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   From: ac@alt.net   
      
   The swift response of Hilton Hotels to one of its locations booting ICE   
   agents shows just how dramatically the political and cultural   
   environment has changed in just a few years.   
      
   That change is very much for the better.   
      
   On Monday, reports came out that a Minneapolis hotel associated with   
   Hilton Hotels & Resorts had refused to allow Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement agents to stay at its location. The Trump administration had   
   announced a major surge of Department of Homeland Security agents to   
   Minneapolis in response to the massive Somali fraud scandal.   
      
   According to the agency, the Minneapolis Hilton location not only   
   refused to book ICE agents, but it also told them very explicitly in   
   emails that it was doing so because of their “immigration work.”   
      
   That was unwise. DHS posted the emails on X.   
      
   “@HiltonHotels has launched a coordinated campaign in Minneapolis to   
   REFUSE service to DHS law enforcement,” the official DHS X account   
   posted Monday. “When officers attempted to book rooms using official   
   government emails and rates, Hilton Hotels maliciously CANCELLED their   
   reservations. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Why is Hilton Hotels siding with   
   murderers and rapists to deliberately undermine and impede DHS law   
   enforcement from their mission to enforce our nation’s immigration   
   laws.”   
      
   Now if this was four or five years ago, I seriously doubt anything would   
   have happened   
      
   Times have changed.   
      
   Not only has the management of the most important political social media   
   app changed, not only is Trump back in office, but our culture has also   
   dramatically shifted too.   
      
   Hilton Hotels immediately put out a statement saying that it is entirely   
   against the actions of the Minneapolis location, run by franchisee   
   EverPeak Hospitality.   
      
   “Hilton hotels serve as welcoming places for all. This hotel is   
   independently owned and operated, and the actions referenced are not   
   reflective of Hilton values,” the company wrote in a statement.   
      
   It’s actually jarring to see “not reflective of [insert company name   
   here] values” used in the context of supporting something that   
   conservatives want.   
      
   Hilton Hotels announced that it would investigate the incident.   
      
   It didn’t take long for things to get worse for the Minneapolis Hilton.   
   Journalist Nick Sortor showed up at the location and found that the   
   anti-DHS policies were still in effect.   
      
   Amazingly, Hilton sprang right into action. They put out another   
   statement saying that they would sever the rogue hotel from their   
   system.   
      
   It seems they are quite serious about this move too.   
      
   Did Hilton Hotels avoid their Bud Light blowup? Maybe, if they continue   
   to follow through. As Jonathan Keeperman, co-host of BlazeTV’s “Rufo &   
   Lomez” podcast, wrote on X, this kind of immediate and voluntary   
   corporate compliance is a good thing.   
      
   Corporations in the Age of Obama had become particularly sensitive to   
   the dictates of the cultural Left. Out of a combination of collaboration   
   and fear, the Left reinforced its cultural values through corporate   
   force without even needing the government or anything else to intervene.   
      
   Of course, in 2020 the Great Awokening went into overdrive, as the Left   
   took every opportunity to cancel and exert its power to ensure that no   
   institution and no space anywhere would allow anyone to speak or operate   
   freely if they challenged the narratives they wished to foist on our   
   society. Conservatives and even a fair number of liberals were   
   completely, institutionally boxed out, silenced and ignored.   
      
   But as many empires become hubristic when they reach their zenith, so   
   too did the Left’s institutional empire. Most Americans became fed up;   
   they turned on the Bud Lights and other companies that were trying to   
   shove noxious ideas (and crummy beer) down their throats.   
      
   It turns out you can’t just box out half the population and insult them   
   and think there won’t be consequences.   
      
   And that’s what happened in the case of Hilton. This wasn’t just about   
   DHS or ICE.   
      
   Hilton Hotels changed their policies because they feared their   
   customers.   
      
   As Ed Morrissey at HotAir wrote, a large majority of Americans consider   
   immigration enforcement to be an important issue.   
      
   “In the latest Harvard-Harris CAPS poll, [immigration enforcement] ranks   
   third behind economic issues and health care among about twenty   
      
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