(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Illinois’s Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill into law effectively making “immigration status” a protected class, requiring landlords to consider illegal immigrants as tenants.
According to the Post Millennial, SB 1817 amended the Illinois Human Rights Act to enable illegals to rent homes as real-estate prices continue to rise.
The new law mandates that landlords and people selling properties cannot refuse to rent or sell, refuse to transmit offers, or refuse to negotiate with someone based on their immigration status.
Moreover, third-party loan-modification service providers cannot refuse to engage in loan-modification services based on a person’s immigration status—a situation eerily reminiscent of the factors that contributed to the 2008 housing-market collapse driven by an excess in sub-prime lending.
However, woke lawmakers in the deep-blue state seemed determined to repeat the same mistakes for the sake of importing future Democrat voters.
Democrat state Sen. Ann Gillespie released a statement applauding the bill for promoting “fairness,” despite the fact that it encouraged illegal activity.
“This law sets clear boundaries, protecting the rights of immigrants and ensuring that financial institutions and service providers cannot engage in discriminatory practices,” Gillespie claimed. “Putting these protections in place will promote fairness to ensure people are not unjustly denied housing.”
Housing costs in the state of Illinois remain high, with median rent in Chicago sitting at $1,900 a month—up from $1,750 per month from last year, Breitbart reported.
Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, warned about the negative impacts of mass immigration on the real-estate market.
“Think about what this does for housing prices when you have to house 10 million people that shouldn’t be here, that drives up the costs of housing when interest rates are already through the roof,” Vance explained. “This is economic warfare and theft of the American dream from American citizens, that is the big problem here and that’s why we have to keep fighting it.”
The sanctuary city of Chicago received an influx of immigrants from Texas’s busing programs. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott begging him to end the program.
“We have shouldered the responsibility of caring for more than 8,000 men, women, and children with no resources of their own,” Lightfoot wrote. “We simply have no more shelters spaces, or resources to accommodate an increase of individuals at this level.”
Despite the apparent lack of resources to care for the immigrants, Chicago lawmakers have had no qualms about extending public resources such as education and to their illegal residents.
