In the United States, immigrants and their loved ones and communities have been reckoning with intensified anti-immigrant operations for months. Every day, people are abducted, and many of those being targeted live in hiding, supported by their neighbors.

Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US facing these conditions. At this time, we have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community to a strategy that organizers in impacted areas have been using: putting pressure on hotels not to provide rooms for the agents, making their operations that much more difficult to enact.

This year, Worldcon will be hosted in Los Angeles, California, and the hotels they have partnered with are two major providers of accommodations for anti-immigrant operations: Hilton and Marriott. We all can help by contacting the hotels with our concerns, and/or by contacting Worldcon 2026 organizers about their choice of hotel partners. The risk of losing the revenue from convention attendees has the potential to sway the hotel chains' decision makers at the top.