GREG K. BOVINO: That is just one state’s recorded totals, paid for largely by local taxpayers. All of that is paid for by the same cities and counties that are told they should feel grateful for the “cheap labor.”

Folks, let’s talk about something that never quite makes it into the polite public conversation...

You’ve heard me say it before, there is no such thing as cheap labor, right?

What looks cheap on a construction site or in a restaurant kitchen is only cheap because someone… https://t.co/HLikZ1hq6I

— Gregory K Bovino (@GregoryKBovino) August 22, 2026

Folks, let’s talk about something that never quite makes it into the polite public conversation... You’ve heard me say it before, there is no such thing as cheap labor, right? What looks cheap on a construction site or in a restaurant kitchen is only cheap because someone else is quietly picking up the real tab. YOU AND ME! One of the biggest, least-discussed tabs is the cost of investigating the crimes that come with large-scale illegal immigration, especially the sex crimes. In my 30 years in law enforcement, I watched local police departments, sheriff’s offices, and prosecutors’ offices burn enormous amounts of time, overtime, forensic resources, victim services, and court days on cases involving ILLEGAL ALIENS. The pattern was consistent enough that it stopped surprising me and started making me angry on behalf of the taxpayers. Sex offenses involving minors and women were disproportionately represented in that workload. Not every illegal immigrant, of course. But the rate was high enough, and the cultural patterns behind it were clear enough, that local agencies ended up carrying a load that was never supposed to be theirs. The feds abandoned them. For those of you that need stats, Texas Department of Public Safety data shows that from June 2011 through March 2026, illegal aliens were charged with 7,639 sexual assault offenses and 8,674 other sex offenses. Those charges have already produced 3,895 sexual assault convictions and 3,972 convictions for other sex offenses. That is just one state’s recorded totals, paid for largely by local taxpayers. Nobody runs the full national numbers in public... How many detective hours? How many DNA tests? How many interpreters, how many victim advocates, how many nights a child-protection worker spends dealing with the fallout? All of that is paid for by the same cities and counties that are told they should feel grateful for the “cheap labor.” When you add those investigation and prosecution costs to the hospital bills, the welfare costs, the school costs, and the lost productivity of actual victims, the labor stops looking cheap. It starts looking subsidized, by the very people who never consented to the subsidy. YOU AND ME!!! That’s not hate. That’s accounting.

And the accounting is rarely allowed on stage.