DHS (and MAGA) Pounce on Hilton Hotels after ICE Agents Denied Rooms

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Department of Homeland Security put out a series of posts, one showing screenshots of two emails cancelling reservations of known ICE agents. Even though Hilton quickly distanced itself from the hotel chain in question and apologized along with the hotel’s management company, Hilton stock fell 2.5% on Monday. DHS used incendiary language in its posts, saying Hilton was siding with rapists and murderers and conservative pundits quickly took advantage of the situation on social media calling for a boycott of Hilton hotels and spreading misinformation.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:15.4	Hey there, folks.
0:16.7	It is Tuesday, January 6th.
0:19.6	And the White House, well, they got their guy in Venezuela.
0:23.1	They got Maduro.
0:24.1	Now they have a new target.
0:26.3	Hilton Hotels.
0:27.7	And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Ropes.
0:30.5	I knew this story was going to go crazy because MAGA got one now.
0:34.7	And it was handed to a motorel ladder by Hilton Hotels.
0:38.7	I couldn't believe how this story went crazy.
0:40.7	Refuse to allow ICE agents to stay in a hotel.
0:45.9	And now this could absolutely hurt the bottom line of an international hotel chain.
0:50.8	It already has hurt the bottom line of an international hotel chain
0:54.9	based on one independent franchise outside of Minneapolis. We're talking about a Hampton Inn
1:02.4	in the Minneapolis area, but DHS posted this on X. This is what started this entire firestorm.
1:13.3	No room at the inn at Hilton Hotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to refuse service to DHS law enforcement.
1:21.2	When officers attempted to book rooms using official government emails and rates,
1:25.8	Hilton hotels maliciously canceled their reservations.
1:29.9	This is unacceptable. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with murderers and rapists to deliberately
1:36.5	undermine and impede DHS law enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation's immigration laws?
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