Motel 6 to Pay $10 Million for Sharing Guest Data With ICE
- Hotel chain and plaintiffs reach expanded court settlement
- Still, many guests harmed by Motel 6 may be hard to locate
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Motel 6 has agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims with former guests targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for deportation because of their “Latino-sounding names.”
The deal is an amended settlement to resolve a case filed on behalf of unidentified victims of ICE interrogation and deportation after Motel 6 shared its guest lists with federal agents. Some of the 1,400 branches of the discount hotel chain allowed ICE agents to bang on doors during early morning hours to question and detain guests.