{"id":52184,"date":"2026-01-05T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52184"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:06:12","slug":"minneapolis-hilton-hotel-cancels-immigration-agents-reservations-dhs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52184","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis Hilton hotel cancels immigration agents&#8217; reservations, DHS says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jan 5 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday said a Hilton&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/HLT.N\"><u>(HLT.N), opens new tab<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;hotel canceled reservations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, where the Trump administration has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/fbi-investigating-minnesota-fraud-scheme-director-says-2025-12-28\/\"><u>surged officers<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;after allegations of fraud against Somali immigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After ICE officers booked rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton canceled their reservations, DHS said in a post on social media platform X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The department also posted screenshots of emails, in which the hotel&#8217;s operators said they had &#8220;noticed an influx of GOV reservations made today that have been for DHS,&#8221; and that they were not allowing any ICE agents to stay at the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Hilton Worldwide Holdings said the property is independently owned and operated and is investigating the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Hilton works with governments, law enforcement and community leaders around the world to ensure our properties are open and inviting to everyone,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Federal officials in recent weeks have portrayed Minnesota&#8217;s Somali community as a hotspot for fraud involving millions of federal dollars intended for social services. Immigrant-rights advocates have accused the administration of using the fraud investigations as an excuse to target Somali immigrants more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shares of the hotel chain were down 1.5% in afternoon trading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/hiltons-minneapolis-hotel-cancels-reservations-law-enforcement-officers-dhs-says-2026-01-05\/\">reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 5 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday said a Hilton&nbsp;(HLT.N), opens new tab&nbsp;hotel canceled reservations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis, where the Trump administration has&nbsp;surged officers&nbsp;after allegations of fraud against Somali immigrants. After ICE officers booked rooms using official government emails and rates, Hilton canceled their reservations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":52185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152],"tags":[1562,1214,35885],"class_list":["post-52184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanrights","tag-dhs","tag-immigration","tag-minneapolis-hilton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52186,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52184\/revisions\/52186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}