country with murderers, we had 13,099 murderers dropped in our country over the last three yea…”

Trump claims 13,099 murderers were released into the United States by other countries emptying their prisons over the prior three years.

“if you look at say um you know FEMA like the the agency that was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York”

Musk claims FEMA (an agency meant to help Americans in natural disasters) was paying for illegal aliens to stay at luxury hotels in New York, including sending $80 million after Trump ordered it stopped.

“But it's currently, I think it's like 600,000 are registered to vote illegal aliens in New York.”

Musk claims approximately 600,000 illegal aliens are registered to vote in New York state and city elections.

“The Biden administration was also suing SpaceX. They had this massive lawsuit against SpaceX for SpaceX not hiring Asylum seekers.”

Musk claims the Biden administration's DOJ sued SpaceX specifically for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees.

“I saw a number on like 300,000 or something like that. Something crazy like that. Let's say it's only 10% of that. That's still insane.”

Musk claims roughly 300,000 migrant children who crossed the border are missing/unaccounted for, suggesting mass child trafficking.

“70% of the people that they've arrested have criminal records. What the Democrats are always saying is only 14% of them have been convicted of a violent crime.”

Kennedy claims 70% of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had criminal records, disputing a Democratic figure that only 14% were convicted of violent crimes.

“I did look at a chart recently because I thought it was fascinating. The number of American citizens that were arrested what percentage during what Obama did v…”

Kennedy claims more American citizens were mistakenly arrested by immigration enforcement during the Obama administration than during the current Trump administration's ICE operations.

“What we're seeing is triple digit increases in the number of illegals in every swing state. In some cases, 700% increases. These are gigantic numbers.”

Musk claims government data shows triple-digit (in some cases 700%) increases in the number of undocumented immigrants in swing states, implying a deliberate strategy to flip elections permanently to Democrats.