ICE used Marriott chain to capture immigrants, even though the 2019 Hotel does not work together

A Sheraton Hotel in Louisiana was used by immigration officers to keep people who are deported in an apparent contradiction to a position that Sheraton’s parent company Marriott took in 2019 when his real estate would not be used in cooperation with ice cream.

The interception initially reported that the Hotel am Macarthur Drive in Alexandria, Louisiana, near a large deportation center and airport by ICE, had been used by immigration officials in the early this month to keep a father and young son for four days after her arrest in New York. They were then deported to Ecuador. In the intercepted evidence that had been shared with the publication and were later seen by the Guardian.

The evidence confirms the report on a source with knowledge of hotel operations in Alexandria, who told the Guardian that the venue for liability for families and unaccompanied children since they were renovated at the end of 2023. The source observed that the source of which it is known to be assisted in the Sheraton in the broadcast of the unpublished minors in advance by Sheraton in June.

The source added that other hotels were also used in the area to keep a migration background.

It is not clear whether Marriott has a formal contract with ICE or what the company knows about ICE by using the Sheraton in Alexandria. In a case that arose last year, Marriott sued a franchise in New York after the hotel had entered a partnership with the city so that it was used as accommodation in the immigrant, and said it did without the approval of Marriott.

Marriott did not answer several inquiries about comments.

“It would be very unfortunate if large hotel chains of the gruesome politics of the Trump government to deport families,” said Lee learned, deputy director of the right -wing project of the immigrants of the ACLU.

In 2019, Marriott declined the idea during Donald Trump’s first term that one of his hotels or real estate – which would also include Sheraton and Courtyard hotels would be used by ICE to detention immigrants. It made the explanation at a time when the Trump government called for a mass takeover of immigrants without papers. Referring to anonymous sources, ABC News reported at the time when the administrative officers had discussed the opportunity internally that they may need hotel rooms because they are limited in ic HARKTAGESTENTEN.

“Our hotels are not configured as adhesive facilities, but also open to guests and parishioners. Although we have no special insights into the US government to help the use of hotels to support the situation at the border, Marriott has made the decision to reject all inquiries about the use of our hotels.

At that time, the position of the company won, as the public recognition of the American Historical Association, an association of professional historians, which announced in a public explanation that it estimated Marrot’s “fundamental stand” and found the importance of immigrants for the hotel and related industries.

It is well documented that ICE uses ICE hotels to accommodate immigrant families that are deported from the USA or transferred to other detention centers.

In a case in which national attention was drawn in April, Eis kept two families in Louisiana with three of their US citizens’ children and held them in a hotel for days in a hotel, although they contacted several attempts by family members and lawyers.

The families, together with their US citizens’ children, were deported in the early morning hours of April 25th and were held in Alexandria after legal submissions.

In this case, which have been checked by the Guardian, a short, handwritten submission by one of the mothers written on paper, which corresponds to the pictures of brands -Sheraton -Notizböfen, which were published online. The guard could not independently confirm whether the families had been arrested in the Sheraton in Alexandria.

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The reporting of the Intercept Report focused on the history of Edison Iza and his 15-year-old son Roger, who were reportedly arrested on August 9 at an immigration check-in in New York. According to reports, the couple were then flown to Louisiana and “locked up” in the Sheraton Hotel, where they stayed without access to their phones or the Internet for four days.

“We couldn’t call or go to the web to ask for help,” Roger told Intercept. “Without our phones, we didn’t know any names or telephone numbers.”

ICE did not immediately answer the Guardian’s questions about the use of the Sheraton by the agency, including the question of whether it has a contract with the hotel or used it on AD -HOC basis.

The hospitality industry is particularly susceptible to ice attacks and the deportation program of the Trump management in view of the high percentage of employees in the industry that are not documented.

While the Department of Homeland Security gave instructions at the beginning of this year that ICE agents should not carry out raids in hotels, restaurants and farms, this instruction was later undone in the Washington Post, according to a report in June. Around 34% of the housekeepers, 24% of chefs and 20% of the waiters employed in the US hotel industry are undocumented according to the 2023 census.

Additional reporting from Maanvi Singh

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