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The impact of illegal immigration

Think of how many illegal aliens might be living in the United States, and then think of what that means for each individual citizen.

Perry V. Kalajian | April 30, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Let’s separate the facts from the fiction on the impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

Sources vary on the number of illegal aliens presently in the U.S.  While some estimate approximately 11 million to 15 million, I believe that the actual number is much higher.  Prior to Joe Biden’s presidency, mention had been made in some quarters of estimates ranging from 20 million to more than 32 million.

No one really knows how many illegal aliens are currently in the U.S., but if we discount the low estimates as being dispersed by unreliable left-leaning sources undercounting for purposes of supporting their political agenda, it can be argued that there might be 50 million or more.

To properly analyze the impact of these illegal aliens on the U.S., a determination as to the current population of the U.S. is required.  Sources vary on the actual current population of the U.S., but the general estimate is between 341 million and 350 million.  Unfortunately, these sources do not tell us how many illegal aliens are counted within their estimates, but for the purposes of this analysis and simplicity, we can take the position that the U.S. population is 350 million and that 50 million of that number — one in seven, or over 14 percent — are illegal aliens.

What is the impact of these illegal aliens on the U.S.?  That can best be evaluated by looking at some of the current issues facing the country.

At the top of the list appears to be affordability.  Despite the fact that most of the increase in costs for goods and services can be attributed to the Biden administration’s spending and policies resulting in inflation of approximately 21.5 percent over Biden’s presidency, the left has blamed President Donald Trump and Republicans for all escalations in expenses and successfully used the affordability argument in the New York City mayoral race and nationally.  In fact, inflation was at 3.0 percent when Trump came into office in January of 2025.  The lingering effects of the Biden administration’s actions resulted in an average inflation rate of about 2.7 percent during the first year of Trump’s second term in office.  As Trump’s policies began to affect the U.S. economy, inflation declined to 2.4 percent in January and February of 2026 (before an aberrational rise to 3.3 percent in March, driven by the Iran conflict).

Affordability for individuals can be broken down into its elements.  What if there were one less person in seven to rent or purchase a house or apartment?  Consider if over 14 percent of the people currently buying groceries and all other items did not exist.  The result would be that demand for the current supply of housing and other goods and services would decrease, while costs would generally decrease and availability.

Looking at the impact of illegal aliens on a more macro scale is most revealing.  What if there were one fewer person out of seven in emergency rooms and otherwise receiving medical services?  Suppose in excess of 14 percent of people getting welfare or government support of some kind were deported.  Imagine if one in seven students in schools were no longer present.  Contemplate if there were 14 percent fewer people to take jobs (or even fewer people than that).  What if there were one in seven fewer individuals to commit crimes and increase the related cost both financially and emotionally?  Ponder if there were more than 14 percent fewer vehicles on U.S. roads.  Clearly, the result would be a decrease in demand for the same amount of supply, leading to reduced government costs for medical services, welfare, schools, unemployment, crime prevention, congestion reduction, road maintenance, and pollution.  The decrease in vehicles on U.S. roads would result in the added benefit of reducing carbon emissions, which should be applauded by leftists, who claim that carbon emissions are a major contributor to their all-important issue of global warming.

Whether the actual number of illegal aliens in the U.S. is one in seven or somewhat higher or lower, the conclusion is the same: Illegal aliens are a cost to the U.S. and a detriment to the quality of life of U.S. citizens.

Estimates vary, but it is clear that the burden of illegal aliens on the U.S. taxpayer runs into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually and trillions of dollars over time.  With an increasing national debt, this is an expense that the U.S. cannot carry.

It has been argued: How can the U.S. afford to deport so many illegal aliens?  I would respond, how can the U.S. afford not to deport them?

 

Our once great Republic is so infested with fraud - it will take decades to clean it up! It is total insanity!

 

Sara Gonzales confronts owner of alleged H-1B visa & autism center scam — whistleblower tells all

Cooper Williamson April 28, 2026 theblaze.com

Gonzales exposes another alleged fraud scheme, this time near Allen, Texas.

Back in January, BlazeTV's Sara Gonzales released a bombshell report on an investigation into H-1B scams in Texas.

On Tuesday, Gonzales released another video of her investigation into an alleged H-1B farm posing as a day care and autism center — despite appearing to be non-operational when she visited.

'If you are not leave, I will call the police!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICI8DyXo7ZQ

And her investigation took some unexpected turns after she stumbled upon a whistleblower who was able to blow the lid off the whole operation and confronted the owner outside the buildings.

Gonzales started the video outside Allen Infant Care Center, which used to be called Golden Acorn Academy, according to her investigation. The day cares, Gonzales explained, are owned by a holdings company called Golden Qi Holdings LLC, which is also allegedly affiliated with DFW ABA Center, reportedly an autism behavioral therapy center.

RELATED: 'H-1B workers ONLY': DOJ punishes company Sara Gonzales exposed for illegal hiring practices

She showed that the complex was almost entirely empty and, notably, apparently devoid of children. The playground appeared to require maintenance and to be overtaken with tall grass and weeds.

Gonzales alleged that, on top of having an associated day care and autism center, they have sponsored "37 H-1Bs" and "they have filled out 55 Labor Condition Applications," citing USCIS data.

"The thing that is so curious about this [case] when you go digging in the data and the LCAs is that you wouldn't think that a day care center would need, you know, 'market research analysts' or 'supply chain analysts,'" Gonzales remarked.

"And yet, this company actually told the United States government that they needed foreign workers to fill those jobs," she further alleged.

While this investigation may have looked like it would take a normal course at the outset, Gonzales ran into a whistleblower at the premises who claimed to be familiar with the operation and who explained "just how bad this one gets."

The whistleblower alleged that the H-1B visa workers do not work on-site and that the immigration enforcement officials "know all about his H-1B visas," claiming that the owner has been investigated three or four times in the last three years.

She also alleged that the owner sells visas and then underpays the holders of those visas when they get to the United States. She described the company as a "foothold" in an immigration scheme.

Gonzales also confronted a man who appeared to be the owner of the companies she was investigating.

The man spoke with her in broken English, attempting to get her to simply talk to his lawyers on the phone instead. However, Gonzales kept pushing him to explain his alleged "pay-to-play" visa operation.

After some questioning, the man retreated to what Gonzales described as a "metallic rose gold BMW" with butterfly doors.

"Hey, is your dad a member of the CCP?" Gonzales asked as he slammed the door of his car.

The man drove down the road, turned around, then yelled out the window of his BMW, "If you are not leave, I will call the police!"

"I'll call the police on you for scamming my system!" Gonzales shouted after him as he sped away.

After the investigation on-site, Gonzales said that she and her team still have a lot of questions and will be referring their findings to USCIS and the Department of Labor.

 

The Trump Administration has certainly kept the SCOTUS busy lately!

 

Chief Justice Roberts gets DACA do-over as Supreme Court ponders migrant deportation protections

 

President Donald Trump gestures to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after being sworn in as president during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP)

 

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, April 26, 2026

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rode to the rescue of illegal immigrant Dreamers six years ago by ruling that President Trump’s attempt to roll back the Obama-era DACA program broke the rules.

Mr. Trump will be back at the Supreme Court this week with another case asking the justices to bless his attempt to curtail Temporary Protected Status, another program that grants migrants protection from deportation.

President Biden used the Temporary Protected Status program to shield more than 1 million migrants from deportation. Mr. Trump’s team has been pushing to end the status for more than a dozen countries, making those migrants once again eligible for deportation.

The justices will hear cases Wednesday involving attempts to end the protected status for Haiti, which covers about 350,000 people, and Syria, which covers about 6,000.

Lower courts ruled that in both cases, the Homeland Security Department violated the law by ending protections without giving full consideration to the chaos in those countries.

Mr. Trump wants the justices to let him proceed. The administration argues that the courts shouldn’t second-guess the president on these sorts of decisions. It says they are deeply tied to the president’s foreign policy powers and that the law gives the administration wide discretion to decide which countries are covered by the program.

“Policy arguments cannot trump statutory text,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in his final brief before argument, filed last week.

The case is the latest in a string of Trump immigration moves to reach the high court during his two terms in office.

In 2018, the justices delivered a win to the president. Chief Justice Roberts penned the majority opinion, which upheld Mr. Trump’s travel ban on largely Muslim nations. Brushing aside complaints of racism, the chief justice said Congress gave the president wide-ranging powers to exclude categories of migrants at the border.

Two years later, though, the chief justice ruled against the president on his attempt to wind down Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

He ruled that Mr. Trump likely had the power to reel in the Obama-era deportation leniency for Dreamers but said the president cut too many corners in how he went about it. Writing for the 5-4 majority, the chief justice said the Dreamers had built up “reliance interests” that deserved more consideration.

Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law who has tracked the chief justice over the years, said he expects the case to go more like the travel ban litigation.

“TPS is a fairly narrow program that doesn’t affect very sympathetic plaintiffs like the DACA recipients who came here through no fault of their own,” he said.

He also said the program’s name literally includes the word “temporary,” which should put Mr. Trump on firmer footing.

“It will not be hard for Roberts to see that Biden and others abused TPS, and Trump is actually following the text,” Mr. Blackman said.

Ahilan Arulanantham, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who will argue before the justices on behalf of the Syrian migrants, said he sees the Temporary Protected Status case as closer to the DACA case than to the travel ban.

Temporary Protected Status, like DACA, concerns people already in the U.S., while the travel ban was about excluding new arrivals, an area where courts have traditionally given the government greater leeway in decision-making.

The law cited as the basis for Mr. Trump’s travel ban granted presidents significant deference, whereas the Temporary Protected Status statute is more constrained and vests authority in the homeland security secretary, not the president.

“Also, at a more human level there are a number of TPS holders who are very similarly situated to the undocumented youth in [the DACA case],” he said.

He pointed to the daughter of one of the plaintiffs, who came to the U.S. at age 3 and is now about to graduate from high school.

Rosemary Jenks, a lawyer who has tracked immigration cases for years, said the law on its face gives the administration wide-ranging powers, but the DACA case showed the high court can find reasons to upend the president if it wants to.

“The law Congress duly enacted is very clear that the president has the authority to rescind [TPS],” said Ms. Jenks of the Immigration Accountability Project. Still, she added, “There’s no question that if the court wants to find against Trump, they can do it with these vagaries of process.”

The president’s critics say Chief Justice Roberts and his colleagues have plenty of ammunition.

The administration has reviewed more than a dozen grants for protected status and has decided to end each of them.

Congress created Temporary Protected Status in 1990 to formalize the government’s ability to delay deportations to nations that suffer natural disasters, war, epidemics or political instability. The theory is that countries should be allowed to recover without having to accommodate returnees and that migrants shouldn’t be sent back to harsh conditions.

The Homeland Security Department designates countries for up to 18 months and can renew the designation. Any citizen from a designated country who is in the U.S. on a less-than-permanent basis can apply, though migrants without legal visas make up the vast majority of recipients.

Despite the word “temporary” in its name, some of the oldest grants date back to the turn of the century, when natural disasters struck Central America.

Syria was first designated in 2012 and has been renewed repeatedly since. Haiti was first designated after a devastating earthquake in 2010, covering about 50,000 enrolees. The Biden administration then expanded the designation, covering hundreds of thousands of people who arrived during the migrant surge.

The Trump administration argues that the Temporary Protected Status program has been used as another loophole for migrants to exploit immigration law.

To more than 1 million people, however, it means stability and a shot at the American dream.

“I’ve been living in the United States for the last 28 years. I have built a family of four U.S. citizen kids and my wife and I have done so many things not only contributing economically to the United States but also in general society,” said Jose Palma, a citizen of El Salvador and coordinator of the National TPS Alliance.

The Supreme Court briefly grappled with the program last year, issuing two rulings allowing Mr. Trump to proceed with stripping protected status from Venezuelans, a move affecting more than 600,000 migrants.

These illegal alien invaders continue to cause chaos in many cities across the country. It is total insanity!

 

ICE scoops up an actual Somali pirate who'd been let in through Joe Biden's open border

Who let that guy in?

Monica Showalter | April 26, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Joe Biden's open border brought all the world's riff-raff to our doors and it's a logical thing that it did: If you know you can't get into the U.S. the legal way, and you aren't big on laws anyway, and the U.S. was letting all comers in as 'asylum seekers,' the time to go was then. So in addition to all the terrorist watchlisters, home invasion burglary rings, Chinese spies and saboteurs, Mexican cartel human smugglers, pro-Hamas agitators, and garden variety thieves, killers and rapists, the Department of Homeland Security picked up yet another problem from Joe Biden's open borders: An actual Somali pirate.

Via Power Line blog, here's the Department of Homeland Security's tweet of its latest catch:

That would be these guys, portrayed by master actors in the movie, Captain Phillips, based on a harrowing real-life incident.

According to the Department of Homeland Security:

WASHINGTON – Today, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers arrested Said Jama Ahmed, an illegal alien from Somalia, who faces an outstanding arrest warrant for violations of falsely making, using, and forging a passport and for a positive fingerprint match to a 2012 national security threat with ties to Somali piracy.

“Weak Biden Administration border policies allowed this illegal alien to enter and remain in the country despite his multiple law enforcement encounters,’ said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. ‘We are thankful for our hardworking U.S. CBP officers and Canadian officials for their cooperation in arresting this individual. DHS will continue to work to arrest criminal illegal aliens to protect the American homeland from all threats.”

On the night of April 14, an off-duty Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer first reported Ahmed and observed him walking southbound while carrying a backpack several miles north of the U.S.-Canada border. Two hours later, a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Agent spotted Ahmed and confronted him and placed him into CBP custody.

USBP currently holds him in the District of North Dakota for illegal entry.

Ahmed has a long record of United States military and law enforcement encounters. On March 10, 2012, the U.S.S. Halsey responded to a distress call from an Indian-flagged ship reporting that pirates had hijacked it in the Gulf of Aden.

A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team conducted boarding operations and encountered Ahmed and nine other armed pirates who had taken the Indian ship hostage by force, where the Navy then logged Ahmed’s fingerprint.

Ahmed first entered the United States in September of 2022 near San Luis, Arizona. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained him in 2024 during a warrant search for fraud documents, where officials issued a full extradition warrant dated 4/24/2025.

So the pirate got let in, despite U.S. authorities having his fingerprints on file from a 2012 Somali piracy incident where the U.S.S. Halsey had to rescue an Indian-flagged ship under attack, and he somehow snuck into Canada where he was spotted trying to sneak back into the U.S. somewhere around North Dakota, where he is being held in the can.

Based on a search of the Halsey rescue, it looks like the Indian navy just loves that destroyer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSRDnwOh_c

No word on what he was up to, but it would not be unreasonable to think it was something unsavory.

That he was slinking around the Northern border, rather than the Southern one, pretty well tells us he likely had a network of confederates, and a good guess for where they were based is Minneapolis which is home to a very largee Somali fraudster community. Was he defrauding the U.S., too?

Why would someone with such a long history of crime and confrontation with U.S. military and law enforcement be so very eager to come to the U.S. to be around people who would likely arrest him? 

It's astonishing.

What it says is not only did he have a network -- he had to have had a base here in the states, Somalia is just too different from the U.S. for a Somalian to even know what to do here, he was pretty confident nothing would ever happen to him. The United States was where the money was, as the old bank robber saying goes. The U.S. was there for his harvesting and why do it on the high seas when it's so much easier to do it with Tim Walz's glad-to-be-fleeced government? 

Which raises the obvious question: How many more of them are here, too? This one was caught because he left a fingerprint on one of the boats the U.S. came to the rescue to. How many more of them didn't leave fingerprints, or did leave fingerprints, but who are location unknown?

If there is anyone out there with values utterly incompatible with the U.S.'s, it's got to be Somali pirates. That one got let in pretty well tells us how bad the rot was with Biden's open borders. It's not enough that terrorists, criminals and spies got let in, there had to be pirates, too, living it up and probably voting in our elections, all at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.

Image: U.S. Department of Homeland Security // government work

Related Topics: Somalia, Illegal Immigration, Crime, North Dakota