Billionaire Elon Musk attempted to correct the record on his immigration views after he claimed the press had wrongly labeled him as "anti-immigrant." 

"Because I am raising concerns about the flood of unvetted illegal immigrants overwhelming American cities, the press will often characterize me as ‘anti-immigrant,’" Musk wrote on X Thursday. 

"As an immigrant myself, nothing could be further from the truth," he said. 

"I am very much in favor of increased and expedited legal immigration for anyone who is talented, hard-working and honest," Musk continued. 

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"It is bizarrely difficult and agonizingly slow to immigrate to the USA legally, but trivial and fast to enter illegally! This obviously makes no sense."

Nearly 7.3 million migrants have illegally crossed the southwest border under President Biden's watch, a number greater than the individual population of 36 states, a Fox News analysis found.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report for fiscal 2023 shows that the number of illegal immigrants on the non-detained docket has soared from 3.7 million in FY 2021 to nearly 4.8 million in FY 2022 to nearly 6.2 million in FY 2023.

Musk, who legally immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa, has ramped up his scorching criticism of Biden's border policies in recent months. He visited the U.S.-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, in September, when he declared the "situation is beyond insane and growing fast." 

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When a bipartisan group of senators introduced compromise border security legislation last month, Musk was among the bill's critics who argued it would have normalized high levels of illegal immigration.

Last week, he called the legislation "diabolical" and argued the failed bill "deserved to die," while mocking legacy media coverage of the issue.

Musk responded to an X post from the Biden-Harris re-election campaign, which shared a clip from ABC News' "Good Morning America" that discussed the bill. The ABC News reporter said the tanked bipartisan deal included some of the "toughest reforms in decades" but "Trump pressured Republicans to kill that bill to deny President Biden a political win." 

Musk disagreed and ripped how the ABC News story framed the issue.

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"People who get their news from legacy TV live in a fake alternate reality. Those so-called ‘toughest reforms’ would have made invasion-level migration permanent. That diabolical ‘Border Bill’ deserved to die and shame on those who supported it," Musk posted on X. 

The bipartisan border bill included an "emergency border authority" to mandate Title 42-style expulsions of migrants when migration levels exceed 5,000 a day over a seven-day rolling average. 

It also would have narrowed asylum eligibility while expediting the process from years to months, provide immediate work permits for asylum seekers and fund a massive increase in staffing at the border and more immigration judges. In addition, it included increased numbers of green cards, extra funding for NGOs and cities receiving migrants, $650 million for border wall funding and $450 million for countries to take back and re-settle illegal immigrants.

While Biden endorsed the deal as a tough but fair way to give him the authority to solve the border crisis, Republicans in the House immediately declared it a non-starter and conservative opposition in the Senate quickly stacked up.

Musk has unambiguously sided with conservatives on the migrant crisis and accused Democrats of permitting high levels of illegal immigration so that they will vote blue in the future. He has also said Democrats are reluctant to deport illegal aliens who commit crimes since it would be akin to losing potential voters.

"Dems won’t deport, because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point," Musk posted on Feb. 26. "That simple incentive explains what seems to be insane behavior."

Fox News Digital's Brian Flood, Michael Dorgan and Eric Revell contributed to this report.

A Berkeley professor has moved into his office for a "sit-in" after accusing the Northern California school of an "inability to make difficult and important decisions" regarding antisemitism on campus, according to reports. 

Professor Ron Hassner, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the school, brought a sleeping bag into his office Thursday after writing a letter to UC Chancellor Carol Christ and Provost Benjamin Hermalin.

"If my students feel that they cannot walk safely across campus without being bullied, then I will not cross campus either," Hassner wrote, according to The Jewish News of Northern California. 

"I’m thinking that maybe by doing this — giving the students some hope, showing them that someone cares, the door’s open, there’s a light in the window, please come by, let’s talk — I can avert the next disaster." 

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In a separate letter to students posted to X by Los Angeles-based Dr. Afshine Emrani, Hassner said he would now be teaching all of his classes on Zoom and encouraged his colleagues to do the same until the campus is safe from antisemitism. He told The Jewish News eight colleagues so far have agreed to start teaching their classes on Zoom in support of him.

"I will stay in my office until we take necessary steps to prevent violence between students," he added. "I will teach, eat, and sleep in my office. My office will be open at all hours of the day and night, on weekdays and weekends, to all students who do not feel safe, or who have been subjected to antisemitic abuse, or who wish to chat. 

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"I will also leave a light on in my office window at all times, so that all students walking by on Bancroft Ave. can see that at least one faculty member is sleeping as badly at night as they are."

Berkeley and other campuses have been the targets of antisemitic attacks since Hamas launched an unprovoked attack on Israel in October, beginning the war. 

"In contrast to recent protests, my protest is non-confrontational, non-violent, and legal," Hassner added. "It will be easy to ignore, especially in the first few weeks before visitors and media find me and my office in a rather disheveled state. After that, it will become an increasingly embarrassing public display of the university’s inability to make difficult and important decisions."

Hassner wrote in his letter to the administration he is "sorely afraid" over a planned protest by pro-Israel students expected to march on Monday to the school’s Sather Gate, which pro-Palestinian protesters have been blocking for a month, according to The Jewish News. 

In October, Hassner and a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the school put out a joint letter to students saying that while they "disagree vehemently," they still treat each other with "respect and dignity" and were "heartbroken to hear of incidents of near violence between students in recent days. We will not tolerate our students harming each other."  

Fox News Digital has reached out to Berkeley and Hassner for comment. 

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The school told The Jewish News it "remains committed to fostering an environment conducive to robust free speech and in which all members of its community feel that they may engage in campus life without fear of harassment. The administration is committed to confronting antisemitism and holds professor Hassner in great esteem, and it is in conversation with him about his concerns."