Illinois governor signs law to protect
immigrant renters
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
8/22/2019 9:09:46 AM
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law aimed at creating protections for immigrants who rent in Illinois.
The law prohibits landlords from evicting or retaliating against tenants based on their immigration status. Landlords are also barred from disclosing or threatening to disclose immigration status to any law enforcement or immigration agency. (Snip) Pritzker says the new law will help make Illinois a “firewall” against President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. Earlier this year the first-term governor signed a law barring privately-run immigration detention facilities in Illinois.
Just another reason to flee the sanctuary State...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hershey 8/22/2019 9:20:48 AM (No. 158989)
Hasn't this fool ever heard of a 'tip line'??? Anonymous????
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janjan 8/22/2019 9:25:36 AM (No. 158999)
Unconstitutional law. Illegal immigrants are breaking federal law. The State cannot override that by prohibiting people from reporting it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/22/2019 9:26:57 AM (No. 159001)
Almost every day we are told to flee this state or that. What happened to staying and fixing what is wrong… We’re not supposed to be snowflakes, looking for safe places. There are none. Soon there will be no places to flee to...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/22/2019 9:33:05 AM (No. 159010)
Illinois is my home state. I left there in 1995. My children and their families are still there, although, I don't know why! Illinois is taxing them so that all they do it pay, pay, pay! I ask, why not move. They all have skills that would allow them to pick up and find a job in a much friendlier state, but they're convinced they have to stay until they retire. Then they plan to move because NOBODY can survive there as a Retiree! I say, go West, young man/woman! Even the Grands are married and starting out their lives living there. College educated, they could move anywhere, but they won't because they think the WHOLE family would have to go to the same place and start over! Can't leave anyone behind! That will never happen! So sad to watch!
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It seems to me that hellholes are springing up all over the country. What is wrong with America?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
my stars 22 8/22/2019 9:39:06 AM (No. 159019)
I find this really scary.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 8/22/2019 9:50:44 AM (No. 159032)
Well.... to “threaten” to disclose immigration status in order coerce someone to pay rent or vacate a premises is probably extortion and already illegal. However, to actually disclose to proper authorities the illegal immigration status of an individual without any ulterior motive is one of those things covered by that darned First Amendment, to say nothing of the Supremacy Clause. Governor Pritzker is getting a bit big for his already ample britches.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/22/2019 10:13:33 AM (No. 159054)
Makes me miss Blagojevich, at least he was entertaining. So suddenly the democrats are the party of states rights? Or only when it suits their purpose de jour?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/22/2019 10:25:05 AM (No. 159074)
This will reduce available housing for illegals - why rent to some protected class you can't evict for non payment when you can find other tenants? All an illegal has to do is assert that he's being evicted for being illegal, and the landlord is tied up for months while the illegal pays nothing.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 8/22/2019 10:48:31 AM (No. 159108)
Illegal aliens, not "immigrants".
And states should have laws making it illegal to rent to illegal aliens. And banks should not be permitted to open accounts, and a myriad of other simple things would force these thieves to self-deport, and stop coming.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rochow 8/22/2019 11:04:42 AM (No. 159138)
Let's hope the dumb voters of Illinois will throw this POS out as quickly as possible.
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Where the hell is antifa when you need them. This Ladies and Gentlemen is Fascism plane and simple. Government control of private property. If your waiting for someone to do something, go look in the mirror and ask it why ya ain't doing something. #4 is absolutely correct, time to stand and fight.
Militia anyone?"
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Dear Governor and other political losers, you were elected by We the People to represent We the People of These United States of America, not illegals. Too bad nobody calls you on it.
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