The Kid Rock’s restaurant was among many others in Nashville belonging to the conservative and supporter restaurateur of Donald Trump, Steve Smith, where undocumented cooking staff was invited to go home to avoid rumors of immigration raids this weekend.
The restaurant – whose full name is the Big Ass of Kid Rock Honky Tonk Rock N ‘Roll Steakhouse, and is authorized by the right -wing musician Kid Rock, who has also become one of the most prominent parts of the American president – would have struggled to serve the crowd after the concert on Saturday evening after the command of managers who instructed the employees without legal status.
“Around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, our manager returned and said to anyone without legal status to go home,” said an anonymous employee at the point of sale.
“The events at the Ryman, ascends, the Savannah Bananas baseball game all let out, and it was crazy. But there was no one in the kitchen to cook food.”
Like Kid Rock, Smith cultivated a reputation as a vocal curator, fighting COVVI-19 restrictions and supporting Trump with campaign donations. However, the episode seemed to suggest that its establishments – including dinner and Honky Tonk central – partly depend on undocumented work that the president has promised to expel from the United States.
An aggressive immigration scan began on May 3, when state soldiers and unmarked ice vehicles have considerably increased traffic stops in South Nashville. The operation aroused at least 196 arrests – including 101 people without criminal history, according to a press release from the Ministry of Internal Security.
Trump and the DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, publicly celebrated accelerated deportations nationwide, who trapped legal residents alongside undocumented immigrants.
Last week, ICE agents visited at least nine restaurants in the Washington DC region.
The disruption of the service in Nashville continued until Sunday, while frightening workers have chosen to stay at home rather than risking detention.
Nashville officials, including the mayor and several metro advisers, denounced the raids, but the city’s legal director, Wallace Dietz, said local government was “helpless” against state and federal immigration implementation measures.
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According to a Rolling Stone profile of Kid Rock, during his concerts, he mocked against the “open borders” and echoed Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, in particular by affirming that some are “murderers! They are rapists! They are! MS-13! “
In 2019, a second restaurant authorized by Kid Rock in Detroit closed in the middle of the backlash on a video of him comments on the blasphemy on Oprah Winfrey when he was apparently drunk during a Nashville event. The Ilitch family, which owned the arena in which the restaurant was hosted, announced that Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, had “voluntarily decided not to renew” his license agreement for Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit.
