Posted on 11/07/2018 7:56:20 AM PST by Steve1999
Motel 6 will pay up to $7.6m to Hispanic guests to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming it violated their privacy by regularly providing guest lists to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
UFB.
Interesting. My business has been the subject of Fed.gov investigations, and of course, they don’t give you any choice in giving info, or not
So what was Motel 6 supposed to do?
The $8 million goes to the “victims”..?
Not a chance in freaking hell..!
I got the feeling Motel 6 provided the info without being asked.
However, if you are a business and tip law enforcement that a wanted person is in your establishment, that is usually GOOD NEWS that they act on.
steal the border and win the immigration lottery. Why are we rewarding illegals?
Non-citizens should be allowed to sue in US courts. Especially illegals.
Non-citizens should NOT be allowed to sue in US courts.
I understood your intent - this place really, really needs the ability to edit a comment. Give the author 5-10 minutes after the initial post to come back and edit the verbiage. After that time the post is cast in stone.
Nah, I’ve started some of my most interesting flame wars that way. It would cut into the sale of asbestos undies too much.
Or, alternatively, give contributing members the ability to edit, as one board I know does.
Guess for those guests they turned out the lights.
Yeah I’m sure motel 6 didn’t have to give names by law though
$12 M more
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/motel-6-ice-motel-to-pay-12-million-after-handing-guest-lists-to-ice/
No good deed goes unpunished.
Pay to WHOM?? And how?
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