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As usual, a delusional MAGA keyboard warrior — furious at the wrong people — is pounding out nonsense on Threads.

Here are a few brain droppings he blessed us with:

“We just have to remove the illegals and we’ll have free healthcare.”
“They can go to their own countries and piss on everything like they do here.”
“They steal, rape, murder, and gangbang on my taxes.”

You know the type.

Proudly unemployed, six beers deep by noon, and blaming the dishwasher for why insulin costs $800.

Time to shred this bullshit—backed by actual numbers, not rage emojis.

Who Are the Migrants, Really?

First, let’s demolish the “they’re invading us!” nonsense.

  • As of January 2025, there are 53.3 million foreign-born residents in the U.S., about 15.8% of the total population [1].
  • Only about 11 to 13.7 million are undocumented — barely 3–4% of everyone living here [2].
  • And guess what? At least 42% of the undocumented population came legally and overstayed a visa [3].
    Not border-hopping. Not tunnel-digging. Legally. Through airports. You know, like your uncle on a Spirit Airlines bender to Cancun.

Meanwhile, the “immigrant share” of the population today is still lower than it was in 1890 [4].

Yeah. When your great-grandpa showed up drunk off the boat and immediately started a bar fight.

So unless you’re mad at Ellis Island too, maybe sit this one out.

Figure 1: Immigrants make up about 14–15.8% of the U.S. population — depending on the survey. Still close to historic highs. Data: U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023, CPS 2025).

They Do the Jobs MAGA Won’t Touch

Another MAGA myth down the drain:

Migrants aren’t “stealing jobs” — they’re doing the ones you won’t even apply for.

  • Service jobs: 21.8% of foreign-born workers vs. 15% of native-born [5].
  • Construction and maintenance: 13.8% foreign-born vs. 7.8% native-born [5].
  • Production, transportation, material moving: 15.2% foreign-born vs. 11.8% native-born [5].

Meanwhile, immigrants are less likely to be hanging out in cushy office gigs (13% vs 20.1%).

Also? They make less money than native-born workers — about 87 cents on the dollar [6].

Translation:

You’re not standing in a strawberry field at 5 AM because you’re too busy tweeting “build the wall” from your heated pickup truck.

Figure 2: Immigrants are overrepresented in essential, physically demanding jobs. Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023.

Crime: Manufactured Fear

Next myth on the chopping block:

Migrants are violent criminals flooding your streets.

Reality check:

  • Native-born Americans: 1,221 incarcerations per 100,000 people.
  • Undocumented immigrants: 613 per 100,000.
  • Legal immigrants: 319 per 100,000 [7].

Immigrants — even undocumented ones — are half as likely to be locked up as native-born citizens.

Legal immigrants? Four times less likely.

Meanwhile, as immigration doubled between 1980 and 2022, total U.S. crime dropped by 60% [8].

But sure, keep clenching your purse when a landscaper walks by. Not like your drunk neighbor with an AR-15 is the real problem.

Figure 3: Incarceration Rates per 100,000 Population. Data: Cato Institute analysis of 2023 American Community Survey data.

The Tax Scam: They Pay, You Whine

Here’s the part MAGA rage-farmers don’t want you to know:

Undocumented immigrants pay $96.7 billion in taxes every year [9].

That’s an average of nearly $9,000 per person — even though half don’t even have health insurance.

How it breaks down:

Tax Type Amount Paid (Billions)
Federal Taxes $59.4
  ↳ Social Security $25.7
  ↳ Medicare $6.4
  ↳ Unemployment Ins. $1.8
State & Local Taxes $37.3
  ↳ Sales & Excise $15.1
  ↳ Property Taxes $10.4
  ↳ State Income Taxes $7.0

Table 1: Undocumented Immigrant Tax Contributions, 2022 (Source: ITEP, Yale Budget Lab)

And guess what?

They pay into Social Security—over $25.7 billion a year—but can’t collect benefits [10].

That money subsidizes your retirement, Chad.

And if you deport 1 million of them? Poof. $8.9 billion in lost annual tax revenue [11].

But sure, keep thinking they’re “freeloaders” while you cash a Social Security check they helped fund.

Bonus Reality Check:

Their U.S.-born children (a.k.a. “anchor babies” in MAGA-speak) turn out to be even bigger net fiscal contributors than native-born Americans [12].

Meaning: The kids you want to deport are actually funding the country better than your favorite senator.

Healthcare: Deporting Won’t Save You, Genius

Here’s another sad trombone moment for MAGA healthcare “experts”:

  • 50% of undocumented immigrants are uninsured [13].
  • Immigrants — documented and undocumented — spend significantly less on healthcare than native-born Americans.

How much less?

  • Average healthcare spending per immigrant: $4,875/year.
  • Average for native-born citizens: $7,277/year [14].

Translation:

They’re not clogging the system. They’re subsidizing it by staying healthy and avoiding the ER—despite getting zero help from the insurance-industrial complex.

Figure 4: Average Annual Healthcare Expenditures. Data: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2023.

Deporting immigrants won’t magically fund healthcare.

It’ll just:

  • Shrink GDP by up to 6.8%.
  • Rip $100 billion+ a year out of Social Security and Medicare.
  • Explode hospital operating losses (because fewer people will be paying into the system at all).

You’ll still be broke, uninsured, and bleeding out in the ER waiting room — but at least José won’t be there holding a mop.

The True Cost of Deportations: Spoiler, It’s Trillions

If you think deporting immigrants will “save” the country, buckle up:

  • Direct cost to deport 11 million immigrants: $1 trillion over the next decade [16].
  • Lost tax revenue: $8.9 billion per year — minimum [11].
  • GDP shrinkage: up to 6.8% annually [16].

And the human wreckage?

  • Thousands of U.S. citizen children (yeah, “anchor babies”) ripped from families.
  • Documented spikes in child PTSD, depression, chronic illness after parental deportations [17].

Congratulations, patriot — you wrecked the economy, traumatized a generation, and still didn’t get free healthcare.

Figure 5: What $1 Trillion Could Actually Fund Instead of Mass Deportation.

In other words:

For what it costs to kick out the dishwasher and the roofer, we could literally:

  • Fund healthcare for every uninsured American for a decade,
  • Provide free insulin for everyone who needs it,
  • Expand Medicaid across all 50 states,
  • And still have enough left over for a Space Force moon base and a golden toilet in every senator’s office.

But yeah, let’s waste it trying to deport José for the crime of mopping a hospital floor better than you.

Historical Reality Check: U.S. Meddling Made the Crisis

Funny how the loudest voices screaming about “invaders” never mention why people are fleeing in the first place.

Turns out when you:

  • Prop up military dictators,
  • Stage coups against elected leaders,
  • Flood countries with guns and drug money,
  • Rig trade deals that crush local economies,

You get desperate people showing up at your door.

The U.S. didn’t just “inherit” this migration crisis.

We helped build it — brick by bloody brick.

Want the receipts?
Check out “Reagan to Biden: Four Decades of Immigration Chaos” for the full, brutal history.

Spoiler:
It’s a hell of a lot uglier than anything you’ll hear on Fox News.

Punch Up, Not Down

The dishwasher isn’t why you can’t afford insulin.

The roofer isn’t why your kid’s college costs more than your first house.

The farmworker isn’t why your town lost its hospital.

You’re broke because billionaires bought your government.

And while you’re busy blaming a Honduran line cook, they’re laughing their way to the Cayman Islands — on money you worked for.

So stop swinging at the guy mopping hospital floors at 2 a.m. Start swinging at the guy lobbying Congress to cut his taxes to zero.

Final truth bomb:

Blaming immigrants for your problems is like blaming the waiter because the CEO spit in your food.

Grow up. Punch up. Or get used to being robbed blind.

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