Landlady of the Queens was fined $17 thousand for the fact that she threatened the tenant-the illegal call Immigration and customs enforcement (ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
Although state law klassificeret the threat of calling ICE as discrimination, the case is one of a kind. As the Wall Street Journal «the lawyers [of the Commission on human rights] said they believe this is the first case in the country, when a man was fined for threat to call immigration authorities.»
Tenant Holly Andean told the court that she had an emotional breakdown when her former landlady, the Dianne Lisius, threatened to call ICE and humiliated her, because she could not pay the rent.
Andean came to the US from Guyana and she had citizenship of the European Union. In 2018, when Lisius threatened her, the woman was in America illegally. Since then, Ondan received a green card.
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September 12, judge John B. Spooner Lysius ordered to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $5 thousand, $12 thousand as moral damages, and appointed her 50 hours of community service. The landlady told CNN that he plans to appeal, but currently she has no lawyer.
The parties have time to submit additional comments before the Chairman of the city Commission on human rights will make the final decision.
