Illegal immigration is loaded with numerous fraudulent activities!

 

DHS identifies 10,000+ foreign students working for 'highly suspect' employers

Vice President JD Vance celebrated the announcement, calling it "[a]nother great win for our fraud task force."

By Ben Whedon 5-12-26 justthenews.com

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced its identification of more than 10,000 foreign students who allegedly work for dubious employers as part of its crackdown on visa work programs.

"This is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the past year, we've dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT," a DHS spokesman said. "Many of these employers include NGOS engaged in suspicious activities. We've discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed."

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, is a work authorization for students on visas. The program, along with the H-1B visa, has drawn intense scrutiny from immigration hawks, who have long contended that it is ridden with fraud.

"We've found small residential addresses listed as work sites for hundreds of foreign students, yet no employees were present," the spokesman added. "We're also seeing financial red flags."

Vice President JD Vance celebrated the announcement, calling it "[a]nother great win for our fraud task force."

"We will not tolerate foreign nationals abusing our visa system at the expense of the American people," he added.

 

Illegal alien invaders leaving on their own accord has its merits - let's hope more make that decision.

 

80,000 illegal aliens gave up immigration cases and left US in 2026

Seven times as many people are abandoning their immigration cases and leaving when compared to the last 15 months of the Biden administration.

Libby Emmons Brooklyn NY May 11, 2026 thepostmillennial.com

From January to March, American immigration judges processed 80,000 voluntary departure orders, per a report from the Vera Institute for Justice. As the Trump administration has embarked on plans to deport illegal immigrant criminals, they have also encouraged those who are in the US illegally to leave of their own accord. 70% of those were in immigration detention when they came up with the idea to leave on their own rather than wait for their court date.

When illegal immigrants leave on their own, they are still permitted to return to the US as tourists or to seek legal immigration down the road. That is not the case for those who exit the borders with a deportation order. Seven times as many people are abandoning their immigration cases and leaving when compared to the last 15 months of the Biden administration. During that time, only 11,400 people took the option to depart of their own accord. The Department of Justice issued a document on how to apply for voluntary departure.

Department of Justice guidelines for voluntary departure

Illegal immigrants in deportation detention facilities can leave at any time they like so long as they return to their home countries and do not pursue a court case in the US. While many people who came to the US during the Biden years applied for asylum, the vast majority of them are not eligible for that residency option. Voluntary departures have been greatest in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, and California.

"The number of people receiving a decision of voluntary departure has risen dramatically since the change in presidential administration," writes non-profit Vera Institute of Justice in a report, "particularly among people who were detained. Judges appointed by the second Trump administration have granted voluntary departure at higher rates than judges with more experience—while still granting orders of removal at comparable rates." 

One change is that those illegal immigrants who are detained to wait for their immigration court date are no longer given a bond hearing, meaning that their stay in detention has no reprieve other than voluntarily leaving the country or waiting interminably for their case to make its way through the immigration court system. That order rescinding bond hearings was given in July 2025 and following that, the voluntary removals ramped up.

About 60,000 people are currently in detainment in deportation detention facilities month over month. As of April 4, that number was 60,311. Only those without a criminal record qualify for voluntary departure and those who seek it must request it prior to their court date, agree that they are not legally in the US, waive or withdraw applications to stay, show that they have a plan and intention to leave, and "demonstrate that you are a good person."

 

"While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns".

 

Third world migrant crisis in the US is actually worse than it is in Europe

While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns.

Olivia Murray | May 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Listen, I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve been hyperfocused on the migration problem consuming Europe, writing on it fairly frequently. 

When you see what Western gems like Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Edinburgh have become, it’s easy. The crime rates are surging, from vandalism to rape and murder, infamous and unforgettable images make it into our news feeds—like the African migrant cooking his breakfast on a Western war memorial or the freaky East African-looking guy grinning from his taxpayer-paid flat balcony after going on a stabbing spree—and Arab delinquents are caught destroying historic walls that have been standing for centuries.

And while we do have our own examples of the migration problem in the U.S., like Laken Riley’s murder and the Somali fraud scandal, they’re relatively rare, or framed in the media as being small scale occurrences—tempting us to think it’s worse in Europe than here. But I think we’re being extremely naive, living in “the white,” fat, dumb, and (relatively) happy.

I first realized that things are actually more dire here than they are in Europe when I went to the U.K. a couple of months back. In the small towns, things still felt and looked distinctly English, Irish, and Scottish (respectively). Small towns in the U.S., even in places like Alabama where I live? Athens, where my kids go to school, is full of Haitians, I’ve seen gaggles of Islamic women covered from head-to-toe in their burkas in Moulton where I go to buy local farm goods, and I refuse to go to Walmart anymore after being jostled down the aisles by diminutive Central Americans one too many times, with not an English-speaking customer to be found. (I was the only American in a sea of foreigners, literally, in my own home country.)

When I visited Blackpool? Only white English people. I didn’t see a single migrant.

When I visited Inverness, Dún Laoghaire, Wrea Green, Dingwall, and Fort Augustus? All Anglos, with a few Asians working the sushi restaurant at which we dined. Again, not a single African or Arab third-worlder.

The big cities? When I went to Dublin, I saw a whopping two Muslims, women with hijabs, participating in the St. Paddy’s Day celebrations, speaking English, and decently Westernized. Not ideal, but at least they know the language, having probably been born there. (I wrote on my trip to Ireland for the AT newsletter, so here’s a quick AT subscription plug for access to exclusive essays that won’t appear on the site.)

Okay, that’s all anecdotal you might say, and fair enough—but let’s look at some numbers.

14.1% of the EU’s population in 2024 reportedly consisted of foreign-born individuals. In Germany, where the numbers are notoriously bad, the overall migrant population is around 20%.

The U.S.? We have a population of roughly 342 million—and around 100 million are foreigners who need to be deported/repatriated:

That’s a whopping 30% of our population being non-Americans, whether they have “legal” status or not.

Consider that the 10-12 million number was what they said…back in the 1970s:

Also consider that since Hart-Celler, which eliminated the prioritization of immigrants from Western nations to instead permit all the net negative individuals from the darkest corners of the globe, some 60 million “immigrants” have flooded into the U.S.—then they reproduced like rabbits. Europe, just by virtue of being small and with limited room for growth, has less migrants. The U.S., with tons of space and a massive economy, is bearing the brunt.

While we’re all distracted with the European problem, our nation sinks and drowns.

Debt ruins an individual, a family, a State and also a Nation - Wake up America!

 

Nations are destroyed by debt, not enemies

Great nations are rarely destroyed by external enemies. They are more often destroyed by debt. 

Douglas Carswell | May 12, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Imagine your family spent more this year than you earned. Uncomfortable, but manageable. Now imagine your family had spent more than it earned every single year since 2001. By now you would be destitute.

That is what the federal government has been doing.

For the past 25 years -- ever since Bill Clinton left the White House -- Washington has spent more than it has taken in. Every single year. The national debt now stands at $39 trillion.

In 2001, the United States owed less than $6 trillion. Today we owe nearly $39 trillion. The federal debt has grown by $33 trillion in just 25 years.

Here is the worrying part. In the entire 212 years from George Washington's first inauguration through Bill Clinton's last day in office -- through the Civil War, the Great Depression, two World Wars, and the Cold War -- the United States accumulated $5.8 trillion in debt. In the 25 years since, we have added $33 trillion more. More than four-fifths of the total debt the country carries today has been borrowed in the past quarter-century.

Our brains are not wired to grasp numbers this large. So consider it another way.

A million seconds ago was about 11 days ago -- late April. A billion seconds ago was 32 years ago, in 1994, when the World Wide Web was just getting started. A trillion seconds ago was about 32,000 years ago. Woolly mammoths still roamed Europe. Farming had not yet been invented. No one, so far as we know, had yet reached North America.

That is what a trillion looks like. And the United States owes almost forty of them.

The pace is accelerating. Of that $39 trillion, $2.7 trillion was added in the past year alone. Ten trillion -- more than 27 percent of every dollar America has ever borrowed -- has been piled on in just the past five years. The federal government now adds roughly $8 billion in new debt every single day.

Great nations are rarely destroyed by external enemies. They are more often destroyed by debt. The historian Niall Ferguson has warned that when the cost of servicing old debts crowds out the essential investments that sustain national strength -- especially defense -- decline becomes almost inevitable.

History is littered with cautionary tales. Habsburg Spain. Bourbon France. The Ottoman Empire. Each was once the greatest power on earth. Each was overstretched by debt.

Ferguson identifies a critical threshold -- what some now call the Ferguson limit -- beyond which a great power cannot long survive: the moment a nation spends more on debt interest than on defense. At that point, fiscal arithmetic begins to dismantle geopolitical power. The United States is now flirting with that threshold.

A few months ago, I was at the Ole Miss game in Oxford when a B-2 stealth bomber flew over the stadium. The crowd went wild. It was one of the most thrilling sights I have ever seen -- a symbol of American strength, the kind of demonstration of raw power that not only keeps the United States secure but keeps adversaries across the globe in line. Each B-2 cost over $2 billion to build. Keeping one in the air costs about $150,000 an hour. There are only 21 of them.

The risk is that one day the United States -- like Habsburg Spain -- will simply not be able to afford the things that make us strong. And it isn't just defense. Medicaid. Social Security. Federal pensions. Every one of them depends on the United States being able to roll its debt at manageable rates.

Cutting spending alone will not be enough. We also need growth -- and an AI-driven productivity boom looks increasingly likely to deliver it. Spending restraint and growth, working together, could narrow the deficit over a decade. Eventually, the debt itself could begin to be paid down.

This -- not the midterms, not the next round of congressional redistricting -- is what really matters. It will decide whether our children's children live better lives than we do, or whether we follow Europe down the path of higher taxes, rising costs, and demographic decay.