The typical illegal alien lives in a house with a dozen other people, rides a bicycle, eats at Burger King (once a day), and sends as much money home as he or she can ~ usually half.
Even the nasty guys have feelings for their relatives back home so they regularly send half that's left over after basic living expenses.
Not a real good life. So far haven't met any of them who really wants to stay here ~ they'd rather be rich and down home.
They are undoubtedly ripe for assimilation.
You forgot the Sarc tag (LOL). Otherwise I agree with that post.
But I reiterate that the pressure put on the banks by the Clintonistas and the actions of ACORN and their ilk went a long way toward granting home-ownership to these undeserved while the deserved were shown the door while scratching their heads.
Near the end of the housing bubble, some lenders were trying to prop up property values by paying people to "buy" their houses; the buyers wouldn't get to stay in the houses forever, but they wouldn't have to actually pay anything for them either.
Such deals could be dangerous for people who have real identities, but would be perfect for alien criminals who do not. Your point about being caution regarding the 5,000,000 figure is well taken, but given that some lenders really didn't care who was signing their "mortgages", I see no particular reason to believe that alien criminals would limit themselves to one or two loads of free money.