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 ...
Tom always left the light on for me.....and the room was at least tried to have been to cleaned...
as an old Vet...I hate to pay for times I dont sleep....
Lucky You....*S*
be careful what you wish for.....*S*...ask your wife...
“undocumented guests”? What does that mean— they didnt sign the registration card when they checked into the motel?
Yep...Stayed at the Motel 6 by the airport many times during the 60's to save $$ for the tables...Wasn't too bad, as I recall (Albeit somewhat hazily...).
Great minds, etc. Also likely the same age. <<
lol...and Lucky to still be alive...
Ironic..isn’t it....
By the time my day had come it was $15.
Yeah, evidently they don't consider the "Hell hath no fury" thingy.
Every once in a while we get a good story like this. Throw this guy and his lawyer out of the country.
” that is driving the lawyer absolutely insane.”
See something say something - came back to bite the illiberals
lol!
If it was her MAN did she #### him :)
Wow, did it really take 47 replies before someone asked the obvious question? Since when does ICE respond after hours to a motel call? I’ve seen deputies make 8 calls to ICE to come pick up someone they’ve got a hold on and wait 8 hours - suddenly they’re available (and three of them) in the late evening?
I’m thinking a pissed off girlfriend/wife called and said he was running a trafficking ring.
Trust me, Motel 6 does not want this news out. Their income is dependent on renting rooms to people willing to pay $$. They have absolutely no reason to care about your status of citizenship.
I don’t understand what the problem is.
Is that why it’s called that? ;D
Um. Why is this news?
Until 10 years ago it was legal in Washington State for cops to go to a motel/hotel and ask to see the register (where it is still required to let the motel/hotel to make a copy of your identification) and write down the names and dates of birth if every guest, run all theor names for warrants, then knock on the doors if every owraon with a warrant and arrest all the ones who were dumb enough to open the door.
The WA State Supreme Court ruled it an unconstitutional violation of the guests’ privacy.
I always thaough that was a crock since the motel owner could deny the request and the hotel guest could always decline to stay in a hotel.
But have you ever been stuck in lodi, again?
;)
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