Immigration, specifically illegal immigration creates horrific consequences on just about every facet of American life!

 

Dallas Fed finds that illegals are behind 30 percent of home price spikes

So much for Democrats touting 'affordability.' One out of every three dollars showing up in higher home prices is because of illegals flooding the market.

Monica Showalter | July 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Economics 101: Increase supply and prices go down. Raise demand, and prices go up.

That's what we are seeing in spades in the housing market in the wake of Joe Biden releasing as many as 14 million illegals into the interior of the country.

Housing prices in the U.S. went up. More people competing for the same supply of housing will do that. And illegals, who qualify for public subsidy programs allowing them to buy over other Americans, were ravenously buying. They also fill public housing, leaving Americans to go without, and populate growing 'informal' shantytowns, though President Trump is trying to put a stop to it.

That's called a classic demand shock, which has the same effect as inflation, but isn't the same as inflation, given that if the problem can be removed, the price hikes go away, not gradually but suddenly. It's a very good additional argument for mass deportation.

According to the  Washington Post, which has a nit-picky piece attempting to deflect the actual rising-price problem:

Drafted by economists Daniel Wilson of the San Francisco Fed and Xiaoqing Zhou of the Dallas Fed, the working paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the local economic effects of what the authors call an unprecedented boom in unauthorized immigration, which added 7 million people to the U.S. population between early 2021 and early 2024.

The authors used restricted court records showing where immigrants settled, along with records of migrants granted temporary permission to enter the country. The study found that an inflow of unauthorized workers equal to 1 percent of the local workforce raised area home prices about 2.2 percent and rents about 1.4 percent, with no detectable pickup in home building to absorb the demand.

These estimates imply that, in the average metropolitan area, unauthorized immigration raised house prices by 6.6 percent from early 2021 to early 2024. The actual home price growth was 22.4 percent in those markets over the period. This means unauthorized immigration explains roughly 30 percent of home-price growth — a meaningful contribution, but not a 30 percent increase in home prices as stated by Trump.

Actually, contrary to what the Post claims about President Trump having no facts, there have been previous studies from the Dallas Fed, no less, indicating that this phenomenon was happening.

And so now here come the Democrats, tra-la-la, telling us they are suddenly concerned about 'affordability' as their way of making political hay. They made the problem, now they position themselves as saviors.

It certainly would explain their mad dash in many blue cities to throw up housing -- big socialist-style apartment blocks the way Hugo Chavez once did, with neither parking nor amenities. They seem to be all in for housing illegals no matter what it does to the quality of life for the Americans. One can only guess about their seismic worthiness. have got illegals to house, and rather than focus on what they do to home affordability here (and I would bet, falling home values in their home countries) they seek to house them any which way they can, betting on President Trump failing in his bid to deport all of them. We'll see about that one.

In the meantime, this study should shut up a few Democrats who bray for open borders, yet drive housing costs skyward with every illegal they bring in.

 

This is a well written long very important news article but worth your time to study and learn about one of our most important national problems.

 

Strained by illegals' 'free' health care, Texas hospital may have turned to 'birth tourism' to make up for the losses

A 2016 S&P report said the south Texas hospital was suffering from significant uncompensated care.

Monica Showalter | July 9, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Seems everyone is piling on against a Texas hospital located in the Rio Grande Valley for its billboard advertising in Mexico for 'birth tourism.' 

President Trump has even asked the Supreme Court for a rehearing after its bad decision affirming this kind of birthright citizenship following news of the hospital's advertising campaign.

According to NewsNation:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered an investigation into a hospital near the Mexican border over concerns it was selling a path to American citizenship through childbirth packages.

The hospital advertised the packages across the border in Mexico but insists it did nothing illegal.

The billboard made it look almost as simple as booking a hotel room: Come to South Texas, have your baby and pay one set price.

A natural delivery started at $3,950, and a C-section started at $5,525.

The ad included a number for Mission Regional Medical Center and sent families to a website called “Have My Baby in Texas.”

Mission Regional Medical Center in the Rio Grande Valley confirmed the campaign was its own and reportedly began in 2021.

Mission Regional Medical Center offered full 'birth packages' to potential customers, despite Mexico itself having excellent and available health care at reasonable prices, not mentioning that their deal offered a little extra with guaranteed U.S. citizenship for those born in Texas, at a price that was reportedly cheaper than what other hospitals were charging in the U.S (as well as Mexico.) Many people online claimed that the pricing was less than what U.S. pregnant women are charged, perhaps to win more customers from the Mexican market, which, again, has good local health care at far more affordable prices, and thus, is a competitor, too.

Obviously, something is way wrong with hospitals trawling for business from the Mexican market, not offering a better product, but for the dangled, wink, wink, benefit of American citizenship, which shouldn't be theirs to give.

The Wayback Machine indicates it wasn't just Mission Regional enticing customers from abroad, by the way, but two other Texas hospitals, Knapp Medical Center, in Weslaco, and Harlingen Medical Center in Harlingen. The last screenshot, taken July 4 this year before it was shut down, had only Mission Regional and Knapp, both now owned by Prime Healthcare

Some screenshots:

 

 

From 2023:

 

From July 4, 2026:

 

To be honest, this isn't the worst birth tourism scheme I have ever heard of.

The creepy baby farm of Arcadia, California, where some Chinese billionaire just sent his sperm for surrogates in the states to have his babies, and then hundreds of these babies turning up in some mansion for who knows what purpose; or the Red Chinese army dispatching women to the Marianas to have their babies and then bring them back to Beijing for indoctrination on how to destroy America, strikes me as far worse abuses.

This is likely a convenience-citizenship for relatively wealthy Mexicans to return to Mexico, yet have the option of living here if they like, or having ease of crossing the border, or possibly obtaining benefits, though it seems less likely with this birth-tourism crowd as they are more affluent. Yes, it shouldn't be going on, but it's not the most grotesque manifestation of birth tourism and citizenship abuse.

What's disturbing is the potential story of the medical establishment as a border hospital, having to take in thousands of illegals with no payments.

I looked into one of these hospitals, Mission Regional, and found a sorry-looking 2016 credit report from Standard & Poor's which indicated that the hospital was getting its ratings cut, which affects its ability to borrow money, based on having to treat thousands of illegal border crossers for free:

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) May 20, 2016--S&P Global Rating lowered its

long-term rating on Hidalgo County Health Services Corp., Texas' $26.7 million

combined series 2005, 2007, and 2008 bonds, issued for Mission Regional

Medical Center (Mission) five notches to 'B-' from 'BB+' and removed the

ratings from CreditWatch. The outlook is negative.

 

"Mission was placed on CreditWatch with negative implications after fiscal

2015's substantial $12.5 million operating loss, and our expectation that the

medical center would breach its minimum debt service coverage covenant,

resulting in an event of default under the bond documents," said S&P Global

Ratings analyst Kevin Holloran.

 

Mission's reliance on supplemental sources of funding, including Medicaid

disproportionate share (DSH) and uncompensated care (UC) programs, were

largely responsible for improved (better than breakeven) financial performance

in fiscal 2013 and fiscal 2014, but without which, resulted in substantial

losses in fiscal 2015.

Uncompensated care? Yes, an open border means lots and lots of uncompensated care. 

While it may not be good for a hospital to seek birth-tourism from abroad as its new profit-center, it's seems pretty understandable that a hospital in illegals-flooded south Texas might do that out of desperation.

With illegals sending word back home at how good the health care is in the states, and communication channels already established through Mexican society, it might make sense to a marketing team to try to scarf up some of the wealthier parts of the Mexican market to make up the losses, the competitive advantage being U.S. citizenship on offer.

This, obviously, is just an impression from the S&P report and news reports about hospitals under severe financial strain from illegals seeking free treatment and hospitals being forced to give it, often without compensation.

But it would make sense if this is what it seems to be.

The bad thing is, they can offer birth-package discounts to Mexican customers, in order to draw that market in, but they would have to pass the costs of those discounts onto their domestic paying customers, even if the discounts were not nearly as deep as having to offer care for free to full-blown indigent illegals. 

So from two ends, Americans pay. I am not sure the hospital did anything wrong, either, given the birth tourism incentive embedded within the Supreme Court ruling. They may have just been taking their best option to survive. All the same, it disturbs Americans, and for many, it drives the point home about U.S. citizenship now being handed out like a consumer durable.

One can only hope that the Supreme Court will take up President Trump's requested rehearing. If this is what it takes to knock some sense into the more weak-kneed members of the Court, it's a good thing.

 

Providing higher education benefits to illegal alien students that are not provided for citizen students is abhorrent. The 5th CCA ruled properly to end this special benefit for illegal aliens.

 

Federal appeals court upholds ban on states providing in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens

Portions of the Texas Education Code previously allowed illegal migrants to receive the discounted tuition price as long as they reside in the state.

By Misty Severi justthenews.com 7-10-26

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling Thursday that states are prohibited under federal law from offering in-state tuition to illegal migrants at public universities, a major win for states like Texas trying to fight the scourge of illegal migration.

The ruling comes after the Justice Department sued multiple states over the issue, including California, Kansas, New Jersey and Texas. Portions of the Texas Education Code previously allowed illegal migrants to receive the discounted tuition price as long as they reside in the state. 

The order comes after Texas and the Justice Department agreed to have a federal judge block the program. A judge did sign off on a permanent injunction on lower tuition rates for undocumented students in June 2025.

The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 ruling that they could not intervene because federal law blocks the Dream Act and that a lower court was correct in ruling that two advocacy groups, a community college, and a student could not intervene and undo the consent judgment and dismissed the remaining claims for want of appellate jurisdiction.

"The district court correctly denied intervention after concluding that they could not plausibly defend the preemption claim," the appeals court wrote. 

Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the ruling in a social media post, describing it as a "major victory" for the state and the "rule of law."  

"Texas and the Trump DOJ just secured another major victory for the rule of law," Abbott said on X. "The Fifth Circuit upheld the END of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants in Texas."

 

Our Nation's voting laws and regulations must be regulated. The U. S. Senate must pass The Save Act now!

 

Australian alien arrested after investigation finds she illegally voted in two federal elections

Denise Nataly Migliore is accused of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to cast ballots in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

By Katherine Pugh justthenews.com 7-8-26

An Australian alien has been arrested after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation revealed that she illegally voted in two United States elections.

The United States Homeland Security Department announced Denise Nataly Migliore’s arrest in a press release on Tuesday. Migliore — who is a lawful permanent resident from Australia — is charged with intentionally making false U.S. citizenship claims in order to register to vote in a federal election, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

 Denise Nataly Migliore (Department of Homeland Security)

Migliore allegedly voted in the 2022 and 2024 elections. On June 11, she was indicted on charges of illegally voting in an election and making false statements in order to register to vote in the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Then, on July 1, Homeland Security Investigations arrested Migliore at the New Orleans’ federal courthouse.

“Our message to aliens who vote in American elections is clear: we will find you, arrest you, and you will face the consequences, including criminal charges and deportation,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “Only Americans should be electing American leaders.”

HSI and the FBI investigated the case.