{"id":17980,"date":"2017-02-24T18:16:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2017-02-24T18:16:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:16:05","slug":"immigration-police-raid-whitchurch-nail-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/02\/24\/immigration-police-raid-whitchurch-nail-salon\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration and police raid second Cardiff nail salon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_17985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17985\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17985 size-blog-grid\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/Elegant-nailscropped-700x400.jpg\" alt=\"Elegant Nails, Whitchurch Road where immigration officers and police visited last night\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17985 size-blog-grid\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/02\/Elegant-nailscropped-700x400.jpg\" alt=\"Elegant Nails, Whitchurch Road where immigration officers and police visited last night\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript> Elegant Nails, Whitchurch Road where immigration officers and police visited last night<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A MAN has been taken away after another raid on a Cardiff nail salon by immigration officers.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acting on a tip-off, police and immigration officers entered Elegant Nails and Beauty on Merthyr Road, Whitchurch last night. Staff were questioned over their right to work in the UK.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA 20-year-old Vietnamese man who was in the UK illegally was escorted from the premises and must report to Immigration Enforcement while his case is progressed,\u201d said Home Office spokesman Kieran Dougan.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTwo minors were also found on the premises and have been referred to social services.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\nLast night&#8217;s raid follows another in December at Cardiff Nails in nearby North Road when two Vietnamese members of staff were arrested and a child was referred to social services.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abbie Lewis from Whitchurch, who used to be a customer\u00a0at Elegant Nails, expressed surprise when she heard about the raid.<\/span><br \/>\nShe said: \u201cI won\u2019t go there again. They were rough and not very friendly, but I didn\u2019t notice anything illegal when I was there.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sian Llewellyn, 52, who runs Nail Divas, a salon in Bishop&#8217;s Road, Whitchurch, described Elegant Nails as a \u201cnon-standard nail bar\u201d with different practices in nail care and staffing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs an industry, we have a problem with \u2018non-standard nail bars\u2019. It is basically because there is no regulatory body for nail bars here, but there are in places like America or Australia. We should have regulation,\u201d she said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Some customers have already started coming over from Elegant Nails. One new customer said she was surprised when the owner of Elegant Nails did not know the names of the staff.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\nImmigration officers weren&#8217;t able to say if there is any connection between Cardiff Nails and Elegant Nails, though\u00a0Ms Llewellyn said she believes that they may have had the same manager.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She said: \u201cThe staff at Elegant Nails were Vietnamese. I am certain that she [the owner] had owned the shop on the flyover [Cardiff Nails]\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe need regulation, if we had regulation this would not have happened. If they did not have the right to be here it would have been caught.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\nThe Home Office said a business can be fined up to \u00a320,000 per illegal worker they are found to be employing people without the relevant &#8220;right-to-work&#8221; checks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People with information about suspected immigration abuse can contact<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-immigration-crime\">Crimestoppers <\/a>on 0800 555 111.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN has been taken away after another raid on a Cardiff nail salon by immigration officers. Acting on a tip-off, police and immigration officers entered Elegant Nails and Beauty on Merthyr Road, Whitchurch last night. 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