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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has ordered all-out efforts to respond to the arrests of hundreds of the countrys citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor-LG car battery factory in the United States.
Thursdays arrest of some 475 workers more than 300 of them South Korean nationals at the plant near Savannah in the southern US state of Georgia was the largest single-site enforcement operation carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an arm of the US Department of Homeland Security.
More:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/6/anger-in-seoul-as-trump-calls-detained-south-korea-workers-illegal-aliens

everyonematters
(3,907 posts)travelingthrulife
(3,145 posts)Perhaps this is one of his 5011th 4D chess moves to promote peace in Korea...Nobel for sure!
SickOfTheOnePct
(8,401 posts)..."deeply concerned"...I'm assuming then that South Korea allows foreign nationals to work illegally in South Korea?
travelingthrulife
(3,145 posts)Seems like a lot of these arrests are people who have their work visas and have been checking in like they were told to do. Big headline over hundreds arrested, no comment on those released without charge later.
RandomNumbers
(18,864 posts)I am one of the LAST people on this site you will find defending illegal immigration (or, "legal" immigration when it really does undercut American workers ... i.e. much of how H1B is actually applied)
RandomNumbers
(18,864 posts)Key points:
* to the extent the allegations are true, many detained WERE here "illegally" but not in the way the rabid wrong-wing would normally think of it - more minor violation stuff
* at least a few, according to their lawyers, were NOT in violation of their visas, and are wrongly detained
* few if any worked directly for Hyundai. If a significant % of the allegations turn out to be true, Hyundai DOES need to overhaul the HR department that is responsible for hiring of contractors and subcontractors, and probably outright fire at least one contracting agency.
* ... see highlighted section below ...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/06/us/georgia-hyundai-plant-raid-timeline
One client arrived in the US last week, and the other arrived several weeks ago, he said.
They were authorized to work in the US under a visa waiver, Kuck said. Each was pursuing activities consistent with the visa waiver program.
The clients, both engineers, came to the US to advise briefly on the work and were planning to return to South Korea shortly, according to Kuck.
OH WAIT ... reading further, do we perhaps see the REAL reason behind this raid? (is TSF really on the outs with Muskrat ... still ... or ever? or it was all a smokescreen? or doesn't matter because there are other beneficiaries in the mix?)
The raid halted construction of the EV battery plant, The Associated Press reported.
niyad
(126,762 posts)IcyPeas
(24,173 posts)Trump is an evil fuck.
Girard442
(6,755 posts)haele
(14,545 posts)She claims on her Facebook she did it for "Humanitarian Reasons", because a friend knows "a Union Guy" who works at the main factory who told that friend that Mexicans and Koreans and their families were being trafficked and living in slavery conditions at the new plant being built.
Yes, she's a good "Christian" blond lady who apparently is now putting up pics of her with an AR-15 to deal with all the haters upset she was trying to save all those "poor immigrants desperate to come to the US illegally looking for a better life..."
Especially engineers and lower level managers from South Korea?
leftstreet
(37,083 posts)orangecrush
(26,483 posts)niyad
(126,762 posts)orangecrush
(26,483 posts)Let Wall Street get the message.
niyad
(126,762 posts)orangecrush
(26,483 posts)Tetrachloride
(8,922 posts)if they knew ice was coming, where was the mint julep?
no nascar ?
how about a gun raffle?
kimchi makes fewer friends than a bbq
Martin68
(26,419 posts)70sEraVet
(4,841 posts)In Putin's war against Ukraine, he has become dependent on North Korean soldiers to fill the battlefields. To get those soldiers, he must give the North Korean leader something HE wants -- like a diplomatic disaster that erodes the alliance between South Korea and the US.
Putin gives orders to trump.
ICE is trump's personal army.
RandomNumbers
(18,864 posts)between that and it being an EV battery plant ... OF COURSE it was raided. (whether or not there wer rampant immigration violations ... I'm going with NOT.)