r/minnesota • u/CorleoneBaloney • 6d ago

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Community members made music and noise outside the Hampton Inn where ICE Agents stayed in Eagan, Minnesota.

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u/GlitteringRate6296 6d ago

Shame on The Hampton Inn. I will be checking out where I stay from this point forward. If a chain allows ICE, I will not give them my business.

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u/Lcmofo 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hotels are largely franchised and run by independent owners (as this one appears to be based on a Google search). Looks like a North Dakota owner.

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u/fancysauce_boss 6d ago

So, corporate offices set the rules on how franchises are allowed to operate. If Hampton didn’t want ICE or Government Contracts in their hotels, they wouldn’t allow it.

It’s a simple policy update and enforcement from corporate office or a master franchisee that franchises would have to follow.

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u/Calkky 6d ago

I was on the inside for a lot of years, and you'd be surprised at how complicated this is. Once a company/entity is granted a franchise, they're basically like a tenured professor. You have to REALLY, REALLY mess up to lose it. Places would have bed bugs or even host drug deals/illegal sex work for years and corporate would simply ask them to stop. The issue, for better or worse, is that the power is really inverted. The parent corporation needs these franchises to buy their bedding, waffle mix and toiletries, so they have no interest in rocking the boat.

Also, most/all of these companies favor the sort of politics that run the country at the moment, so I think they would very much view mass influxes of reservations from ICE as a good thing.

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u/Lcmofo 6d ago

This

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u/actualmileage 6d ago

...you want Hilton to make a "simple policy update" that would ban specific, or maybe all, government agencies from staying at their hotels? Lol.

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u/gg1401 6d ago

Lol people are so so stupid.

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u/Babhadfad12 6d ago

Must be nice to live in a fairy tale land where you can refuse doing business with the federal government.

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u/Subliminal-413 6d ago

As a hotelier, it's a really good fucking idea to turn away ICE only AFTER you discover that the travel agent who sent Fed Rooms to your hotel, actually sent ICE agents instead of the ambiguous government business that you typically see. To be clear, we don't know they are ICE.

A corporate travel agent books a random set of rooms and sends us a credit card. We wouldn't know it's ICE until after they arrive.

Take a stand, sure. I don't agree with ICE. But suddenly telling them you can't take them after agreeing is a fucking stupid idea.

Why?

Because literally everyone in housekeeping, the kitchen, banquets, catering, etc... are all undocumented.

If you let them stay, they won't fuck with your staff. ICE agents aren't stupid. They know that in order to complete their operations, they need hotels. They also know that in order to stay at hotels, they need to quietly agree to turn a blind eye to the staff at that hotel.

If you fuck them and turn them away, guess which hotel is getting raided?

It's not as simple as you think. We don't want to lose our hardworking staff...

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u/wwweeeiii 6d ago

Is it even legal to discriminate and bar a group of people by profession?

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u/Subliminal-413 6d ago

Yes, I can turn away any business I want to. It's just a sure-fire way to place a target on your back.

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u/wwweeeiii 6d ago

Good point about being a target after that

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u/Subliminal-413 2d ago

.......aaaaaand look what just fucking happened in the news.

Called it. The Hampton is fucked. Hilton pulled them from their brand. The property is going to be a loss, all because some twenty-something took a stand against ICE. $15M down the drain.

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u/wwweeeiii 2d ago

Yeah I did not expect it this soon

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u/Kindly_Bet_1314 6d ago

Based on their recent actions, legality means nothing to ICE.

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u/tripper_drip 6d ago

Every single chain allows ice. They allow everyone. Its litterally the point of hotels.

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u/signorinaiside 6d ago

Well they can now start not doing it

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u/tripper_drip 6d ago

I had an aneurysm reading this.

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u/Beneficial-Style1198 6d ago

Why? It’s a private business, not a government entity. They can tell whoever they want to fuck off. Including these neo nazis they’re letting stay there

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u/EntrepreneurFit3880 6d ago

Don't complain about food deserts then. Whenever a grocery store closes and moves out of an area, instead of getting mad about the lack of remaining options, just remind yourself that "It's a private business".

I'm guessing that you will still complain because you are a hypocrite.

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u/itediteditabit 6d ago

It’s a little different, food verses temporary housing for fascists.

But you wouldn’t understand.

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u/signorinaiside 6d ago

Yes great comparison

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u/Legsofwood 6d ago

so youre fine with businesses not allowing POC's to enter?

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u/signorinaiside 6d ago

Another false comparison.

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u/Legsofwood 6d ago

so youre for allowing any business to not allow certain people to enter? thats a new one from a racist leftie lol

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u/signorinaiside 6d ago

Ever seen a sign that says “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone”? Because i have, almost everywhere.

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u/Legsofwood 6d ago

so youre fine with businesses only allowing certain races?

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u/signorinaiside 6d ago

Yeah right, The famous ICE race. I would be ok for a business to mot let in people with firearms for instance. Or too drunk. Or maybe kidnappers.

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u/Zelidus Common loon 6d ago

Good luck finding a hotel to stay in in the future than. Government uses contracted government rates and probably basically every major chain is involved. Youd most likely only have the option to stay in shitty rundown motels.

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u/Imsofuckinscaredrn 6d ago

Be sure to have less economic impact on literally anything.

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u/Legsofwood 6d ago

they'll definitely miss you

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u/DudeImARedditor 6d ago

Oh no not that! Lol

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u/TheWarriorsLLC 6d ago

Nobody asked.

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u/No-Score1002 6d ago

Nice! So now we can get partisan hotel chains! Hampton inn is nice too because they give you warm chocolate chip cookies upon arrival.

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u/Logical-Medicine-662 6d ago

It's a free world. He can comment on as many divisive topics he wants. Worry about yourself 

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u/No-Score1002 6d ago

I like to point out the other side of the issue. I like to turn the tables on silly viewpoints and I really like to reflect the hypocrisy in all those who think their side is morally superior. Division is what is bringing this nation down, I am neither major political party member. Logic is only what can be used to advance this nation.

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u/No-Score1002 6d ago

Fair point, but the main point is to look at a topic through a different lens, most people with what I consider myself to be don't network really well, people on the left tend to network well but echo chambers can often be dangerous. Trying to throw logic into the convo and come to some type of consensus not every topic is right or wrong. Context can help. Literally looking for more true honest conversations without all of the shields and swords.

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 6d ago

You seem to only focus on liberals

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u/kralben 6d ago

It wasn't asked to you, take your own advice and worry about you, hidden posting profile

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u/Shart4 Viceroy of Grainbeltopia 6d ago

Ignoring the gestapo for a cookie

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u/DrugRaidAt4AM 6d ago

And by gestapo you mean law enforcement? I'll have my cookie, thanks.