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Landlord who tipped off ICE about illegal alien gang members faces investigation.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Gov. Lardass needs to reread the First Amendment and understand that tips to ICE are protected speech.
I would think it depends on “why” a landlord provided the tip. If it was because the tenant is behind on rent and they are hispanic, could be a problem. If they had factual information that the tenant was illegal, I would think they would be protected. You’re right that the landlord has free speech but if they engage in discrimination in the process as to who and when they provide ICE tips, they could be guilty of housing discrimination. Probably only take one false accusation for the landlord to feel the wrath of the Illinois government. Pritzker stating it’s… Read more »
Getting into the subjective investigation of “why” he called the feds can’t be the focus. Suppose you rat on a murderer not because he murdered but because you don’t like his race. That shouldn’t subject you to a civil rights violation. This is extraordinarily serious. Juxtapose this with today’s story about a teacher suspended for saying “Go ICE.” The suspension is a clear civil rights free speech violation. What we have here is a complete bastardization of civil rights law into selective enforcement and a government of men, not laws. I will write on this.
Not disagreeing with what you wrote or your sentiment, main point was show that JB merely stating it could be discrimination should have a chilling effect on someone reporting.
Also, in your example of “why”, the real reason was because you had evidence of him murdering someone and not race. If you didn’t have that evidence the “why” drastically changes.
Illinois’s fair housing law is unconstitutional on its face. Reporting illegal and criminal activity to law enforcement – ICE – cannot be against the law for any reason, despite what JBP says. JBP was talking out of his blubbery behind, as he often does, and quite frankly he’s got no legal authority whatsoever to butt in on state administrative discrimination cases. He was just trying to scare other landlords to virtue signal to his voters who love illegal aliens. To the extent the state has brought a discrimination case again the landlord, that’s a kangaroo court.
The answer is to put the criminal illegals in his hotels and see how fast his opinion charges.
He doesn’t own any hotels. He’s got zero involvement in the hotel business. The courts split up the family fortune among 20 different relatives. Most of his money is offshore, growing, accumulating without paying any tax, in investments he keeps secret from plebs like us.
When the glaring truth exposes your inadequacies, dip into your bag of tricks and begin throwing around “ discrimination “, “inequity “, racism “ and, last but not least “ Nazi “. There! That will make for good copy and keep the sheepies lining up to sacrifice themselves for the “ collective “.
The owner of the building effectively had nowhere else to turn to deal with crime in his building. The city, county and state police are prohibited from reporting known criminals in that building to ICE. If they do make arrests, the suspects are released same day due to the SAFE-T Act and just return home. These far left elected officials are derelict in their duty to promote and protect public safety and there seems to be no way to rid ourselves of them because the sheep keep voting them in. Is there no federal legal path to voiding sanctuary status… Read more »
Doesn’t the government sanction and promote tip lines for illegal activities ? In fact some offer rewards. Interesting
Jumbo has reached a new low. A new level of absurdity. He is now overtly defending and protecting illegal criminals and penalizing actual citizens for doing the right thing.
Now I’ve seen it all. A landlord, concerned about a bad element in his community, informs the proper authorities to deal with said element, gets investigated for doing the right thing?!? Make Orwell Fiction Again, please.
Is this guy for real,November remove this bastard before it gets any worse