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 ...
Motel 6, We turned the light off for illegals.
Motel 6, we’ll leave the spotlight on for you!
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.
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.
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‘Motel 6 calls ICE on illegals’
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
I’m not staying at a Motel 6 from now on.”....
Adios Poncho! We’ll turn out the light for you.
If I ever need a motel I will find a Motel6.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
i have. But at this point in my life, I refuse to stay in cheap hotels. The one luxury I afford myself.
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
So what if they did? That’s their duty as Americans.
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.
Yahbut the WiFi was outrageous.
Some Motel 6s are used for section 8 like housing.
Best not to stay in any that are in a large city.
It's a twofer then! ;-)
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