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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

I haven’t stayed in a motel since the 80s. Back then civil service had standard per diem for rural areas. The last time I recall it was $50 per day. It was divided in a strange way.

The maximum for room was $23 and for meals it was $27. Now back then you could eat at nice places for far less than that but motels were often higher than $23. I would often have to ask if they would accept the government rate. Nearly all of them would.


41 posted on 09/13/2017 4:37:52 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

“I remember when motel 6 was actually $6.”

There’s dirt younger than you! ;)


42 posted on 09/13/2017 4:39:00 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SauronOfMordor

If I was an ICE agent, I would make a deal with motel owners: call us whenever you get somebody we should take an interest in, and we will not look closely at your staff.

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That’s irony isn’t it? They call ICE on a guest, but yet...


43 posted on 09/13/2017 4:39:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: RightGeek
I hope that Motel 6 has a good sprinkler system *and* a good fire insurance policy.
44 posted on 09/13/2017 4:43:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: RightGeek

We’re paying for that lawyer.

ML/NJ


45 posted on 09/13/2017 4:50:22 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: yarddog

I remember when motel 6 was actually $6.


Was getting ready to post the same thing! Great minds, etc. Also likely the same age.


46 posted on 09/13/2017 4:50:46 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

1964 Vegas 6.95


47 posted on 09/13/2017 4:59:10 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: cableguymn

Does ICE show up to a motel room in six hours based on a phone call? Somehow there is more to the story.


48 posted on 09/13/2017 5:02:07 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: arthurus

Do yourself a solid and skip the Motel 6.


49 posted on 09/13/2017 5:04:19 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: yarddog

I remember when motel 6 was actually $6.


I’ve paid over $100 a night for a Motel “6”. In Miami of all places.


50 posted on 09/13/2017 5:07:48 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: RightGeek
he only thing he had — a Mexican voter ID card

Oh, the irony.

That card is probably accepted to vote in many ares of this country/

51 posted on 09/13/2017 5:52:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: RightGeek

My wife and I will soon be checking into a 5 star lodge by the Ocean.

We have been going to this lodge for decades. We are prime guests with the credit line approved for years. We go about once a quarter.

Guess what, when I check in, I still have to show my California Driver’s License at the desk with my vehicle license number before we can check in. In spite of knowing the desk clerk for years.

If Juan/Jose/Maria or anyone has a problem with showing an ID to check in to any hotel/motel, change the damn laws.

That has been the legal requirement since 911!


52 posted on 09/13/2017 5:55:21 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Did voting for Trump for President, make 62+ million of us into Deplorable Racists/Nazis? NO! NADA!)
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To: RightGeek

Maybe the US Government should consider offering a bounty on illegals .... say $20.


53 posted on 09/13/2017 6:16:34 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: RightGeek
only thing he had — a Mexican voter ID card

Wow, Mexico knows Mexicans. If there was such thing as an American voter ID card the 'rats would never win another election.

54 posted on 09/13/2017 6:27:02 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

PING


55 posted on 09/13/2017 6:30:08 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: cableguymn
ya, the pissed off girl friend/wife wouldn’t have called them....

My guess, too. It's not like women have never used law enforcement against their men before.
56 posted on 09/13/2017 6:32:57 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: BobL
I was wondering about that photographing your I.D.

A Motel 6 I stay at quite frequently just did that with me last week. It must be a new corporate policy.

As long as they are clean, I don't mind staying in a Motel 6. It's usually just me traveling alone for business. “Have gun will travel.”

57 posted on 09/13/2017 6:43:10 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Seruzawa

“Well I’m glad that some clerk is doing this but I will pass at staying in those fleabags.”

You can always stay at New York City’s finest:

Five star hotels ‘infested’ with BED BUGS after major surge in blood-sucking insects across New York City

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3438634/Five-star-hotels-infested-BED-BUGS-major-surge-blood-sucking-insects-New-York-City.html


58 posted on 09/13/2017 7:23:14 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: 2111USMC

I’m with you...been there dozens (if not hundreds) of nights. Never had a real problem, although one outside of Atlanta had locals outside...so I just stayed locked in, and noise once in a while. But that’s about it. Love saving the money, much better things to do with it.

I saw that policy at several of them last month, all using the same equipment, so it’s definitely chain-wide.


59 posted on 09/13/2017 7:26:08 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: BobL

My company pays all my expenses so I can stay at nicer places if I want.

Sometimes I’ll stay at a nicer place that is more like a suite if I have a lot of computer work to do. Otherwise, all I need is WiFi, a bed, and a TV.

I sometimes like to stay in some of the old mom and pop type motels along the highway. As long as they are clean I don’t mind going “old fashioned”.


60 posted on 09/13/2017 7:36:04 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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