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.
John Warren has been in the real estate business for a decade, and for the first time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up armed at one of his properties last week to conduct a raid.
Until recently, it wasn’t normal for Warren to see ICE agents patrolling Chicago area neighborhoods. Warren, operations manager and managing broker of Forte Properties, oversees 450 units, mostly in western suburbs with heavily Latino populations such as Berwyn and Cicero.
He received word from his maintenance staff at a 24-unit apartment building in Cicero on Oct. 7 that there were federal agents at the property.
RSK: " Paranoia strikes deep...into your heart it will creep....it starts when you`re always afraid....the man gonna come and take you away" as the song by Buffalo Springfield goes. Is ICE really arresting legal immigrants or those that do not have a criminal record?
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