I came across this news report: Traffickers jailed for enslaving Vietnamese women in UK nail salon. It reminded me of the Dept. of Homeland Securities human trafficking awareness campaign video, (the one you've all seen) featuring the tagline "the signs are everywhere". A segment of the video shows 2 young Asian people working in a nail salon and cuts to a concerned looking customer, the owner appears to be an older looking Asian woman. I did some searching and found a blog post which talks about nail salons being connected to sex trafficking, the article links to a news story about a "madam" on Queen's NYC being arrested for terrorizing sex slaves at two locations disguised as nail salons.
Then I remembered Terasol Bistro, which has a nail salon next door called Lucky Nails and lo and behold Lucky Nails is owned by... Vietnamese! (and does massages). I wonder if Terasol & Lucky Nails are connected in some way? Terasol Bistro is across the street from Comet Ping Pong, Bucks and Besta Pizza and uses the FBI's "girl lovers" pedophile symbol as it's logo and was visited by Hillary Clinton no less. Maybe she popped next door to have her nails done afterwards? Who knows.
Anyway thought I'd put this out there. Maybe we could look into nail salons being used as fronts for human trafficking and prostitution, the DHS video seems to suggest that there is a connection.
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Are_we__sure ago
Nail Salons are often used just for labor trafficking with no prostitution involved. It's involuntary exploitation, but in most cases, it is just doing nails and this is why they were in the DHS video. In one case, you have almost an exclusively male clientele and in another you have an exclusively female clientele. It's a way to profit from two markets. Nail Salons are a labor intensive business and cheap labor improves your profits. Some are also involved with prositution, but that would most likely be places that offer massages in addition to mainicures.
This is not true on several levels.
First off this is Terasol's logo http://www.terasolartisans.com/bg-5-575466.jpeg
Secondly, the heart image they used is different is several ways from the FBI logo. (And the fbi never said that iconography was exclusively used by pedophiles.) The pedophile logo is intended to be something you draw without taking your pen of the paper it seems to me.
http://www.place4free.com/Watamula/Assets_Watamula5/Pizza21.jpg
The hearts are different. The hands are completely absent in the FBI logo. This appears just to be a piece of clip art they used. You can see this exact same design used by a few other organizations.
Hearts with hearts and hands with hearts are pretty stand design ideas as you can see by the many, many clip art variations.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hand+in+hand+clipart&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS746US747&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiAjJL4j8DYAhXQSd8KHfL6BZcQ7AkIRg&biw=853&bih=393
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS746US747&biw=853&bih=393&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=khVPWv-0HYPu_QbWoYXACg&q=heart+within+heart+clip+art+hand&oq=heart+within+heart+clip+art+hand&gs_l=psy-ab.3...13425.18063.0.18870.16.15.1.0.0.0.95.811.15.15.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.51...0j0i30k1j0i8i30k1.0.geqNTpknckQ