The Trump administration put Hilton hotels on blast, claiming that their properties in the Minneapolis area are canceling reservations made with government emails and rates and are refusing to host immigration personnel, calling the hotel effort a “coordinated campaign.”
One reproduced email explicitly references “Hampton Inn Lakeville” and says they’re “not allowing any ICE or immigration agents to stay at our property.” That property is a franchise and isn’t actually owned and operated by Hilton.
There has been organized pressure on hotels, including in the Minneapolis area, to stop housing ICE agents as part of the “No Sleep for ICE” movement. This doesn’t prove the “coordinated campaign” on the part of Hilton claim, but it suggests why individual properties might decide to refuse stays.
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… pic.twitter.com/qKMKypGtzi
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) January 5, 2026
During the first Trump administration, Marriott, Hilton, and Choice hotels refused to serve as detention centers to temporarily house people picked up in immigration raids.
Hilton also told the federal government to stop using its hotels to house children detained at the border. Although some Hilton properties continued housing migrant families early in the Biden administration.
(HT: @crucker)
