Diversity Is Our Strength: Illegals and Lawsuits

Just the News reports that "Law firms exploiting illegal immigrants to file personal injury lawsuits, expert says." An excerpt:

    The scheme is simple. An illegal immigrant approaches a personal injury law firm to sue his workplace and property managers for an injury – real, inflated, or fake – for millions of dollars in return for assistance securing up-front loans to pay back the border coyotes that brought him here, Lauren Zelt, executive director of Protecting American Consumers Together, told Just the News.

    “So what we're seeing in a lot of major cities across the country, places like New York, Los Angeles, other places, is folks are coming across the border illegally, and then, in order to go ahead and pay back those that brought them here, a/k/a their coyotes, they're working with billboard [advertising] attorneys to stage accidents,” Zelt told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show on Tuesday.

Wide variety of suits, from slip-and-fall to automobile accident injuries

    “These accidents could be workplace accidents. They could be car accidents. There's a variety of different methods that they use, but once the accident is staged, they then work with the billboard attorneys to take out loans that honestly are often at astronomical rates, to then pay back their coyotes and get their lawsuits started,” she said. “Now, once they do that, their billboard attorneys actually often send them to doctors for procedures they don't need, all in the name of getting a larger settlement at the end of the day.”   

Who among you is shocked that a person who broke laws to enter the United States illegally, and did so as part of a conspiracy with an organized crime group, would then turn around and commit fraud?