{"id":82274,"date":"2025-03-04T14:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=82274"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:56:51","slug":"the-patel-motel-cartel-and-the-dei-loans-that-displaced-heritage-americans-from-the-motel-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/the-patel-motel-cartel-and-the-dei-loans-that-displaced-heritage-americans-from-the-motel-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Patel Motel Cartel”\u2014And The DEI Loans That Displaced Heritage Americans From The Motel Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Representatives of the Asian (as in Indian, not Chinese) American Hotel Owner\u2019s Association lobbying group.<\/h2>\n

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Recently an Indian-American named Patel tweeted this:<\/h2>\n

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There are, according to him, 40,000 members of his specific caste (Leuva Patidar Samaj<\/a>) in the US, and he says<\/h2>\n

Everyone from a part of Gujarat and same way of life in the US Literally everyone here owns a motel or gas station in rural America.<\/p>\n

This is not an accident\u2014this is called the \u201cPatel Motel Cartel\u201d from a\u00a01999 NY Times magazine article\u00a0<\/a>by Tunku Varadjaran.<\/h2>\n
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RTWT @ White Papers Institute Substack<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n

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Representatives of the Asian (as in Indian, not Chinese) American Hotel Owner\u2019s Association lobbying group.   Recently an Indian-American named Patel tweeted this:   There are, according to him, 40,000 members of his specific caste (Leuva Patidar Samaj) in the US, and he says Everyone from a part of Gujarat and same way of life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9806,13991,14643,14588,5594,18411,3553,16173,15639],"tags":[18590,16996,18587,7806,18589,9797,10817,18588,9527,18591],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82276,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82274\/revisions\/82276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}