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Perverse: Landlord Couple Ordered to Pay $80,000 for Threatening to Help ICE Find Illegals
Western Journal ^ | March 8, 2025 | Ben Zeisloft

Posted on 03/08/2025 5:51:42 PM PST by kevcol

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund will receive an $80,000 payout after representing an illegal immigrant couple whose former Chicago landlords threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on them.

The landlords were banned from discriminating against tenants based on actual or perceived immigration status under the Illinois Immigrant Tenant Protection Act of 2019, according to a Thursday report from NBC News.

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Catherine Schneider ruled that landlords Marco Antonio Contreras and Denise Contreras had to pay damages, as well as attorneys’ fees and costs, for violations of that law.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; cookcounty; sanctuarycities
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Cook County Circuit Court Judge Catherine Schneider

1 posted on 03/08/2025 5:51:42 PM PST by kevcol
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To: kevcol

Just when you think it can’t get any worse. This has to be overturned, and the whacko judge deported along with the illegals.


2 posted on 03/08/2025 5:56:01 PM PST by Omnivore-Dan (Shut)
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To: kevcol

Probably wishful thinking, but maybe this is just one more thing that will somehow, some way, get through to Chicago voters to walk away from the Dems.


3 posted on 03/08/2025 5:56:07 PM PST by simpson96
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To: kevcol

Do not threaten. Just do.


4 posted on 03/08/2025 5:56:15 PM PST by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: kevcol

Should have had ICE at the hearing.


5 posted on 03/08/2025 5:57:53 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: alloysteel

The judge would look great in an orange jumpsuit.


6 posted on 03/08/2025 5:59:19 PM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: kevcol

What a country.


7 posted on 03/08/2025 6:01:03 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: kevcol

Dyke


8 posted on 03/08/2025 6:01:30 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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Bull!


9 posted on 03/08/2025 6:03:42 PM PST by null and void (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity. H/T MortMan)
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To: kevcol

My brain saw “Reverse Landlord”...and went directly to some kinky sex position. Sorry....I obviously have issues.


10 posted on 03/08/2025 6:05:38 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: kevcol

Didn’t know that ‘Catherine’ was a guy’s name.


11 posted on 03/08/2025 6:07:20 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: kevcol

Moral of the story: Don’t threaten just do it.


12 posted on 03/08/2025 6:08:46 PM PST by circlecity
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To: kevcol

Gross! Another Obummer judge from IL.


13 posted on 03/08/2025 6:13:31 PM PST by doc maverick ( )
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To: kevcol

Who wears the pants in the family, the judge or her “wife”.


14 posted on 03/08/2025 6:20:46 PM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: cgbg

💯.


15 posted on 03/08/2025 6:21:07 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: kevcol

So now a State can compel a citizen to violate 8 US Code Sec. 1324 (harboring illegal aliens)?

Better call Saul...


16 posted on 03/08/2025 6:21:58 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
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To: doc maverick

And there’s way too many of them to count.


17 posted on 03/08/2025 6:22:13 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: kevcol

Never threaten.


18 posted on 03/08/2025 6:24:00 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: kevcol

Dyke Jewish commie orders legal Mexican immigrants to pay illegal Mexican NGO. That’s Chicago!


19 posted on 03/08/2025 6:24:43 PM PST by montag813
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To: kevcol

The rest of the story:

Escutia and Garcia moved into a basement apartment in 2017, and said the Contreras’ told them they would have to vacate the apartment because it was being sold, but asked for a full month’s rent. When the tenants asked to pay a prorated amount, Marco Contreras threatened to call ICE.

After they had moved out, the lawsuit said Denise Contreras wouldn’t let them come back to collect some possessions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/illinois-landlords-fined-80-000-for-threatening-to-report-tenants-to-ice/ar-AA1Ao5l2?cvid=C7FB8CBAC96B4329A3FC9C7D350C7D33&ocid=hmlogout


20 posted on 03/08/2025 6:25:33 PM PST by TexasGator (1.'1I1.I'')
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