Hilton Worldwide Holdings has removed from its system the Minneapolis hotel that canceled the bookings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the hotel operator said in a post on X on Tuesday.
After ICE officers booked rooms using official government email addresses and rates, Hilton canceled their reservations, the Department of Homeland Security said in a post on social media platform X on Monday.
"This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration laws?" the Department of Homeland Security said.
"We are taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems. Hilton is-and has always been-a welcoming place for all," the statement from Hilton said. In a previous statement, the company said the hotel in question is independently owned and operated.
Anti-immigration raids surge under Trump
Under US President Donald Trump, immigration agents have surged into major US cities, where they swept through neighborhoods and clashed with residents. While federal agents this year conducted some high-profile raids on businesses, they largely avoided raiding farms, factories, and other businesses that are economically important but known to employ immigrants without legal status.
Some 41% of the roughly 54,000 people arrested by ICE and detained by late November had no criminal record beyond a suspected immigration violation, agency figures show. In the first few weeks in January, before Trump took office, just 6% of those arrested and detained by ICE were not facing charges for other crimes or were previously convicted.