Media reports show Elon Musk worked illegally in America early in his career, illustrating some of the challenges in the immigration system.

But The Post revealed that Musk never enrolled at all–which would had invalidated his student visa. Instead he worked on his start-up. Dropping out of education to work, even if technically unpaid, is straightforwardly illegal, Leon Fresco, a former immigration attorney at the Department of Justice told the newspaper.

Elon Musk has become a regular campaign surrogate for Donald Trump in the presidential race against Vice President Kamala Harris.