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Posted on 06/06/2025 8:24:15 PM PDT by 11th_VA
MARIETTA, Ga. — Immigration agents arrested 12 employees at a Marietta nail salon on Wednesday, forcing the business to close.
The Luxx Nail Lounge on Chastain Meadows Parkway is now locked up and closed.
Channel 2’s Bryan Mims spoke with the regional special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations, Steve Shrank, on Friday, who said agents are making about a hundred arrests every day in the Atlanta region alone.
Video showed agents leading 12 employees out of Luxx Nail Lounge on Wednesday. Except for one employee, that was the whole staff on duty.
“This business rode on that illegal labor force. As you can see, they are closed today because they have no employees to do that work,” Shrank said.
He told Mims that his agents have been considerably busier since President Donald Trump took office.
“Over the past few years, we’ve had significant restrictions on enforcing immigration activity. All of our enforcement efforts had to be focused on certain priority areas. But we have broadly opened the aperture,” Shrank said.
Trump has clamped down on undocumented immigrants, signing an executive order to expedite their removal.
Shrank said his agency’s priority is to apprehend those who threaten public safety. But he said that when his investigators learn of those who overstay their visas or who illegally cross the border, they will take action.
It’s unclear whether the owners of Luxx Nail Lounge will face penalties, but Shrank said any employer knowingly hiring undocumented immigrants could be charged.
He said employers will be held accountable for hiring people who are not allowed to work in the U.S.
As for what led to the investigation into the salon, Shrank said they got a tip. They looked into it and took action.
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I hope so. I’m thinking of ratting out the local leaf blower cartel….
There are so many such Vietnamese nail salons with illegals, it became a joke on the show “My Name Is Earl.”
I am sure there are illegals in those salons at the Asian markets I’ve been to.
This is deplorable!
What next: hiring some illegal aliens for yard work and then reporting them to ICE to get out of paying them? And to collect the reward money? Twice?
Deplorable....
Will the Mexican Bagpipes be silenced? Glory be.
Polished off arrests at nail salon.
Local large discount store/supermarket in Michigan had a Korean nail salon in front. Found to be hiding their growing of marijuana illegally under lamps in back, with one plant less than the legal threshold for expectation of selling. 49 or something. Crafty.
BTW, every, even small, street mall has it’s Nail Salon. Amazing.
I’m still trying to figure out where those 200,000 Chinese men are.
All of the ones near me are cash only. Shady AF.
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Aliens. They aren’t immigrants. They’re aliens.
Ass backward values on what is deplorable.
Someone paid for French tips but got Vietnamese ends. Mayhem ensued.
It’s unlikely they are employees at all. Salons have figured out the loophole. The owner just builds out the work stations - for hair, nails, makeup, massage whatever. The worker then rents the space as an independent contractor. No payroll. No payroll taxes. No disability insurance. No withholding. Just collect the rent, preferably in cash.
If they were serious about mass deportations, the landscapers, farmhands, meat processors, etc., would all have been hit by now.
I didn’t realize it until just now but companies who hire illegals make it difficult for legal companies to compete.
That place is closer to Kennesaw than Marietta.
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