NYC Landlords Are Weaponizing ICE Threats to Harass Tenants

Landlords are using immigration threats to bypass due process — and NYC has to raise the cost.

A landlord doesn’t need a court order to scare someone out of their home. They need a threat that lands where tenants have the least room to negotiate: immigration enforcement. That threat doesn’t belong in housing disputes, but it keeps showing up anyway—quietly, casually, and with the intention to make someone disappear before a judge ever sees the fi…