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Major hotel chains headquartered in the Washington, D.C., area pledged not to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to use its hotel rooms as backup detention centers for immigrants targeted in this weekends raids.
Our hotels are not configured to be detention facilities, but to be open to guests and community members as well, Marriott International wrote in a statement dated Thursday. While we have no particular insights into whether the U.S. government is considering the use of hotels to aid in the situation at the border, Marriott has made the decision to decline any requests to use our hotels as detention facilities.
Choice Hotels, a D.C.-area company that owns 11 hotel chain brands including Quality Inn, echoed Marriotts statement, saying Thursday that its asked its franchised hotels to only be used for their intended purpose.
We are not aware that any of our franchised hotels, all of which are independently owned and operated, are being asked to serve as detention facilities, the companys statement reads. We do not believe hotels should be used in this way and will decline any requests to do so.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/452851-major-hotel-chains-pledge-not-to-let-ice-use-rooms-as-backup?rnd=1562962811
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I'd like to assign them some 'credit', but I don't think any honest 'virtue' is what's really 'behind' this particular decision, unfortunately.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)could put four to eight in a room and the hotel, motel could be making $3000 to $6000.00 a day. Pretty good rate for a hotel, motel. Glad they passed for whatever their reasons. This shit gets more ridiculous by the day