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Illegal Aliens Busted for $14 Million
Gift Card Fraud

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Posted By: ConservativeYankee, 12/28/2025 1:37:34 PM

Another day, another exposé of illegal alien crime. It turns out the three men who committed $14 million gift card fraud in Texas were illegal aliens. Kristians Petrovskis, Romunds Cubrevics, and Nurmunds Ulevicus from Latvia are accused of the fraud, per a news release last week from the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center (TFCIC). But KCWX2 shed more light on the crime by stating that all three men entered America illegally and for the express purpose of committing criminal activities. Petrovskis, Cubrevics, and Ulevicus are accused of gift card cloning, according to TFCIC, and at the time of their arrest had over 400 gift cards in their possession.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mc squared 12/28/2025 1:56:13 PM (No. 2046377)
They came for political asylum: no gift cards in Latvia
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Venturer 12/28/2025 3:06:37 PM (No. 2046412)
Thanks again Joe.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: czechlist 12/28/2025 3:08:30 PM (No. 2046413)
as has been said so often we are not importing the best and we have no shortage of criminals
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bighambone 12/28/2025 3:36:32 PM (No. 2046420)
The leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrats want as many illegal aliens as possible to gain entry to the USA to boost up the population figures in the so-called Sanctuary Cities and other Democrat controlled areas to cause as much congressional seat re-districting as possible into those cities and areas where Democrat candidates are bound to win the required elections in those new districts, based upon the increased illegal alien population figures being counted and reported in the next census. Following that the Democrats want to pass a massive amnesty referred to as “comprehensive immigration reform” putting the amnestied illegal aliens on paths to US citizenship while transitioning as many of them as possible politically into becoming supporters of the Democrat political agenda and of course become tens of millions of future new Democrat voters. That’s what mass uncontrolled illegal immigration is all about today!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 12/28/2025 3:37:18 PM (No. 2046421)
How about a decade in prison, then deported?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: qr4j 12/28/2025 3:39:27 PM (No. 2046423)
THESE are the sorts of people the legacy media and the Leftist politicians defend. Add the nonsense in Minnesota. THAT is the lot the Democrats support. Disgusting! I hold every Democrat leader including that joke of a soon-to-be mayor of NYC responsible.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: lakerman1 12/28/2025 4:26:30 PM (No. 2046436)
They clearly are not Latvian Orthodox.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: padiva 12/28/2025 7:35:43 PM (No. 2046465)
No, #5, send them to Cecot.....where they will be in different cell blocks......forever.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: padiva 12/28/2025 7:37:59 PM (No. 2046466)
Doing the jobs that Americans won't do. /s
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rumblehog 12/28/2025 10:09:37 PM (No. 2046488)
You just know it's going to be bad when you find out the perps are from Latvia... and are here illegally... and are perpetually unemployed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DCGIRL 12/29/2025 5:13:41 AM (No. 2046511)
This fraud by migrates and illegals are the doing of the democrats. Thank you Joe and Jill Biden for this mess. It's going to take YEARS to clean up what Obama started and Joe/Jill finished. The only way I see the U.S. cleaning up this mess is the deport every last one of them FOREVER. Then you wonder why our taxes are so high. We are funding the fraudulent lifestyles of all the scum illegals and other migrants.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 12/29/2025 5:55:35 AM (No. 2046520)
We should change the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your greedy, your corrupt, your huddled masses yearning to steal anything that is not nailed down"
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