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Motel 6 Is Probably Not the Only Company Tipping Off Immigration Agents
“It calls into question how far ICE can go, or how far private entities can go with ICE.”
On Wednesday, the Phoenix New Times broke the story that two Motel 6 locations in predominantly Latino Phoenix neighborhoods were routinely sending information about their guests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“We send a report every morning to ICE—all the names of everybody that comes in,” one front-desk clerk told the New Times. “Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE.”