'No Sleep for ICE' Campaigns Expand by James Baratta

[justaprogressive]

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) arrested over 60 people early Tuesday evening after a large group of protesters packed the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca. Many could be seen wearing “HILTON HOUSES ICE” T-shirts, and a number of demonstrators ended up crowding outside the entrance of the hotel once the modest-sized lobby hit capacity. Between the roaring chants and ringing of whistles, their message was unmistakable: Immigration agents are not welcome here or anywhere, and businesses that serve them are legitimate targets for disruption.

While it remains unclear whether federal immigration authorities were in fact staying at the hotel, Hilton has doubled down on its decision to continue accommodating them.

Earlier this month, Hilton and a locally operated hotel in Minnesota apologized for refusing to serve immigration agents, something that local operators at the facility initiated on their own. Hilton followed up the next day with a statement indicating that it was “taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems.” The company also fired an employee at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, who declined to take down a social media video alerting viewers that immigration agents were staying at the hotel.

Hotels have become part of the front lines of local resistance against immigration enforcement. About a month ago, community members in the Twin Cities rallied outside a Homewood Suites by Hilton in Edina, a suburb of Minneapolis. As Sahan Journal reported, some 150 protesters “banged pots and pans, blew noisemakers, shouted through speakers and leaned on car horns” for three hours on a freezing-cold Thursday night outside the hotel where ICE agents were staying.

https://prospect.org/2026/01/30/ice-hotels-campaigns-protests-hilton-hotels-minneapolis-nyc/]

[SheltieLover]

1. Fuck Hilton!

[poli-junkie]

2. BOYCOTT HILTON!