'Immigrants contribute heavily to the hospitality industry, which would suffer without their backbreaking work and commitment to their workplaces,' said Unite Here union president D. Taylor.
Marriot, which was one of the first hotels to publicly guarantee it would not collaborate with the U.S. government, said in a statement that it"has had no indication that any of our hotels have been contacted by the U.S. government to be used to detain individuals."
The InterContinental Hotels Group expressed the same sentiment, asserting that its hotels"are designed and intended for voluntary lodging of guests, and we do not expect them to be used for involuntary detention of any kind." While the petition to stop hotels from collaborating with U.S. immigration authorities was launched after President Donald Trump suggested earlier this month that widespread ICE raids would take place in the near future, the expected mass raids have yet to come to fruition.
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