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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by sonnyblarney on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:23PM (#19586092)
The article is misleading and there's no indication there was any intent to target Latinos, rather, as a result of the handover, Latinos ended up being targeted i.e. if Latinos are more likely on ICE's target list (entirely plausible) than this is going to happen after cross referencing. Edit: re-reading now and it indicates ICE was highlighting Latino names specifically.
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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by bradlys on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:27PM (#19586134)
From the article:

> "According to our interviews with employees at Motel 6," he told NPR's Scott Simon, "ICE agents would circle the names that looked Latino-sounding and ran those names through a database and then would detain individuals based on those random checks."

Seems pretty intentional targeting to me.

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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by sonnyblarney on Friday April 05, 2019 @03:30PM (#19586152)
Yes, I re-read that and that definitely implies some kind of filtering, my bad.
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