DoorDash driver says illegal immigrants are taking 'work from struggling Americans’

Ruby Nicole Day, who describes herself as a “working-class American who drives for DoorDash,” wrote recently for Newsweek that she was paying particular attention to the Democratic National Convention to see if the party’s leading lights would propose any policies that would help her.

Day was particularly “eager to hear about immigration” given the impact of the soft-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration and record high levels of illegal immigration has had on her as well as her family. But Day wrote that she was disappointed.

She wrote that “it’s disappointing” that the Democratic Party, which has said it represents working class Americans, “has so little to offer us.”

She wrote, “It's disappointing that the party that says it's for the people has so little to offer us. Working-class Americans have been a gold mine for America. ... We worked through the crisis while upper-class Americans sat at home safe and sound. We kept America going—and we are still doing it.”

Adding, Day wrote, “But what did we get as thanks? A wide-open border and an influx of immigrants who came here illegally who have streamed into our industries, lowering our wages and increasing competition for the industries we labor in.”

She stated that illegal immigrants are using fraudulent ID, AI-produced credentials, and even stolen papers to get jobs. She maintains that America has no effective system of identifying the fraud. She asks, “How can people come and take work from struggling Americans like that, and no one does anything about it?”

“How is E-Verify not part of every employer's onboarding process?” Day said DoorDash and Uber employees can’t help but notice the illegal immigrants on delivery apps. Day noted that to work for these companies, you must provide your name, social security number, birthday, and driver's license photo so that a background check can proceed and that many of these fraudulent applications are approved.

She added that the direct financial result of illegal immigrants muscling in on jobs is that her best day’s salary has shrunk from $100 a day to $60. Day is working a second job to stay afloat but her cleaning business is threatened by illegal immigrants who undercut her fees and don’t pay taxes on what they make.

"For some reason, our government has decided that people like me don't matter, that our jobs aren't "real jobs" and that it's OK to flood the market with a glut of illegal labor, driving down our wages and opportunities even further,” she wrote.

“This is my reality,” Day writes, even as she vows that she will continue to fight for my children, my family, and our working class.”