US EditionImmigration agents demand tenant information from landlords, stirring questions and confusion
MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin introduced legislation to require immigration agents to visibly display identification amid a 700% rise in attacks on ICE agents in 2025.
- Last week in Washington, Slotkin and allies introduced the VISIBLE Act, requiring immigration enforcement officers to display clearly legible identification and banning non-medical face coverings, according to a statement released by Senator Slotkin.
- Rising violence against federal immigration officers, attacks on ICE agents are up nearly 700%, Slotkin said in a statement, and she calls for visible law enforcement identification.
- The subpoenas force landlords to provide extensive tenant records, ICE can enforce only after court approval, and most landlords plan to refuse to comply.
- Despite legal uncertainties, tenants and landlords remain confused, according to Eric Teusink, Atlanta-area real estate attorney.
- Broader push for reform comes from a 21-state coalition which urged Congress to enact safeguards, warning that unchecked tactics undermine democracy and risk misidentification, coalition letter.
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ICE demands tenant information from landlords, raising concerns
U.S. immigration authorities under the Trump administration are allegedly asking landlords to give them private information about their tenants, The Associated Press reports. The government is requesting information, including rental contracts, rental applications, forwarding addresses, identification cards and possibly other personal documents. The new tactic is another sign of the government’s effort to track down and deport people who are in …
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ICE agents have long used subpoenas signed by an agency supervisor to try to enter homes.
Immigration authorities are demanding that landlords hand over leases, rental requests, forwarding addresses, ID cards, and other information about their tenants, a sign that the Trump administration is targeting them to assist in its mass deportation campaign. Eric Teusink, a real estate lawyer from the Atlanta area, commented that several clients recently received subpoenas requesting full records from their tenants. A rental request may inclu…
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