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Attorneys Suspect Motel 6 Calling ICE on Undocumented Guests
Phoenix New Times ^ | 9/13/17 | ANTONIA NOORI FARZAN, JOSEPH FLAHERTY

Posted on 09/13/2017 3:51:34 PM PDT by RightGeek

On a hot Wednesday in June, Manuel Rodriguez-Juarez, a 33-year-old landscaper, got into an argument with his live-in girlfriend.

While he waited for her to cool down, he decided to check into a $45-a-night room at a nearby Motel 6 on Maryvale’s southern fringe, where fast-food restaurants and gas stations catering to travelers passing through on Interstate 10 sit alongside neighborhood panaderias and marisquerias.

The front-desk clerk told him that he needed to show identification in order to reserve a room. Rodriguez-Juarez handed over the only thing he had — a Mexican voter ID card.

Six hours later, he was lying on the bed, watching TV, when he heard a knock at the door.

He opened it. Three agents from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement were waiting for him.

When asked, Rodriguez-Juarez admitted that he wasn’t authorized to be in the United States. He’s currently being held at the immigration detention center in Florence while his lawyer, Juan Rocha, tries to get him asylum.

While the case is pending, Rocha is trying to figure out something that’s been bothering him: Did someone at Motel 6 tip off ICE?

There's certainly reason to think so.

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Still, he added, “I’ll tell you one goddamned thing for sure — I’m not staying at a Motel 6 from now on.”

(Excerpt) Read more at phoenixnewtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; immigration; motel6; phoenix
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To: RightGeek

Motel 6, We turned the light off for illegals.


21 posted on 09/13/2017 4:11:14 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: RightGeek

Motel 6, we’ll leave the spotlight on for you!


22 posted on 09/13/2017 4:12:25 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: gubamyster

You get what you pay for. I remember an incident one night at a Motel 6 in Milwaukee. Racial overtones including taunting. At 6am the manager banged on the door and told them to get the hell out. State cop was behind him. Given the choice I’d stay somewhere else but I’m into saving a buck when traveling alone.


23 posted on 09/13/2017 4:14:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: gubamyster

You get what you pay for. I remember an incident one night at a Motel 6 in Milwaukee. Racial overtones including taunting. At 6am the manager banged on the door and told them to get the hell out. State cop was behind him. Given the choice I’d stay somewhere else but I’m into saving a buck when traveling alone.


24 posted on 09/13/2017 4:14:28 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: blueunicorn6
No, they do not. They have Motel Seis, though.

;)

25 posted on 09/13/2017 4:14:48 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: RightGeek

‘Motel 6 calls ICE on illegals’

They say that like it’s a bad thing.


26 posted on 09/13/2017 4:15:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Seruzawa

I’m not staying at a Motel 6 from now on.”....

Adios Poncho! We’ll turn out the light for you.


27 posted on 09/13/2017 4:16:40 PM PDT by DaveA37
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To: RightGeek

If I ever need a motel I will find a Motel6.


28 posted on 09/13/2017 4:17:13 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Uncle Sam 911
Motel 6, we’ll leave the spotlight on for you!

LOL!

I seem to recall something about Motel 6 sending local cops a nightly list of guests' names (at least in certain locations). I thought that was a clever way to deal with bail-jumpers and such.

29 posted on 09/13/2017 4:17:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: yarddog

Me, too. I stayed at some when travelling with my late father, who didn’t want to waste any money on a bed out of the rain. He always had a gun, regardless of the law.


30 posted on 09/13/2017 4:18:32 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Freedom is freedom, and not another thing."~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: RightGeek

Motel 6, a place that I frequent by the way (along with McDonald’s) recently started PHOTOGRAPHING IDs at check-in, and it’s all computerized now. So where that information goes is anyone’s guess. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit of DHS gets that information immediately, along with local law enforcement, and possibly every other police agency.

In this case, it’s hard to tell how they got tipped off. I’m interested where this newspaper got their information and whether it was fed to them selectively...as in more Motel 6’s being involved (i.e., the entire chain).

As it is, as someone who’s traveled quite a internationally, every country that I’ve been to also copies passports...so this is not something unique to the world.

As to Motel 6, if word hits the street that people here illegally or legal people with outstanding warrants aren’t welcome - that only makes Motel 6 a better place to stay.


31 posted on 09/13/2017 4:18:53 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: RightGeek
He added, “I’m assuming it was a Motel 6 person — I don’t know who else would have told them — thinking, ‘Hey, this guy doesn’t speak English, he has a Mexican ID card, I’m going to call ICE.’”

Sounds good to me.

You know what I never saw once in 25 years in California? A Latino / Hispanic in the United States with a Spanish-English dictionary.

32 posted on 09/13/2017 4:21:39 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Charles Martel

The local Motel 6 here is used by the cops to snare prostitute customers off web sites. It happens regularly and the Johns can’t seem to understand they are walking into a trap. Thinking with the wrong head I guess.


33 posted on 09/13/2017 4:22:14 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

i have. But at this point in my life, I refuse to stay in cheap hotels. The one luxury I afford myself.


34 posted on 09/13/2017 4:23:15 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: arthurus; All

Usually they’re clean, comfortable and affordable like ads say.One in Braintree MA south of Boston though had to close for 7 weeks, maybe permanently due to issues of clientele.. Drug dealers, prostitution, a cop was shot etc. Active facebook group Shut Down Motel 6 Braintree MA

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20170519/braintree-motel-6-to-close-for-at-least-7-weeks


35 posted on 09/13/2017 4:24:39 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: RightGeek

So what if they did? That’s their duty as Americans.


36 posted on 09/13/2017 4:24:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: RightGeek

The second best part about this is that there’s nothing illegal about an individual tipping off ICE, whether he’s just guessing or not, “Sanctuary City” status be damned, and that is driving the lawyer absolutely insane.


37 posted on 09/13/2017 4:26:04 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: yarddog

Yahbut the WiFi was outrageous.


38 posted on 09/13/2017 4:26:45 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: raccoonradio

Some Motel 6s are used for section 8 like housing.

Best not to stay in any that are in a large city.


39 posted on 09/13/2017 4:29:04 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: jiggyboy
...and that is driving the lawyer absolutely insane.

It's a twofer then! ;-)

40 posted on 09/13/2017 4:29:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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