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\u201cNO ROOM AT<\/span> THE INN!\u201d The U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted<\/a> on its official X account on Monday. \u201cHiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement. When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations.\u201d<\/p>\n Leaving aside for a second the obscene comparison of gestapo-style immigration troops to Mary and Joseph searching for lodging in the Nativity story, the post made an extraordinary and unlikely claim: One of the largest hotel chains in the world was taking an organized stand against the Trump administration\u2019s deportation machine. It was, like so many<\/a> administration claims<\/a>, a lie.<\/p>\n Behind DHS\u2019s self-pitying post appears to be a story of resistance by workers at a specific Hilton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n There has been no such coordinated campaign by the multibillion-dollar company. Behind DHS\u2019s self-pitying post, however, appears to be a story of resistance by workers and local operators at a specific Hilton franchise \u2014 the sort of pushback that should be supported and repeated wherever Donald Trump\u2019s shock troops roam.<\/p>\n DHS posted a screenshot of an email allegedly from the Hampton Inn Lakeville front office manager that said, \u201c[W]e are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property. If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation.\u201d The individual sender\u2019s name is redacted. The Lakeville property is independently owned and operated by Everpeak Hospitality, though Hilton owns the Hampton Inn brand.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Within hours, however, both Hilton and Everpeak released statements condemning the reported cancellations and affirming their willingness to serve the immigration agents terrorizing communities nationwide.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been in direct contact with the hotel, and they have apologized for the actions of their team, which was not in keeping with their policies,\u201d said<\/a> a statement from Hilton.<\/p>\n Everpeak said in a statement<\/a> on its website that the incident \u201cwas inconsistent with our policy of being a welcoming place for all.\u201d The company said they are \u201cin touch with the impacted guests to ensure they are accommodated.\u201d<\/p>\n DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, however, rejected the company\u2019s claim that the matter had been addressed, posting<\/a> on X on Monday night that DHS and ICE \u201chaven\u2019t heard anything from them.\u201d<\/p>\n Hilton then announced<\/a> on Tuesday that it would be cutting ties with the hotel after far-right influencer Nick Sortor posted a video online, which appears to show a worker at the front desk confirming that the hotel is maintaining the policy to deny rooms to immigration agents.<\/p>\n In the end, both Hilton and Everpeak publicly aligned with the administration\u2019s logic that has for months framed<\/a> the heavily armed, masked<\/a> ICE officers as victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe do not discriminate against any individuals or agencies and apologize to those impacted,\u201d Everpeak\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n Following unsubstantiated<\/a> claims by far-right provocateurs that members of Minnesota\u2019s Somali community are committing welfare fraud, Trump has sent over 2,000 immigration agents to Minneapolis in the latest leg of his racist crackdowns. It\u2019s a vile, base-baiting attack \u2014 not least because most of the Somali community are citizens and legal residents<\/a> \u2014 which businesses should indeed refuse to aid.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not surprising that there\u2019s little coordinated resistance at a major hotel chain. Big businesses <\/a>will bend over backwards to avoid going head-to-head with the petty and vengeful Trump regime. After DHS\u2019s social media outburst, Hilton\u2019s shares were down<\/a> 2.5 percent at the close of trading on Monday. For the most part, hospitality giants have gone out of their way to accommodate ICE agents, even permitting the use of hotel rooms <\/a>as temporary holding cells to detain<\/a> immigrant families prior to deportation.<\/p>\n These collaborations and acquiescence are all the more reason to throw support behind those who do take a stand \u2014 from smaller, more conscientious institutions to the workers themselves.<\/p>\n Powerful corporations won\u2019t stand in solidarity with us, but we can multiply acts of local resistance until they become an accumulative force.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Even creating short-lived inconvenience for ICE troops is better than advanced compliance. Every barrier to Trump\u2019s immigration forces moving smoothly through a city is a good thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Protesters blocking<\/a> streets, networks warning<\/a> immigrant neighbors of ICE agents lurking, judges<\/a> refusing to let ICE in courts, lawsuits<\/a> on lawsuits<\/a>, or workers refusing service to officers \u2014 these are all acts that can and must be built upon and normalized.<\/p>\n When the Trump administration violently escalated its anti-immigrant attacks on Los Angeles <\/a>last summer, protesters launched a \u201cNo Sleep for ICE\u201d campaign, staging loud and disruptive rallies outside hotels where federal agents were staying. The protests successfully drove agents from a number<\/a> of hotels<\/a>, and led the U.S. Marines to compile a list of \u201cLA Hotels to Avoid\u201d when Trump sent <\/a>National Guard troops and Marines to the city.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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