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Motel 6 to Pay $10 Million for Sharing Guest Data With ICE
Motel 6 has agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims with former guests targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for deportation because of their "Latino-sounding names."
The deal is an amended settlement to resolve a case filed on behalf of unidentified victims of ICE interrogation and deportation after Motel 6 shared its guest lists with federal agents. Some of the 1,400 branches of the discount hotel chain allowed ICE agents to bang on doors during early morning hours to question and detain guests.
A November deal to resolve the litigation was panned by an Arizona federal judge in January who questioned whether either side could plausibly identify any of the victims, some of whom may be undocumented immigrants. Among U.S. District Judge David Campbell's concerns was whether unnamed plaintiffs would be willing to identify themselves to collect damages as low as $50.
[...] The new settlement increases minimum compensation to $75 while increasing maximum damages to $200,000 from $100,000 for those victims enduring deportation proceedings. Should the parties fail to identify the John and Jane Does represented in the case, unclaimed damages will be awarded to one of four non-profit organizations which offer legal aid to Latino residents in the U.S.
Minimum compensation ought to be at least $200 (see previous story).
Also at Reuters.
Previously: Two Motel 6 Locations in Phoenix, AZ Reported Guests to U.S. ICE [Updated]
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @10:35AM (6 children)
Illegal aliens do not have the rights of citizens.
The Constitution only applies to legitimate American citizens.
There was no violation, constitutional or otherwise.
This is a ridiculous ruling and it smacks of political activism.
(Score: 1) by Sabriel on Monday July 01 2019, @12:52PM (3 children)
"The Constitution only applies to legitimate American citizens."
1. That's so stupidly wrong I'm actually surprised anyone would even be capable of posting it. And if the constitution did only apply to citizens, then by definition there couldn't be _illegal_ aliens.
2. The clause "no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized" of the Fourth Amendment is a requirement that must be met by the police requesting the warrant and the judge granting it, i.e. legitimate citizens.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @01:29PM (2 children)
Less than 5 minutes on google says maybe not so stupidly wrong:
"Justice Rehnquist concluded that Verdugo had not established "substantial connections" with the United States such that he could claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment: aliens in the United States only "receive constitutional protections when they have come within the territory of the United States and developed substantial connections with this country."
So maybe only *partially* wrong thanks to that pesky 14th amendment.
Either way, precedent says the ruling should get reversed.
https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1108&context=faculty_scholarship [byu.edu]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 01 2019, @05:04PM (1 child)
Are you saying a traveler, let's say from the UK, who visits the US on vacation is not protected by any rights contained in the US Constitution? No right to free speech, no right to remain silent, no right to be represented by counsel, no rights against cruel and unusual punishment, no right to a speedy trial or a jury trial, no rights against double jeopardy, just to name a few?
This is good to know, because without that pesky 13th Amendment I can turn that vacationer into a legal slave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @06:49PM
And more recently, we have been opening internment camps (specifically the ones used on Japanese-Americans during WW2) in order to help house illegal brownskins coming in over the southern border.
Quite frankly if America really wanted to solve this issue, it would simply explain to the Mexicans how Texas defected from being a Mexican territory to being an American one, and as Mexican counties beg to be included in America, slowly annex them, not unlike how we conquered/annexed central and southern California from the Mexicans during the Mexican-American war. But the advantage of nearby cheap or nearly slave labor is too lucrative for America to give minimum wage and other rights to Mexicans willing to defect their states to America in order to see improvements in their local economies, infrastructure, and law enforcement.
American: fuck you, we got ours and a selection of yours too.
(Score: 2) by G-forze on Tuesday July 02 2019, @11:17AM
Even if that were true, the ICE cannot know who is and isn't an illegal alien based only on what their name sounds like.
If I run into the term "SJW", I stop reading.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 02 2019, @02:24PM
Somehow the dumbest people always think they have something smart to share.