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FRANCHISEES: TAKE ACTION
STOP Hilton from Powering the ICE Machine
Hotels Shouldn't Be Staging Grounds for Deportation
Dear Hilton franchisee,
You didn't sign up to support immigration enforcement. But that's the position Hilton has put you in—by enabling contracts and infrastructure for federal agencies targeting our communities. This puts your workers at risk, makes your guests unsafe, and destabilizes the very communities your business depends on. It also threatens your bottom line.
This Is Already Happening
From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, New York City to Portland (Maine), Tampa, and beyond, communities are organizing, protesting, and boycotting Hilton properties tied to immigration enforcement. Hotels are beginning to refuse reservations from ICE, CBP, and collaborating agencies. When Hilton retaliates, communities are stepping in to support hotels that choose people over profit. It's working.
Franchisees: This Is Your Moment
You are the leverage. Franchise agreements give you control over what happens inside your hotel: who you contract with, what events you host, what business you accept. If franchisees refuse to house immigration enforcement, Hilton cannot sustain these relationships.
Join the call on Hilton to:
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End all contracts with immigration enforcement agencies
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Stop retaliating against franchisees who refuse ICE-related business
Sign the Open Letter
Once you add your name, you'll be able to read a sample before signing.
What Is STOP & Break the ICE Machine?
STOP (Stop Taking Our People) names the reality: immigration and criminal enforcement are one machine — powered by anti-Blackness — designed to control, cage, and disappear our people.
Break the ICE Machine targets the infrastructure that makes enforcement possible. ICE and its partners travel, sleep, and train. Hotels like yours make that possible. When the infrastructure breaks, the machine breaks.
The Business Case
Today's travelers pay attention. They choose where to stay based on safety and values — and actively avoid hotels tied to immigration enforcement.
Conventions are relocating. Faith groups are canceling bookings. Advocacy organizations are shifting business to competitors. Franchise owners absorb those losses. Hilton Corporation does not. ICE-related bookings will not make up the difference. A clear stance now protects your future revenue.
This Is an Invitation
You don't have to choose between your community and your business. Your community is your business.
Refuse ICE contracts. Sign the letter. Put pressure on Hilton from the inside.
Safety comes from community. We keep us safe.
Learn More: wemakethemstop.org