Taco chain forced to shut seven restaurants after workers are detained by ICE

Daily Mail UK ^ | December 11, 2025 | Martha Williams

[Morgana]

Don't ya just hate it when that happens? /sarc

[HIDEK6]

Sob story #7,403.

[V_TWIN]

Word has it that Taco Bell “dropped a dime”.

[Libloather]

Now self-serve?

[Mathews]

So, 56 employees living in a couple of houses.... Yeah, nothing going on there.

[9YearLurker]

Forty-six workers in a couple of houses?!?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

All I know is that there is almost NO rush hours traffic now.

I think the number of crimmigrants is underreported by tens of millions.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

That spells the end for tacos 🌮 in Arizona. /s

[BobL]

“Word has it that Taco Bell “dropped a dime”.”

Considering what they call ‘tacos’, I doubt there’s any REAL Mexicans working there...so, good move on their part.

[Magnum44]

Or maybe this chain ratted them out…

[PortugeeJoe]

That happened here in southern NH about a decade ago, but it wasn’t Uncle Sam that found it. An older 4 bedroom farmhouse was rented out to a Chinese family that owned a couple of restaurants nearby. But instead of them moving in, they moved in more than a dozen of their employees who lived in Boston. But they would cycle through the house working 5 day shifts and going back to Boston the other 2 days. The only neighbor on the dead end street got suspicious seeing all of the different cars and people coming and going to the house that they called the Police. After some surveillance, an early morning Police visit found 13 people sleeping there, with mattresses on the floor in every room but the kitchen. The story did not say anything about them being there legally or not, but both restaurants closed within a few months and I believe the restaurant owners had to pay the landlord a lot of $$$ to repair the house, as the house had been trashed.

[ansel12]

America is now a land of exotic restaurants created by mass immigration, and they don’t follow hiring laws against discrimination, diversity doesn’t exist in their work places, whether a restaurant or a construction crew.

Foreign policy described by Margaret Thatcher as “Lose a country, gain a restaurant,”.

[Dr. Sivana]

Word has it that Taco Bell “dropped a dime”.

Arizona? My money's on Filiberto's.

I think the real Mexican cartel action is going on at "Pollo Loco". which looks VERY much like an inspiration for "Los Pollo Hermanos" in "Breaking Bad".

[pierrem15]

Cash under the table? That’s some major tax fraud as well as hiring illegals.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Lock up the owners.

[Salman]

What I voted for :)

[OrangeHoof]

...which operates nine locations in the state and one in Mexico

I think I see the problemo here.

[ncalburt]

Maybe time to close down the chain for hiring , housing ,and maybe transporting illegals .
Just a idea.
unreal .

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The feds should indict the owners/franchizees/managers for illegally employing the criminal aliens.

[OrangeHoof]

I tell people in Texas you can have authentic Mexican cooking made by authentic Mexicans

and you can have authentic barbecue cooked by authentic Mexicans

and you can have authentic Italian food cooked by authentic Mexicans

and you can have authentic Chinese food cooked by authentic Mexicans

and you can have authentic German food cooked by authentic Mexicans

and you can have authentic Vietnamese food cooked by authentic Vietnamese.