ICE activity is stressing Chicago’s building managers, who warn rents could rise – Chicago Sun-Times

Frightened by federal agents, some tenants can’t pay rent on time after missing work, while maintenance staff aren’t showing up to job sites. Property owners and managers worry continued ICE activity will force them to pass costs to tenants.
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The Craw
7 months ago

Property owners and managers worry continued ICE activity will force them to pass costs to tenants.” As opposed to passing the costs of illegals on to society! Cheap labor = lower overhead = HIGHER PROFITS for employers. Meanwhile, illegals cost taxpayers billions as they must be housed and fed and given healthcare and their children must be educated. At the same time this supply of cheap labor drives wages down for citizens living paycheck to paycheck. These property owners want to privatize the profits derived from illegal immigration and socialize the costs. Fun fact: it’s a violation of Federal law… Read more »

Deb
7 months ago

Maybe they hire US citizens, or people with green cards instead of illegals.

Call my shrink
7 months ago

They are laying the groundwork for rent increases. So they can really overcharge for rent like that slum ICE raided

Bob
7 months ago

To freaking bad . Hire and rent to legals not illegals!!

taxpayer
7 months ago
Reply to  Bob

One landlord said “It is making even my American residents and staff, who are Black and brown, scared to go to work.”
ICE is evidently not discriminating in who they pick up. Legal folks probably can get released, eventually, but note that due process rights seem to have been suspended.

Waggs
7 months ago
Reply to  taxpayer

No. Due process has not been suspended. People are detained (and subsequently released) by cops all the time. They do that for their own safety until they sort out who’s who and what’s what.

Ataraxis
7 months ago

Native Americans can dream about this, can’t we?

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