Is fraud the existential reason for illegal immigration?
And I always thought it was for purely electoral reasons...
Lewis Dovland | January 26, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! (Insert the sound of my palm slapping my forehead.)
For years, I’ve struggled to understand the radical left’s obsession with open borders. While the political benefits seemed obvious, the sheer ferocity of the leftists’ drive never quite added up. Then I saw the headlines from Minnesota about the staggering exposure of billions in daycare and healthcare fraud.
That was my “sit up in bed” moment that ended the cognitive dissonance. It all clicked.
We all know the standard arguments for why the Democrat establishment encourages illegal immigration:
1. Census & Apportionment: Under the 14th Amendment, everyone counts for House seat allocation. More illegals mean more congressional seats and federal dollars for blue states, even if the new residents in the state never cast a ballot.
2. Voting Integrity: In states without voter ID laws, the potential for multiple voting and ballot harvesting is a constant shadow over our elections.
3. The Long Game: The hope for future amnesty creates a permanent pipeline of new, beholden voters.
4. Societal Upheaval: Using the Cloward-Piven strategy to overwhelm the system with a permanent underclass that cannot assimilate, theoretically forcing a collapse that clears the way for Socialism.
But a nagging question remained: Why spend billions of taxpayer dollars to house and clothe these arrivals? If the goal is a progressive agenda, why “waste” those precious tax dollars on hotel rooms and food?
I woke up with a start: The entire crisis is a massive fraud scheme posing as humanitarian mercy.
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It’s not just about votes; it’s about a global laundering operation involving government officials (perhaps both elected and non-elected), private sector “non-profits,” and shadowy international connections. The political benefits—the seats and the votes—are certainly “nice-to-haves,” but they are the magician’s right hand. They are the misdirection used to mask fraud on an unthinkable scale.
Minnesota is currently a perfect storm. We are seeing the first wave of convictions—public officials and private citizens caught skimming funds for luxury lifestyles. But these are “chump change” levels compared to what is coming. If current reports are accurate, money in the billions is coming full circle back to the power structure itself.
Think about the logistics:
- Why lodge arrivals in expensive downtown hotels in NYC rather than low-cost rural areas?
- Why set up massive daycare facilities for parents who aren’t legally allowed to work?
- Why allocate funds on a “request basis” rather than a strict budget, with almost zero accountability or audits?
To pull this off requires massive collusion. You need the authority to distribute the funds, the front of “approved” non-profits to receive the cash, and the laundromat to wash the money. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards themselves?)
If Minnesota—with roughly 130,000 undocumented residents—is uncovering billions in fraud, what does that mean for the rest of the country? New York State has 800,000 illegals, and California has over 2.2 million, fifteen times the number of Minnesota.
Will we eventually discover 15 times the fraud? Consider that California has spent $14 billion on high-speed rail and incurred a total of $128 billion in costs, without laying a single mile of functional track. Where did that money really go?
It is my opinion that the question of illegal immigration and the Democrats’ ability to focus the debate on misplaced compassion for people, on ICE-negative issues and protests, while leaving a whiff of voting irregularities floating in the breeze, is a distraction from the big picture of multi-billion-dollar-level fraud. Just as a magician gets you to watch their right hand, while the left hand (pun intended) picks your pocket.
If this conclusion is true, it reveals a depth of corruption far beyond simple political ideology. They are in it not just for power, but for pure pecuniary fraud and theft, which makes selfishness their core belief and shows them as insincere poseurs et sauveurs humanitaires. It makes them evil. It has nothing to do with helping the downtrodden or oppressed. For them, it never has been. It is about personal enrichment and political funding at the expense of all citizens.