{"id":16126,"date":"2018-01-05T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2018-12-28T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T17:12:45","slug":"washington-state-persecuting-motel-6-cooperating-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/01\/05\/washington-state-persecuting-motel-6-cooperating-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Is Persecuting Motel 6 for Cooperating With ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"
Washington\u2019s attorney general has filed suit against Motel 6<\/a>. Has the discount hotel chain been stiffing its customers on room rates?<\/p>\n No, it simply cooperated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when the agency was investigating hotel guests<\/a>. According to the Washington authorities<\/a>, that\u2019s a violation of the common law, the state constitution, the Washington Law Against Discrimination and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.<\/p>\n The Evergreen State is indignant because it claims Motel 6 was actively engaged in national origin discrimination. But the legal eagles in Washington have it all wrong. They\u2019ve essentially filed a bogus Fourth Amendment search and seizure claim dressed up as a discriminatory business practice and a trade violation.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s examine each of these ridiculous claims individually:<\/p>\n Accordingly, the claim that Motel 6 should be penalized for cooperating with a lawful exercise<\/a> of federal government authority is beyond absurd \u2013 it\u2019s offensive. And it appears that Washington\u2019s attorney general is targeting the hotel chain solely because its views on immigration enforcement<\/a> differ from that of the state\u2019s largely open-borders government.<\/p>\n Before Washington is allowed to further pursue its open rebellion against federal authority \u2013 at the expense of law abiding corporations \u2013 the federal Department of Justice should attempt to intervene and preserve the interests of justice. And Motel 6 should tell Washington that it plans to leave the light on, for ICE and any other policing agency that is lawfully going about its assigned business. \n
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