On Wednesday, the Phoenix New Times broke the story that two Motel 6 locations in predominantly Latino Phoenix neighborhoods were routinely sending information about their guests to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“We send a report every morning to ICE—all the names of everybody that comes in,” one front-desk clerk told the New Times. “Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE.”

At least 20 arrests by ICE agents occurred at the two motels ov…