If someone doesn't pay property taxes, he will lose his house in no time.
Joe Exploitation is paying property taxes, he just isn't paying taxes on the overinflated income he is receiving by setting up a "cubical city" in his basement with illegals stuffed in every corner.
So tell me why our hypothetical landlord depends on illegals rather than legals to preserve his business.
Property tax is assessed based on the property value. That says nothing about how the property is used. Jamming 20+ illegals into a 2 bedroom house is common. You can bet the rent covers the taxes and a lot more. The tax assessed against a property thus occupied is not proportional to the services consumed by that property.
The owner of the real property has to pay taxes on the property regardless of the legal status of the occupants or the number of the people who live there. And so, while an illegal alien is indirectly paying into tax base, the local taxing authority would collect the same even if the house is empty.
Also, the amount of the tax assessment is generally based upon the value of the real property. Do you think that cramming 16 illegal aliens into a three bedroom, one bath apartment enhances the value of the realty or decreases the value of the realty?