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You Checked Into a Motel 6. They Gave Your Name to ICE. Maybe you were driving through Washington on a long haul. Maybe you flew into SeaTac, landed late, needed a clean room and a soft bed. Maybe you were a traveling nurse, a construction worker, a farm laborer, a family visiting relatives in SeaTac or Des Moines or Federal Way. You paid for the room. You gave your ID at the front desk. You expected that information to stay between you and the hotel. It did not. Motel 6 employees at properties across Washington state, from the SeaTac airport corridor through the Puget Sound region, took the guest lists they had collected and handed them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Not because a judge signed a warrant. Not because a subpoena compelled disclosure. The desk clerks, in the normal course of their jobs, pointed ICE agents at rooms where Latino-sounding names were checked in. ICE agents then circled those names on the printed list and ran them through federal databases. People were approached in parking lots. People were detained. People were deported. Families were torn apart. The man wrapping Christmas presents for his children at a…