A U.S. Senator from Tennessee is demanding answers from food delivery applications like DoorDash, UberEats and GrubHub, who have allegedly allowed illegal alien drivers to use their platforms.
“The danger to Americans—and specifically consumers using your services—is real. These illegal immigrants are delivering food directly to consumers’ doors without ever having undergone a background check and often without even using their real names,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wrote in a letter to GrubHub CEO Howard Migdal last week. “Deliveries routinely occur late into the night, compounding the dangerous situation, and—if the unimaginable happened—there would be little to no way to track the immigrant or bring them to justice.”
A September report in The New York Post detailed how illegal aliens are “gaming” the food delivery applications using false identifications, or purchasing accounts from licensed Americans and delivering food under those accounts.
Further reports say that Jose Ibarra, who allegedly killed University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, drove for DoorDash and UberEats in New York City, until he was cited for carrying a child on his scooter without a helmet. The companies deny that Ibarra ever worked for them.
Ibarra later made his way to Georgia, where his brother was also in the United States working illegally, before he allegedly killed Riley.
Blackburn took to Fox News to sound the alarm.
“One of the things that has concerned us is that you have those who have illegally entered the country who are beginning to piggyback on these [food delivery] accounts, and of course this came to light when you had the illegal alien who had been granted parole status who was delivering food in New York, commits a crime, leaves and goes to Athens, Georgia, again delivering food, and he then kills Laken Riley,” Blackburn said on Fox & Friends. “So we know that this is happening, and one of the things Carly that we paid so much attention to is how these cartels are beginning to find ways for people who they’re illegally bringing into the country to work, because these people have to work for the cartel to pay back their fee for getting into the country.
Reports indicate that potentially dangerous illegals are using delivery services like @UberEats and @DoorDash to cash in and hijack the system.
Biden’s open border policies are making our communities less safe. pic.twitter.com/8gqKZgnGU2
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) April 29, 2024
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Photo “Sen. Marsha Blackburn” by Sen. Marsha Blackburn. Background Photo “DoorDash Delivery” by Fritay Chez Nazou .
