Hotel owners and workers have found themselves caught in the middle of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Noisy “no sleep” protests have targeted properties where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are thought to be staying, while on the other side, right-wing influencers have called out hotels that appear to refuse to rent rooms to ICE agents.
Activists have also booked rooms, only to cancel their reservations at the last minute and organized boycotts of hotels affiliated with chains like Hilton and Marriott that have accepted bookings from ICE agents. But those individual hotels are typically owned by franchisees — often immigrants themselves — who face a dilemma: If they accept ICE bookings, they risk being targeted by protests and losing business; if they turn away ICE, they risk being penalized by the chain as well as losing business.
In addition, many of these hotels depend on immigrants to perform vital services like cleaning and maintenance, often without authorization to work.
We want to know how the crackdown and the protests are affecting the people in the middle: hotel workers and owners. Please share your story below.
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