Building rockets doesn’t require citizenship in the US. Refugees and asylees are eligible for employment at SpaceX under US law, but SpaceX falsely claimed that

Building rockets doesn’t require citizenship in the US. Refugees and asylees are eligible for employment at SpaceX under US law, but SpaceX falsely claimed that they weren’t. That’s illegal. You can have your own take on what the law should say, but excluding a class of people that the law allows to work for you is illegal discrimination.