I would prefer to just discuss US politics in this US politics thread, if you don’t want to discuss US politics then I don’t know why your here but feel free to stop replying to me.
I haven’t looked into it, but assume it’s purely transactional. Trump has offered a tax break or regulatory change that benefits Musk. No way does he actually believe most of the stuff he’s been talking about.
Simply put, no. It is a scheduling app that attempts to reduce the large amounts of random walkups at the southern border crossings by allocating an appointment time and - presumably - reduces those held in detention accommodation awaiting a hearing . At that appointment you apply for whatever entry condition you are trying to get in on - asylum , immigrant visa, non immigrant visa , whatever - and you’re then processed through the relevant processes and requirements - passports / proof of fear of torture / persecution / court hearings , etc. There’s no difference between walking/ getting to / across the border and claiming assylum vs getting a CBP appointment and claiming assylum beyond the fact that they know you’re coming in advance. It’s merely trying to impart some sense of planned order on inherent chaos. In both situations, what happens after presenting to the border points and getting a hearing are the same. You prove your access worthiness with whatever is demanded for your entry application. Future ( rumoured , fear mongered, invented, proposed) changes to assylum and visa regulations are nothing to do with the app.
Also worth noting that Amnesty International believe that the CPB app makes things unfairly difficult for assylum seekers.
Trump has offered Elon to head up some kind of ‘efficiency commission’
“I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government, and making recommendations for drastic reforms,” Trump told the crowd.
If RFKJr becomes Health Secretary then he will probably gut the HHS. If Musk becomes some super Auditor general then he will probably cut the FAA, abolish the NHTSA and severly compromise NASA’s budget to the point of outsourcing all future space requirements to the private sector - which will be you guess who…
Were this to happen, the twitter melties from both Musk and his fans would be all-time. It’d be the most entertaining thing that political theatre has seen for decades