I’m terrified ICE is going to illegally take my tenants who I really like (who are legal refugees airlifted out of Afghanistan to protect their lives) just because they are foreign born. The cruelty it would take to call or threaten them with this on purpose is just horrifying. What a world. Thanks for shining your light into the darkness.
We are living under a hitleresque regime. Period! trump will work his way to exterminating anyone who is not a White Supremacist like him. He may cost this country a Civil War or worse. There appears to be only one way to stop him, the sooner the better.
Like you said, weaponizing the law to intimidate immigrants is illegal, yet increasingly prevalent, and shamefully ignored. My heart goes out to those immigrants, and we are powerless to change this. Remember when trump kept saying that Biden was weaponizing the law against him. Hypocrisy runs amuck, with White Supremacists. His nazi ICE are some of the most disgusting and disturbing people existing in this country. They have no conscience, no empathy and no morals to what they are carrying out. trump hired the worst scum to perform his despicable tasks.
I was unaware of this but sadly not surprised. Thank you so much for keeping us informed. Sadly Section 8 landlords have been very discriminatory for a long time as have public housing authorties. Taking rights away from and intimidating people seems to be the policy for anyone who needs a little help. We justify these actions because taxes are used to help but do we monitor the individual lives of the oil well owners who we subsidize and who are destroying our earth. We also pay the salaries of Congress and their staffs but we do not make any demands on how they live. Just plain garbage.
Pedophile Trump with his rhetoric has embolden de weakest sheeple in every corner they really want a civil war, just waiting to so who will ignite the powder keg
The level of hatred and cruelty seems to know no bounds at this point, with an out of control gestapo of ill suited, vigilante, insecure, macho, despicable men who want to make themselves feel better and powerful; but they are really just soulless and hollow inside. This is the type they are looking to attract. I hope they all in the end get their just desserts in crimes against humanity.
Damn, there is all sorts of stuff going on that most of us don't realize. I'm going to start looking at folks in my apartment complex to see if this is happening. Someone said there is some sort of ICE alert that can be added to your phone.
I'm going to start searching right now. Thanks for the info, Mr. Rashid.
This kind of behavior from landlords seemed inevitable. The rental housing market is rife with discrimination and abuse, and my homeless clients are at a disadvantage in the system. While the working poor might eventually scape together enough for a cheap apartment (if they can find one) they cannot pass the credit checks. And if you have a foreign- especially Middle Eastern name, or have brown or black skin, you are out. Threatening people with ICE is just one more way to keep renters down and under landlords’ thumbs. A frightened tenant is a quiet and compliant who never asks for necessary repairs, and never complains about unjustifiable rent increases.
Trump has already suggested Chicago might be his next target. Let's hope Pritzger has some big ones and tells the ICE goons to stop the intimidation tactics. What must it be like when your only goal regarding "the people" is to scare them, intimidate them and steal as much of their money as possible! Trump is evil incarnate.
The case of Escutia and Garcia against Contreras and Contreras makes for interesting, if sparse, reading. Learning of the nature of the dispute actually does very little to illuminate the reader on the nature of the dispute. Why had Mr & Mrs Contreras argued with their tenant? Why was the access to the items stored in the attic refused? Or was it conditional? How come the tenants couldn't say with any certainty what these items were? Were Escutia and Garcia noxious tenants? Noisy? Did the baby constitute a disturbance? And, with little to go on other than that the tenants "appeared" to be immigrants, all parties' names seem to have a Spanish feel to them. This was not a case against a faceless corporation but between people of similar cultural antecedence, maybe? I don't know whether that makes it better or worse, to be honest.
Whatever got this case started, the award seems high. The possible categories of damages are: conversion damages (what insurance would call "replacement cost"); and statutory damages - made up of actual loss (pecuniary, for material and immaterial loss and personal injury; a civil penalty of 2,000 dollars of damages per proven complaint); taxed lawyer's and court fees; appropriate and just equitable relief. Notably, the court awarded nothing under "equitable and just relief".
Punitive damages were pled for by counsel, and rejected by the court, in principle, note. Really, this is trying it on: the act states a reprehensible conduct and provides for a civil penalty (plus other categories of restitution). That civil penalty is the "punishment", but plaintiffs wanted another bite at the cherry. No, said the court. However, the fact they were pled for may, perhaps, say something about the strong feelings in the case (I take it the plaintiffs were not liable to deportation even if they'd been reported to ICE?)
The award for actual damages (if based on personal injury, then according to the scale, if on property, then based on receipts) amounts to $40,000 per plaintiff. The total therefore is not $80,000 but in fact $84,050, plus lawyer's and court costs. Escutia and Garcia did actually move (who can blame them?) and it would appear that the costs of the whole upheaval including mover's van in Chicago IL came to that large amount. I find that astonishing, but there it is.
In a way, the grounds for the dispute are immaterial. The act proscribes the use of such threats as part of a negotiation between tenant and landlord. They are words that simply may not be uttered from parties' mouths. That's it. So, the question in the state of Illinois, at least, is not whether you may denounce a person of reputedly unsure immigration status, because you can: the general public is in all matters of non-violent crime the biggest policeman in America. Because America pays grasses (1/3 of an income tax recovery).
No, you just can't threaten such denunciation in order to hike the rent. All's fair in love and war, and in the law of landlord and tenant. However, people do get shipped off to strange prisons in central America as the result of "admin errors". There could just be a Barbra Streisand effect to this court case.
Maldef: if the scrupulous tenants who come to them as the result of unscrupulous landlords tell Maldef the identities of the wolves at their door, then they will know who's within the radar, won't they? So, if persons who think they may encounter such denunciation problems go first to Maldef to ask about their landlord's probity in terms of complaints under the act, that will sort the wheat out from the chaff a little bit in the upstream direction. As far as those of Latin American origins are concerned. Sorry, Haiti.
There seems to be no depravity, no criminal behavior that ICE will not stoop to and that Trump et al will not bless. Just see what SCOTUS let loose in this country~ Impeach the traitors.
This admin is going in to change the documents??!!!!!! This is WAR.
I’m terrified ICE is going to illegally take my tenants who I really like (who are legal refugees airlifted out of Afghanistan to protect their lives) just because they are foreign born. The cruelty it would take to call or threaten them with this on purpose is just horrifying. What a world. Thanks for shining your light into the darkness.
We are living under a hitleresque regime. Period! trump will work his way to exterminating anyone who is not a White Supremacist like him. He may cost this country a Civil War or worse. There appears to be only one way to stop him, the sooner the better.
Like you said, weaponizing the law to intimidate immigrants is illegal, yet increasingly prevalent, and shamefully ignored. My heart goes out to those immigrants, and we are powerless to change this. Remember when trump kept saying that Biden was weaponizing the law against him. Hypocrisy runs amuck, with White Supremacists. His nazi ICE are some of the most disgusting and disturbing people existing in this country. They have no conscience, no empathy and no morals to what they are carrying out. trump hired the worst scum to perform his despicable tasks.
They attack us because as a whole, we outnumber them. They’re cowards and always have been
I was unaware of this but sadly not surprised. Thank you so much for keeping us informed. Sadly Section 8 landlords have been very discriminatory for a long time as have public housing authorties. Taking rights away from and intimidating people seems to be the policy for anyone who needs a little help. We justify these actions because taxes are used to help but do we monitor the individual lives of the oil well owners who we subsidize and who are destroying our earth. We also pay the salaries of Congress and their staffs but we do not make any demands on how they live. Just plain garbage.
Pedophile Trump with his rhetoric has embolden de weakest sheeple in every corner they really want a civil war, just waiting to so who will ignite the powder keg
The level of hatred and cruelty seems to know no bounds at this point, with an out of control gestapo of ill suited, vigilante, insecure, macho, despicable men who want to make themselves feel better and powerful; but they are really just soulless and hollow inside. This is the type they are looking to attract. I hope they all in the end get their just desserts in crimes against humanity.
Damn, there is all sorts of stuff going on that most of us don't realize. I'm going to start looking at folks in my apartment complex to see if this is happening. Someone said there is some sort of ICE alert that can be added to your phone.
I'm going to start searching right now. Thanks for the info, Mr. Rashid.
This kind of behavior from landlords seemed inevitable. The rental housing market is rife with discrimination and abuse, and my homeless clients are at a disadvantage in the system. While the working poor might eventually scape together enough for a cheap apartment (if they can find one) they cannot pass the credit checks. And if you have a foreign- especially Middle Eastern name, or have brown or black skin, you are out. Threatening people with ICE is just one more way to keep renters down and under landlords’ thumbs. A frightened tenant is a quiet and compliant who never asks for necessary repairs, and never complains about unjustifiable rent increases.
Trump has already suggested Chicago might be his next target. Let's hope Pritzger has some big ones and tells the ICE goons to stop the intimidation tactics. What must it be like when your only goal regarding "the people" is to scare them, intimidate them and steal as much of their money as possible! Trump is evil incarnate.
Landlords will lose tenants. A lot already struggle to fill units because of high rent prices. With this move, they stand to lose more.
Wow
Wow
The case of Escutia and Garcia against Contreras and Contreras makes for interesting, if sparse, reading. Learning of the nature of the dispute actually does very little to illuminate the reader on the nature of the dispute. Why had Mr & Mrs Contreras argued with their tenant? Why was the access to the items stored in the attic refused? Or was it conditional? How come the tenants couldn't say with any certainty what these items were? Were Escutia and Garcia noxious tenants? Noisy? Did the baby constitute a disturbance? And, with little to go on other than that the tenants "appeared" to be immigrants, all parties' names seem to have a Spanish feel to them. This was not a case against a faceless corporation but between people of similar cultural antecedence, maybe? I don't know whether that makes it better or worse, to be honest.
Whatever got this case started, the award seems high. The possible categories of damages are: conversion damages (what insurance would call "replacement cost"); and statutory damages - made up of actual loss (pecuniary, for material and immaterial loss and personal injury; a civil penalty of 2,000 dollars of damages per proven complaint); taxed lawyer's and court fees; appropriate and just equitable relief. Notably, the court awarded nothing under "equitable and just relief".
Punitive damages were pled for by counsel, and rejected by the court, in principle, note. Really, this is trying it on: the act states a reprehensible conduct and provides for a civil penalty (plus other categories of restitution). That civil penalty is the "punishment", but plaintiffs wanted another bite at the cherry. No, said the court. However, the fact they were pled for may, perhaps, say something about the strong feelings in the case (I take it the plaintiffs were not liable to deportation even if they'd been reported to ICE?)
The award for actual damages (if based on personal injury, then according to the scale, if on property, then based on receipts) amounts to $40,000 per plaintiff. The total therefore is not $80,000 but in fact $84,050, plus lawyer's and court costs. Escutia and Garcia did actually move (who can blame them?) and it would appear that the costs of the whole upheaval including mover's van in Chicago IL came to that large amount. I find that astonishing, but there it is.
In a way, the grounds for the dispute are immaterial. The act proscribes the use of such threats as part of a negotiation between tenant and landlord. They are words that simply may not be uttered from parties' mouths. That's it. So, the question in the state of Illinois, at least, is not whether you may denounce a person of reputedly unsure immigration status, because you can: the general public is in all matters of non-violent crime the biggest policeman in America. Because America pays grasses (1/3 of an income tax recovery).
No, you just can't threaten such denunciation in order to hike the rent. All's fair in love and war, and in the law of landlord and tenant. However, people do get shipped off to strange prisons in central America as the result of "admin errors". There could just be a Barbra Streisand effect to this court case.
Maldef: if the scrupulous tenants who come to them as the result of unscrupulous landlords tell Maldef the identities of the wolves at their door, then they will know who's within the radar, won't they? So, if persons who think they may encounter such denunciation problems go first to Maldef to ask about their landlord's probity in terms of complaints under the act, that will sort the wheat out from the chaff a little bit in the upstream direction. As far as those of Latin American origins are concerned. Sorry, Haiti.
This is just horrible! Thanks you for sharing this. What dreadful people are in positions of power!
There seems to be no depravity, no criminal behavior that ICE will not stoop to and that Trump et al will not bless. Just see what SCOTUS let loose in this country~ Impeach the traitors.
ICE are not my poster boys, but the reprehensible behaviour here is not ICE's, it's Mr & Mrs Contreras's.