Landlords profiting from Trump's immigration crackdown

[EarthFirst]

Over the past year, 250 Delaware Avenue — home to the regional offices for ICE — has become a site of protests and vigils by those enraged by the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.

But other agencies involved in the mass arrest and detention of migrants — Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and other branches of the Department of Homeland Security — also have a footprint in the City of Buffalo and the surrounding suburbs.

Those leases, tracked and reviewed by Investigative Post, show local landlords and developers are earning millions annually through leases with immigration-related agencies.

Under current leases, the property owners together earn more than $12 million each year renting space to ICE, Border Patrol or another agency involved in the White House’s immigration agenda.

https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/20/landlords-earn-millions-from-immigration-leases/

In the case of 250 Delaware, Uniland has a generous property tax abatement in place through the Erie County Industrial Development Agency. In 2024 alone, that tax break cost Buffalo and Erie County a collective $791,000.

[MichMan]

1. I would have thought landlords were occuring a loss when their tenants get deported

[RainCaster]

3. Different landlords

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Rents have decreased in some areas where undocumented have been deported

But this is different

[leftstreet]

2. DURec