This week, Trump has said Musk would have to "close up shop and head back home to South Africa" if he halted government subsidies to his companies, and then later added that his administration would "have to take a look" at deporting Musk.

In recent months, a politically charged and deeply polarizing story has emerged on the international stage: the resettlement of a group of white South African farmers in the United States under a Trump-era refugee program.