Georgia Hyundai Plant ICE Raid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was reported that ICE showed up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.?

The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals.

Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

MAGA!

When the going gets going, Asians are Hispanics to MAGA. Same sentiment that made the Japanese internment possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was reported that ICE showed up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.?

The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals.

Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

MAGA!

When the going gets going, Asians are Hispanics to MAGA. Same sentiment that made the Japanese internment possible.

I have said repeatedly that MAGA will treat Asians like Hispanics. First they came for the Hispanics, next, they will come for Asians.

Asian Americans who support MAGA are idiots. They will FAFO.

-Asian American, former R. Can't stand the current R party

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/09/16/stephen-millers-quota-likely-drove-korean-arrests-in-immigration-raid/

According to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller.

So basically the GOP has cost the US billions in investment and tens of thousands of jobs. Way to go.

I was just about to post that - quotas aren't made by nabbing a couple of grub hub delivery drivers off the streets of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was reported that ICE showed up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.?

The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals.

Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

MAGA!

When the going gets going, Asians are Hispanics to MAGA. Same sentiment that made the Japanese internment possible.

I have said repeatedly that MAGA will treat Asians like Hispanics. First they came for the Hispanics, next, they will come for Asians.

Asian Americans who support MAGA are idiots. They will FAFO.

-Asian American, former R. Can't stand the current R party

And the will go after the Jews. The antisemitism in the right is only barely be contained by Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/09/16/stephen-millers-quota-likely-drove-korean-arrests-in-immigration-raid/

According to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller.

So basically the GOP has cost the US billions in investment and tens of thousands of jobs. Way to go.

I was just about to post that - quotas aren't made by nabbing a couple of grub hub delivery drivers off the streets of DC.

There were 100-200 of people taken in the raid. We have not heard anything about them. GEO has paid every almost every senior Trump official. These are direct payments for consulting work.

[Anonymous]

So the one South Korean who said he would voluntarily stayed in the US is still being held by ICE in prison!

I guess he is a hostage now.

[Anonymous]

https://www.wtoc.com/2025/09/18/lone-south-korean-worker-that-stayed-us-following-hyundai-megasite-raid-still-ice-detention/

“ BRYAN COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - The only South Korean worker that opted to stay in the United States following the raid of the Hyundai megasite is still in ICE detention, an immigration attorney has confirmed to WTOC.

475 people were detained in the ICE raid two weeks ago. Around 300 of those detained were South Korean nationals, here to perform proprietary work at the HL-GA Battery Company that couldn’t have been done by anyone else.”

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of idiots.

[Anonymous]

And they’re back. So much for the "Hyundai will pull out" threats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And they’re back. So much for the "Hyundai will pull out" threats.

?

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna234860

Hyundai may want to come back, but good luck to them finding anyone who will go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna234860

Hyundai may want to come back, but good luck to them finding anyone who will go.

Then maybe they will actually hire Americans. I hate Trump but I can't believe everyone is buying all 400 workers were in fact so specialized that no American could do the job. The actual visa the Koreans were on has not been revealed. The New York Times interviewed one worker, "Nate Cho, an HVAC guru," who also worked at a Samsung semiconductor factory in Texas.

I am not sure what an HVAC guru is or how that differs from a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning regular worker but an earlier article in the NYT explains that local unions for a while have been complaining about American not getting hired and blue collar workers from Korea getting hired instead to do manual labor.

Barry Zeigler, business manager of Local 188, a union that represents plumbers, pipe fitters, welders and HVAC service technicians for 15 counties in Georgia, said South Koreans were working as welders and pipe fitters in the Georgia plant — jobs that he said should have been given to Americans. He said he had visited the plant in the past, adding that about 65 members of his union were hired by subcontractors to lay pipes there, but were let go a few months ago.

“People think the Koreans are here to do a special job; that’s BS,” he said, adding that politicians had turned a deaf ear to his complaints about the factory until the raid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was reported that ICE showed up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.?

The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals.

Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

MAGA!

When the going gets going, Asians are Hispanics to MAGA. Same sentiment that made the Japanese internment possible.

I have said repeatedly that MAGA will treat Asians like Hispanics. First they came for the Hispanics, next, they will come for Asians.

Asian Americans who support MAGA are idiots. They will FAFO.

-Asian American, former R. Can't stand the current R party

And the will go after the Jews. The antisemitism in the right is only barely be contained by Trump.

And we know that will only extend to his grandchildren.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna234860

Hyundai may want to come back, but good luck to them finding anyone who will go.

Then maybe they will actually hire Americans. I hate Trump but I can't believe everyone is buying all 400 workers were in fact so specialized that no American could do the job. The actual visa the Koreans were on has not been revealed. The New York Times interviewed one worker, "Nate Cho, an HVAC guru," who also worked at a Samsung semiconductor factory in Texas.

I am not sure what an HVAC guru is or how that differs from a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning regular worker but an earlier article in the NYT explains that local unions for a while have been complaining about American not getting hired and blue collar workers from Korea getting hired instead to do manual labor.

Barry Zeigler, business manager of Local 188, a union that represents plumbers, pipe fitters, welders and HVAC service technicians for 15 counties in Georgia, said South Koreans were working as welders and pipe fitters in the Georgia plant — jobs that he said should have been given to Americans. He said he had visited the plant in the past, adding that about 65 members of his union were hired by subcontractors to lay pipes there, but were let go a few months ago.

“People think the Koreans are here to do a special job; that’s BS,” he said, adding that politicians had turned a deaf ear to his complaints about the factory until the raid.

Hyundai probably got fed up with sloppy, lazy work from American contractors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna234860

Hyundai may want to come back, but good luck to them finding anyone who will go.

Then maybe they will actually hire Americans. I hate Trump but I can't believe everyone is buying all 400 workers were in fact so specialized that no American could do the job. The actual visa the Koreans were on has not been revealed. The New York Times interviewed one worker, "Nate Cho, an HVAC guru," who also worked at a Samsung semiconductor factory in Texas.

I am not sure what an HVAC guru is or how that differs from a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning regular worker but an earlier article in the NYT explains that local unions for a while have been complaining about American not getting hired and blue collar workers from Korea getting hired instead to do manual labor.

Barry Zeigler, business manager of Local 188, a union that represents plumbers, pipe fitters, welders and HVAC service technicians for 15 counties in Georgia, said South Koreans were working as welders and pipe fitters in the Georgia plant — jobs that he said should have been given to Americans. He said he had visited the plant in the past, adding that about 65 members of his union were hired by subcontractors to lay pipes there, but were let go a few months ago.

“People think the Koreans are here to do a special job; that’s BS,” he said, adding that politicians had turned a deaf ear to his complaints about the factory until the raid.

Go away MAGA. These were highly trained engineers. They were doing things no maga idiot like yourself could even imagine. The raid was a total f up by you people.