How illegals plunder American billions, in broad daylight
And how Democrats enabled every dollar plundered.
Jim Davis | August 15, 2026 www.americanthinker.com
Around 30 million illegals (plus natural-born citizen children) milk the entire American economy, and every handout agency in Washington, for hundreds of billions annually. Much of it is remitted to their home countries, from Mexico to China to Somalia.
Large parts of those remittances end up in the hands of:
· Terrorist groups, and NGOs that supply them with cash; and
· Cartels trafficking in illegals, drugs, prostitutes, and even children.
I offer two personal anecdotes, illustrating how illegals drain billions in American wealth, in broad daylight. They’re extracting wealth by whatever means are available ― spending on comfortable lifestyles here in America, remittances to whomever they owe, and whatever anti-American foreign causes they favor.
First, let’s take a look at “Miguel.”
He was an illegal who owned a house near mine, in my leafy suburb northwest of Chicago. Miguel came over at 13, gained “deferred” status through St. Barack’s DREAMER program, and got a job with a Latino contractor for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT).
Minority-owned contractors get favorable treatment from IDOT.
Miguel was never laid off: road construction nine months a year, and driving a snowplow in the winter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJbkWM4Kp4
(Illinois, like most blue states, has given illegals driver’s licenses for years. We even have illegals who are driving instructors, because bilingual instructors are necessary for this horde of people who speak nothing but Spanish.)
One day I drove past Miguel at a construction site. He was holding the “Stop/Slow” sign. There was nobody behind me, so I stopped to ask him how much he was paid for such challenging work:
“Fifty-three an hour. Thank you union. Thank you, Pritzker.”
Not long after that, Miguel was driving a brand-new Ford F-350 4WD with custom rims.
A few years later, it was 2025 and ICE fanned out in force. Miguel and almost his entire crew of illegals, including the contractor himself, were scooped up in low-profile raids around our suburban county. Those lucrative jobs became available for Americans again.
(So stop worrying about 23,000 jobs “lost” in July. Thousands more jobs were lost by deported illegals, and gained by American citizens.)
But I’m sure Miguel’s lawyer sold the house and truck for him; and that Miguel and his family are thriving on the proceeds. In Mexico’s depressed economy, they’re probably the richest family in their village.
Next, let’s look at "Maria."
Upon retirement, my parents relocated to Albuquerque. Mom became director of a local church-based outreach agency for the Latino community.
Albuquerque has been a blue city for decades. So it’s been a sanctuary city for decades – unlike the rest of New Mexico, which is still mostly red.
I met Maria, one of Mom’s favorite clients, several times during my annual Christmas visits to Mom and Dad.
Maria was an “undocumented immigrant.”
She had five children, all natural-born U.S. citizens, who’d been living in Section 8 housing their entire lives.
They didn’t learn a word of English until they went to public school, with English as a Second Language (ESL). Food stamps and free school lunches provided all their meals.
Other state programs, or church charities, paid for their utilities, health care, public transportation, and even everyday clothing.
Curiously, money appeared out of nowhere for expensive gifts.
Designer shoes, Sunday suits, cars for their 16th birthdays, and Quinceañera celebrations for the girls’ 15th birthdays magically appeared. Maria’s Navidad gift-giving was extravagant, for such an impoverished family.
When the last of her children graduated, with all voting Democrat to keep her from being deported, Maria finally married their father. They were retiring to Mexico.
The elaborate wedding, and expensive reception with their entire church in attendance, was when Mom finally met Luis. He’d been the mysterious source of gifts, and party funds for special occasions, all those years.
Luis was also an illegal, with his own landscaping business.
Like Miguel, he owned his own home, worth five times the value of Miguel’s. And instead of one brand-new pickup truck, Luis had an entire fleet of vehicles.
At their wedding, we learned that not only had Luis and Maria been secretly married in Mexico 25 years earlier, but this “poor girlfriend, rich boyfriend” scam was customary among illegals.
Most likely, every welfare or charity dollar Maria ever collected was fraudulent.
Luis sold the house, the landscaping business and the vehicle fleet, and retired with Maria to their tiny village ― several times more wealthy than Miguel’s family.
Because Luis never had to pay for everyday support for his family. We did it for him.
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POC/LGBTQ team operated Joe Biden like a Muppet, using an Autopen.
They let in 10.5 million illegals in just four years: an average
of about 219,000 per month. Before that, St. Barack made a big show
as “Deporter in Chief.” But he was letting in millions as well.
Also, St. Barack changed the definition of “deportation” to pad his numbers. Before, it meant an order of deportation from immigration court, after lengthy litigation. St. Barack’s new definition included hordes turned away at the border, after being in America for about five minutes.
Furthermore, all these numbers only count those caught at the border.
They don’t count the ones who got away. So for all 12 of those years, with a brief respite during Trump’s first term, DHS was overwhelmed from the south, and undermined from Washington.
The result was that we got at least 30 million uneducated people who couldn’t speak English, and had no marketable jobs skills beyond the level of “landscaper,” or “burger flipper.” Miguel, Luis and Maria appear to be typical cases.
A few had degrees, but many of those seem to have learned Marxist revolutionary theory.
Due to this human tsunami, they were released into the U.S.
They had immigration court notices sometime in 2029, because immigration court dockets were also overwhelmed.
Since the POC/LGBTQ committee urges them to retain their native cultures, rather than assimilate, they only learn English at our expense. All the big-city affordable housing is handed down, from one illegal leaseholder to the next, like family heirlooms.
There was also little screening for medical histories, criminal backgrounds, or links to terrorist groups. This was, again, due to the sheer size of the tsunami.
So we also got about 100,000 pedophiles, murderers, MS-13 gangsters ... and potential terrorists.
About 80% of all illegals are unaccompanied males of military age. So the illegal population is about as disproportionately criminal as native-born, American minority males.
Thanks to St. Barack, we also got about 220,000 Somalis, who think plundering “rival clans” (such as America) is honorable. So we get $18 billion in Somali fraud, just in one state. Never mind the billions in welfare fraud, in California and every other blue state.
Let’s not pretend there isn’t election fraud going on in blue states and blue cities, too. New Jersey admitted that 6,600 of them registered to vote, and 400 of them voted that we know about. What are Democrats not admitting yet, because it hasn’t been investigated? And let's not forget Los Angeles's travesty of a mayoral election.
We also got outbreaks of typhus, tuberculosis, and measles.
All virtually eradicated in the U.S. decades ago. Now they’re all making a big comeback, because Third World countries still have those diseases.
Import the Third World. Become the Third World. Thank you, Democrats.
Jim Davis is an IT specialist and paralegal, with degrees in political science and statistical analysis: the underpinning of all science. His work has appeared in Daily Caller, Newsmax and American Thinker. You can find him as RealProfessor219 on Rumble.
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