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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
I didn't label anyone as such. If I squat in a rooming house but I pay the amount the rent would of been anyways I'm still breaking the law. I didn't give the landlord the choice. There is legal means to entering a country I don't understand why that's a hard thing to want to be upheld.
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The question is how do you uphold it? Actions have consequences, often unintended ones.
If the vacancy rate is 30% sure you might not be happy that a squatter is living in some your rentals paying rent, but if kicking them out suddenly meant you'd be taking a big loss monthly you probably should think twice about doing it. Or if the squatters all had a much lower rate of being late on rent and damaging your properties. Might not want to evict the squatter just because they let you know their neighbour was planning to trash their place, saving you money. Etc...
They may be there illegally, but they're still people and deserve to be treated like people, it's not like they're committing a violent crime. They certainly don't deserve to be used as rhetoric to whip voters into a fear induced frenzy.