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SpaceX Discriminated Against Refugees in Hiring, DOJ Says

Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated for years against refugees and people granted political asylum who were seeking jobs at the rocket company, the US Justice Department said in a lawsuit. Bloomberg’s Eric Johnson joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to break it down on “Bloomberg Technology.” ——– Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated for years against refugees and people granted political asylum who were seeking jobs at the rocket company, the US Justice Department said in a lawsuit. Bloomberg’s Eric Johnson joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to break it down on “Bloomberg Technology.”
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55 Comments

  1. Pamela

    August 25, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
    It’s illegal to hire illegal aliens
    Besides, Americans need jobs more than illegal aliens do.
    American citizens doesn’t get the free housing free medical benefits illegal aliens get.
    American citizens have to pay it.
    It’s the working Americans that pay for this Country

  2. EmotionalQuotient

    August 25, 2023 at 3:22 pm

    Let’s say, Musk even gave jobs to cirizens who were less qualified than the refugees. But enterprise doesn’t continue to exist if that Taiwan refugee( implicit Chinese spy) gets Spacex next plans or tech development process to be copied by China. Biden’s fundraisers have got a lot of Chinese funds to vouch for them- ‘10% cut to the big guy’ as Trump mentioned.
    – Or maybe biden is anxious as musk didn’t send ekection funds yet!

  3. Tltnation

    August 25, 2023 at 3:26 pm

    Hire them at NASA.

  4. Sandra Chank

    August 25, 2023 at 3:42 pm

    So what….Its his business. Another ‘hit’ job by DOJ.

  5. Duran

    August 25, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    Space X only hires American citizens for national security purposes according to Musk🤏

    • Steveo Bee

      August 25, 2023 at 5:13 pm

      They can clean bathrooms and empty trash cans.

  6. Duran

    August 25, 2023 at 4:04 pm

    Government agencies r incompetent & contradicting themselves😡🤬Musk said that governmental agencies force him to only hire American citizens for national security purposes🤏Before that the SEC sued crypto blockchain for being unregistered securities & at the same time the CFTC sued the same crypto blockchain for being unregistered commodity 🥴

  7. ricardo vega

    August 25, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    WTF ? What can illegals knows about Space Techs ?🤔

  8. Magik Mycology

    August 25, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    You guys sound so stupid 😂😂. AMERICANS DESERVE THESE JOBS MORE THAN ANY BORDER HOPPER OR ‘LEGAL RESIDENT ALIEN’ – thank you very much.😑. Miss us with this BS

  9. HT

    August 25, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    The nihilist Biden administration is trying to hold back Life’s progress across the stars. It wants Life to die on earth with the next statistically inevitable cosmic mishap.

  10. UnSilent

    August 25, 2023 at 4:50 pm

    Refugees? No, not if they jumped our border illegally, that makes them “illegal immigrants.”
    Marxist Democrats are the root of all evil in this country!

  11. Lemont Adams

    August 25, 2023 at 5:05 pm

    America 🇺🇸 committing Suicide

    • Steveo Bee

      August 25, 2023 at 5:12 pm

      You mean the government is killing America

  12. Steveo Bee

    August 25, 2023 at 5:11 pm

    They can clean the bathrooms and empty garbage cans. I don’t think I would let them touch food unless they have cooking experience.

  13. deenz martin

    August 25, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    another nakedly political act of lawfare by the biden administration. scary.

  14. John Smith

    August 25, 2023 at 6:00 pm

    Unlike Biden, Elon is America first.

  15. Cindy Navarro

    August 25, 2023 at 6:07 pm

    Both security clearances and skills are necessary for some jobs or companies. Equal and identical do not mean the same thing. I hate to make it political, but Biden’s diversity hires are proof that not everyone is competent or qualified to do a job. And Security Clearances cannot be ignored. When my husband had to have a high-security clearance for a job, my background was also investigated. Qualifications, skills, education, capabilities, trustworthiness, loyalty, and common sense are much more important when it comes to hiring practices.

  16. Natalie Naumann

    August 25, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    He’s not allowed per us law, funny how doj doesn’t know the law pertaining to spaceX designation ie….NASA, anything with boaster rockets come on now there is a law.. personal have to be citizens.

  17. Dobs R

    August 25, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    It’s against the law to only hire citizens?

  18. Car Guy

    August 25, 2023 at 6:13 pm

    Hooray for Elon. Its his business. Lets keep the diversities over there at O’Bidens business.

  19. Ruth Storkel

    August 25, 2023 at 7:16 pm

    He can hire LEGAL citizens…NOT ILLEGALS.

  20. Becky Hibler

    August 25, 2023 at 8:32 pm

    Oh my God they cross our border illegally and then they try to go for the Asylum bulshit hell no they should not get a job before an American citizen they should ship them back I’m sick and tired of the our government taking care of these people that are breaking our laws and then trying to give them jobs instead of our own citizens and then are you going to be able to trust them because these are very high-profile jobs hell no send them back I love ELON MUSK GOD BLESS YOU buddy and keep doing what you’re doing❤🙏❤🇺🇸

  21. Donna Cribb

    August 25, 2023 at 9:16 pm

    Not fair to elon musk at all conspiracy ny doj

  22. praapje

    August 25, 2023 at 9:17 pm

    It´s a security clearance issue, plain and simple. Dual citizenship is a big no no and one has to have a clear background. Many if not all refugees do not have that.

  23. Nope Nope

    August 25, 2023 at 11:14 pm

    Hail King Elon

  24. Kaue Tadaieski

    August 25, 2023 at 11:16 pm

    Americans first

  25. Robert Baker

    August 25, 2023 at 11:34 pm

    Are you freaking serious?

  26. PoPs

    August 25, 2023 at 11:37 pm

    Maybe they to dumb to work there.. ever think they not qualified

  27. Huy Vu

    August 25, 2023 at 11:52 pm

    DOJ is dumb or what? Where is DOD btw?

    • Joseph Rosario

      August 27, 2023 at 4:52 pm

      its a regime, it doesn’t care about rules

  28. Eaton Brayns

    August 25, 2023 at 11:54 pm

    Yeh, Space X really needs questionably qualified non English as a major language speaking individuals to work on billion dollar projects involving human lives. There’s old saying: makes as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.

  29. J. G.

    August 26, 2023 at 1:00 am

    I 💯 support Elon Musk.
    AMERICANS first 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
    It takes a very low IQ to be a Democrat/liberal 🖕. Deport the 33,000,000 CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS in the United States.
    Build the wall and use the U.S. Military to remove the pedofiles and criminals. Illegal aliens kill, rape and assault thousands of American citizens every year.

  30. Darren Alexander

    August 26, 2023 at 1:17 am

    The DOJ must be getting funds from the CCP to plant operatives and steal advanced space technology. This game they are playing will surely backfire on them and anyone associated with these charades will most likely find themselves being sued or jailed.

  31. JeDx

    August 26, 2023 at 1:23 am

    Here come the Wokies again.

    • c. s.

      August 26, 2023 at 5:48 pm

      You mean communist fascist dictators

  32. 2ndAmendmentMF

    August 26, 2023 at 5:59 am

    Clowns 😂they really want china to send spys and copy spaceX technology

  33. Cody Benton

    August 26, 2023 at 9:15 am

    BEAKING NEWS: “Blades of grass were stepped on during the routine lawn care maintenance this morning.”

  34. Daniel McArthur

    August 26, 2023 at 1:08 pm

    How can they sue for not hiring refugees. That makes no sense especially when considering they type of company it is.

  35. Mike

    August 26, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    So hire them and be in violation if DOD and national security. Dont hire l them and be sued by DOJ? A witch hunt by the bolsheviks running the DOJ it sounds like. They go after Catholics, parents and now Musk. Time to defend.

  36. Shemyaza

    August 26, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    DOJ/IRS/FBI/NSA/DHS/ATF. Combine them all into a single organization and call them what they are, the secret police.

  37. Dwn2Race

    August 26, 2023 at 3:19 pm

    Biden’s American Last Policy!

  38. L33t Hax0r

    August 26, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    So has NASA, you are not legally allowed to hire people who are not US citizens into businesses that deal with confidential sensitive technology the leak of which could bring harm physical or financial to the United States. It’s kind of obvious. Someone needs to investigate the DOJ for treason in response to this because this is a radical action that actively endangers the interests of the USA on behalf of foreign nations

  39. Susan Elizabeth

    August 26, 2023 at 3:27 pm

    So the big immigrant won’t hire little immigrants. No moral compass. 🥂

  40. Targg The Wise

    August 26, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    Fascist leftists are in the open now.

  41. SHOCKNUTZ

    August 26, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    i won’t hire any refugees or asylum fakers either. sue me doj.

  42. TC Just TC

    August 26, 2023 at 7:28 pm

    Not sure why a law suit was filed. This could have been a quiet phone call.
    SpaceX does most of its business with the government so it may have to play nice.

  43. Sataka page

    August 26, 2023 at 8:33 pm

    Thease d o j. Stop fuckingaround fefuges dont ready . Whatthefuck happining to amercia justice sistem this stupid garland and cris ray andalltheother blasted ideiots everyday whenisnot wise a dawn fool .u.s. A. Dictator . Totaleation rule communist justice shitsink.

  44. Jennifer Ning

    August 26, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    – Biden’s administrations are communists!

  45. Jennifer Ning

    August 26, 2023 at 11:36 pm

    DOJ are Biden’s gangster!

  46. Don Brearton II

    August 27, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    The corrupt DOJ and scum media attack another conservative in their attempts to destroy America from within. Impeach Garland now all you feckless RINODem sleezy douche drinkers

  47. Mary Thompson

    August 27, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    It wouldn’t matter if Elon had done that. The U.S. civil rights legislation only applies to citizens and does not prevent discrimination against non-citizens. It protects citizens who had other national origin, but only after receiving citizenship. There is no protection for immigration status. The discrimination laws don’t protect everyone from any kind of discrimination. There are many kinds of discrimination that are legally allowed, even some very shallow reasons to discriminate against someone.

  48. inzer0

    August 27, 2023 at 3:26 pm

    immigration status is Not a protected classification in the civil rights act that governs this.. he is allowed to discriminate according to immigration status as he pleases.

    • Scott Tastet

      August 27, 2023 at 3:57 pm

      The DOJ isn’t accusing SpaceX of violating the Civil Rights Act. They’re using 8 U.S.C. § 1324b.-which wouldn’t allow SpaceX to do what they allegedly did.

  49. pm Stff

    August 27, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    That’s the Biden administration for you. This law applies to “ refugees”. The definition of refugee according to our government states “Being persecuted, fear of predication due to religious beliefs or social organization”. That leaves out most all refugees entering or applying for jobs in the US!

  50. Tang A-lang

    August 27, 2023 at 7:48 pm

    The nonsense the DOJ has been chasing the last few years has really made me lose respect for it as a department to uphold real justice and Laws. If they actually understood Elon Musk, they’d know he’d do anything to hire the absolute best talent for his businesses. This Lawsuit is nothing more than a way to discredit his name and drag it through the mud. The DOJ has turned into a political tool for destroying the Government’s enemies. Pathetic!

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