Biden did not fly 300,000 undocumented immigrants into the country, as Trump misleadingly said. The people who came to the United States, to whom Trump refers, applied for a government-approved parole program.

"The program is not 'treason,'" Aaron Reichlin-Melnick stressed in response to posts on X that echoed Trump and Musk's alarm. "It is completely legal. The Immigration and Nationality Act gives the Administration the ability to admit people for humanitarian reasons," he said.