Posted on 09/29/2025 7:28:32 AM PDT by Twotone
From border coyotes to courtroom decisions, a clandestine industry is exploiting illegal immigrants to bag billion-dollar injury lawsuits which advocates say raise costs for American families.
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.
“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.
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I used to work in heavily Hispanic East LA - there are billboards for these lawyers at every intersection and on every bus that passes by. There was a “personal injury” lawyer sign right outside my workplace bragging about how much $$ this shark had gotten for his “clients.”
They’re happy to sue the schools, bus companies, city of LA - anyone they perceive has deep pockets.
Some signs are in Spanish, some in English, all with “se habla español.”
Morgan and Morgan: on billboards all over the country.
“Accident’ law-firms all over are making life a lot more expensive for all citizens.
They didn’t become the biggest law-firm in the world ‘by accident’.
But, Morgan and Morgan are not the only ones in that shyster industry. Thousands of other accident attorneys in on the scheme.
“workplace”
Señor, your ID is fraudulent....
There’s something wrong with the legal profession when there are so many personal injury attorneys, but so few attorneys that will bring law suits for violation of consumer protection laws, or confining government employees to their lawful powers. Lawsuits against police for violating civil rights or malicious prosecution are extremely rare, at least if filed by an attorney.
The scam here is filing wage/hour lawsuits in federal court against both the owner and the business. The laws in this area are so impossibly complex, including not only base pay, overtime and hourly rates, but also lunch breaks, posted notices and etc., that one can almost always find a violation to pursue, regardless of how careful the owner is. Once a violation is established, albeit intentional or inadvertent, and no matter how trifling, the plaintiff’s counsel is entitled to their attorney’s fees and costs, typically amounting to 200K in an ordinary case.
“...to pay back the border coyotes...”
And that there is why self deportation is not happening at a much higher rate than it should.
Ditto for ADA - American with Disability Act violations.
The rules are so convoluted, complex and picayune that getting sued is almost automatic. The courts had to stop one guy who spend his every waking moment filing lawsuits against businesses - such as a mirror being a few inches too high - one business had to tear up its entire parking lot b/c it didn’t meet ADA standards - at great expense.
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