Blitz Bureau
WASHINGTON: Elon Musk backs conservative activist Riley Gaines on an issue he’s repeatedly vented about on his social media platform, reported Indian daily The Hindustan Times.
On November 18, former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines joined Elon Musk’s immigration calls and earned his full support. The billionaire Tesla CEO eventually voiced his opinion against the tedious, “ridiculously slow & difficult” immigration procedure to finally be granted a green card in the US. “Legal immigration to America is ridiculously slow & difficult, even for super talented people,” the SpaceX boss wrote on X on November 20. “Need to be fixed.”
Earlier this week, Gaines took to her own SNS profile on Musk’s platform, releasing a video of herself ranting about how her husband “STILL doesn’t have a green card” because of a particular reason. In the original TikTok video, she pointed out that her husband and British swimmer Louis Barker “moved to the United States from Europe six years ago for college.” Even though he “came here legally” and ultimately crossed paths with Gaines at the University of Kentucky, he still allegedly doesn’t have his green card.
The former swimmer also noted that in the meanwhile they even tied the knot in 2022. Despite 2.5 years having elapsed since then, Barker is nowhere near to becoming a US citizen.
Going into the nitty gritty of the tiresome immigration process, she detailed that only after an extended silence did they finally hear from the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), requesting “evidence” of his “completed vaccination record.” Their original plan fell apart as the conservative activist’s husband didn’t have the Covid-19 vaccination, which ultimately hindered his path to attaining US citizenship.
