Motel 6 guests owed millions but might be impossible to find
Motel 6 agreed to pay almost $20 million to tens of thousands of former guests whose “Latino-sounding names” were disclosed to federal agents targeting undocumented residents for deportation.
The question is whether anyone will be able to find the former lodgers.
In a pair of lawsuits filed last year, Motel 6 was accused -- first by the state of Washington and then by a group of onetime guests in Arizona -- of violating state and federal privacy statutes and discrimination and false imprisonment laws. Both cases are on the cusp of settlements that would pay former customers $50 to $100,000 each.
The information-sharing arrangement worked. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents first were given access to the names at some of the company’s 1,400 locations, and then to the rooms so they could bang on doors during early morning hours to detain, interrogate and deport Motel 6 guests.
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