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Motel 6 Agrees To Pay Millions After Giving Guest Lists To Immigration Authorities

4:00pm November 06, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

The hotel chain has reached a tentative $7.6 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit. Motel 6 employees in multiple locations provided guests' names to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Gujaratis played a huge role in the expansion of Best Westerns and Days Inns across the country, according to one scholar, partly because they were willing to relocate to places like Berlin, Conn., pictured here.

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Here To Stay: How Indian-Born Innkeepers Revolutionized America's Motels

2:31pm March 05, 2016

by Alexandra Starr

Indian immigrants and their children comprise about 1 percent of the U.S. population, yet they own roughly half of all American motels. And 70 percent of those moteliers hail one same state: Gujarat.

From Dust Bowl refugees to post World War II travelers, people have long been drawn to Route 66 to make a change. That same story of transformation is still being told in the old 66 Motel.

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Building A New Community For The Rural Homeless

3:02pm January 30, 2016

One woman gave up a prosperous career with the goal of helping homeless people rebuild their lives.