https://www.nbcnews.com/world/south-korea/south-korea-immigration-raid-hyundai-georgia-efforts-rcna229509South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia, as the key American ally and trading partner reeled from the news.Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.At an emergency government meeting Saturday, South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”His foreign ministry told NBC News that the government had set up a response team and that he was prepared to travel to Washington to meet officials if needed, while Cho reiterated earlier remarks made by Lee that the rights of South Koreans “must be not unjustly infringed.”
The raid, part of the Trump administration’s escalating crackdown on migrants, was the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the Department of Homeland Security.A sea of agents from HSI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies showed up Thursday to the site in the town of Ellabell where Hyundai and LG Energy Solution are jointly building a battery plant next to their manufacturing facility for electric vehicles.LG Energy Solution said Saturday that 47 of its employees were detained, 46 of them Korean. Another 250 personnel from “equipment partner companies,” most of them Korean, were also being held, it added.“We are making every possible effort on all fronts for the prompt release of our personnel and partner company staff who have been detained,” the company said, adding that it had suspended employees’ business travel to the U.S. and urged those already there to “return home or remain at their accommodations.”Hyundai said none of those detained were directly employed by the firm.Charles Kuck, an Atlanta-based immigration attorney representing two of the detained South Korean nationals, told NBC News on Friday that his clients were in the U.S. on the Visa Waiver Program which permits tourism or business stays of up to 90 days.
“I’m convinced neither of these guys are violating their status in any way,” Kuck said, adding that both of his clients are process engineers who came over for meetings related to the construction of the new plant.No criminal charges in connection to the investigation had been filed as of Friday.The incident threatens to strain ties with South Korea, the world’s 10th-largest economy.The raid came just 11 days after a summit between Trump and Lee at the White House, where South Korean firms pledged $150 billion in U.S. investments. In July, Seoul pledged another $350 billion in U.S. projects in an effort to reduce Trump’s threatened tariffs, which he later set at 15%.Jang Dong-hyuk, leader of the opposition People Power Party, warned in a Facebook post Saturday that the raid “could lead to wider repercussions for South Korean businesses and communities throughout the U.S.”“This incident goes beyond a simple crackdown on undocumented immigrants and is a very serious matter,” he said, urging the government to safeguard “overseas Koreans and the rights of our businesspeople.”“At a time when numerous South Korean companies are building factories and expanding investments across the U.S., repeated mass arrests of workers will inevitably escalate into a national-level risk,” he added.
A party spokesperson called the raid a “diplomatic disaster” and asked whether South Korea had been “slapped in the face after making huge investments.”South Korea’s largest daily, Chosun Ilbo, struck a similar tone, framing the arrests as a betrayal and a harsh blow to South Korea.“After Investing in ‘Trump MAGA,’ What Came Back Was the Arrest of 300 Koreans,” the headline read.White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told NBC News on Friday that President Donald Trump remains committed “to make the United States the best place in the world to do business, while also enforcing federal immigration laws.”
Inb4 none of them were illegal and the plant construction falls through in retaliation.
>>1432441Trump really doesn't come out of this good. Either >a. they were illegal and that big plant he was celebrating turned out to have massive chunk of its workers turned out to not be americans like he was bragging about >b. they aren't illegal, and ICE just stupidly started an international incident for nothing because obviously they're gonna be coming back to SK with horror stories and the whole nation is gonna be pissed at the US, potentially leading to the same plant closing
>trickle-down economicshttps://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trickledowntheory.asp'Presidents Hoover, Reagan, and Trump have all employed methods of trickle-down economic policies'>Reagan>the president so beloved of the GOPYou know what else Reagan was all for, along with trickle-down economics, MAGAts? Free TradeFrankly, ol' Ronnie Raygun's looking far more credible. And he's dead. The last decent Republican president was Dwight D. Eisenhower.
>>1432449>Trump really doesn't come out of this goodIt's fine. Red hats won't read follow up stories and right wing news won't write them.
Hehehehehe, Kuck...
>>1432449>>1432441Apparently they were actually illegal and it wasn't the plant that hired them.The employer was a subcontractor that worked on batteries or something and the article I had read stated the doj was launching a criminal investigation against the subcontractor and were trying to locate the owner
>>1432474>no source>DUDE I READ IT TRUST MENice try MAGAt ESL shill, that shit may fly on /pol/ but here on /news/ we're too smart to fall for that
>>1432474>>1432476Right now there's a mix of sources saying both. I imagine the final result will be SOME of them were illegal, but there were also korean nationals there legally on business. Even so, terrible look for the US that you can't even come in to do the business the president literally celebrated and bragged about without ICE potentially jumping you and sending you to a camp.
>>1432494It's made worse by the trade agreement Trump just signed with the SK President to have his country invest billions in the US only to have him still tariff them at 15% and then this shit happens.
>>1432495Honestly depending on how ICE treats these guys (likely horribly considering their track record) I imagine this could blow the entire deal. South Korean population is NOT going to be happy when people come back with stories of them being crammed into camps (likely to bring back some VERY bad cultural memories) and treated like shit, and even more so if they were there legally.
>>1432476>Here on /news/ we're too smart Fuckin Kek. You sure are buddy, you'll get that gold star at the end of semester for sure
>>1432504Go sit in the corner dunce
>>1432501No, Trump knows SK is America's bitch, so he's going to hassle them because he'll get political points locally and knows SK is (forcefully) aligned with the U.S. on everything, despite being at odds with its neighbors. It's the same move that Trump is playing with India, but at least they are trying to have better relations with their neighbors. SK, OTOH, has no choice but to bootlick the U.S. at the moment.
>>1432517>trump being a faggot is actually 9d chesshe's a diaper shitting dementia patient and your shilling can't change that unfortunately
>>1432517Is this supposed to be bait?
>>1432523No, Trump is just taking advantage of the situation. He knows SK can't do anything about this because of their political alignments. He did the same thing with the EU. He gets a kick out of this.
>>1432517Didn't the India one fuck up horrifically and result in them aligning themselves with China and Russia against the US? All because Trump wanted them to give him credit for a ceasefire he did nothing for?
>>1432538>He knows SK can't do anything about thisOther than closing the plant.
>>1432540by all reports he's afraid that he won't get into heaven when he dies, and he's willing to do anything except help Americans to do it
>>1432543>and he's willing to do anything except help AmericansIncluding his own cultists paying $15 for the privilege of not being helped by their orange god >>1431839That's the double irony
>>1432426Apparently the warrant ICE had justified their actions by saying that there were four men at the factory with hispanic names. Fucking Christ, literal nazi behaviour.
>>1432540Yes. Trump placed tariffs on India and tried to embarrass them diplomatically because they don't have good relations with any of its neighbors. But India is trying to patch up relations with China now, which is not what the U.S. wants. OTOH, SK is aligned with the U.S. on most issues, so they have no choice but to put up with Trump in the short term.
>>1432661>tried to embarrass them diplomatically because they don't have good relations with any of its neighborsNaah it was because they openly defied the Russia sanctions every other county agreed to and started importing their oil again.
>>1432538How is destroying all the goodwill America had built up in the last 50 years "taking advantage" of anything?
>>1432669>goodwillYeah all those years of shittalking America were totally jokes
>>1432675What are you even talking about? Can you find five examples?
South Korea chartered a plane to fly the SK nationals home.https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/us/south-korean-detainees-negotiations-release-hnk
US and another country in the Far East>a year after a Republican president resigned because of a scandal, certainly whilst embroiled in a war that did his administration's image no good whatsoever, one last US helicopter took off from a US embassy, thus ending that country's political presence there>nearly half a century later, a US Embassy in that same country, with full diplomatic relations & trade. even US veterans of that war can visit that country with no ill will from the localsA certain US company - bigger than Muskrat's Tesla - invests heavily in that country, which welcomes that member of the Trillion Dollar Company Club: and before 20th January 2025, least of all the policy fuckups by that adminifrustration including retarded 'tariffs'. That US company? NVidia.I'm sure your gaming cultists will love having to pay even more for their imported RTX 5090s that those elsewhere will pay less for, Trumpy. Your loss, Vietnam's gain, certainly the rest of the world's. And there's nothing you can do to stop NVidia investing more there.
>>1432426Why does every other nation on then planet cry out that their laws must be respected but believe that their people can go to America, break every law under the sun, and think that that's not only acceptable but is right?
>>1432845why are you pretending to be american
>>1432845We don't even know for sure if most of them were even there illegally. Also, countries don't like their citizens being treated like animals, crimes or not but ESPECIALLY when all they did was a misdemeanor.
>>1432845>being this buttmad over a misdemeanor
>>1432859>>1432873I reckon Trump and >>1432845 are big fans of Johnny Somali, and are lashing out at South Korea because he refused to live in a society, certainly one as - and rightly so - ultra-conformist as SK and their police & legal system are, thus he's getting what he fucking deserves.Trump refuses to live in a civilized world or he wouldn't be the Johnny Somali-esque shit-stirrer he is, so he's getting what he fucking deserves from Japan, China & South Korea.Conformity. Sanity. Civility. They're so underrated. Can't wait for 2028: Make Politics Boring Again.
>>1432879Less than 0.01% of the population knows who that is.
>>1432916>what is the internet>what is YouTube>what is Xitter>what are all forms of social media>Johnny Somali vids going viral>an entry on him in Wikipedia>thus >>1432916's brain is 0.01% human size for not knowing about Johnny Somali, when more people do
>>1432929He's right you know
>>1432967>>1432916 doesn't know, so he's wrong
>>1432473Glad someone else noticed
It turns out the whistleblower is a failed MAGA critter who got BTFO at the Republicunt primary and wanted to hurt her state in retaliation. https://www.ceomagazine.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=34069
>>1433011>loses primary>decides to get even by putting 40k jobs at riskIf the plant closes because of the fallout from this she's gonna have to skip states lmao
>>1432426>>1432427>>1432429>>1432432https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lisbon-funicular-crash-victims-nationalities-emerge-portugal-streetcar-disaster/>Lisbon — Two days after Portugal's worst-ever electric streetcar crash killed 16 people and left more than 20 others from across the globe injured, authorities in Lisbon said Friday that they had identified nearly all of the victims, many of whom were crushed to death when the famed Elevador da Gloria funicular hurtled out of control down a steep hill, derailed and careened into a building.>While names have not yet been disclosed, Portugal's national police said Friday that five Portuguese nationals, three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians, a French woman, one Swiss national, one American and one Ukrainian were killed in the Wednesday crash.
>>1432758Nvidia are jews who would raise prices no matter what cause they have a monopoly on the high end gaming GPU market, and they're making more cash on AI data centers. They don't need politics to be greedy price gougers.Tariffs don't help though.
>>1433203>NVidia>jewsChris Malachowsky'The surname Malachowsky is a variant of the Polish surname Małachowski, meaning someone from a place named Małachowo, Małachów, or Małachowice, or derived from the Slavic word "malach" (angel/messenger) or "malach" (young/youthful) combined with the "-owski" suffix, which denotes connection to a place or lineage'>slavicCurtis Priem'The name Priem originated in Germanic and Dutch regions, likely as a metonymic occupational surname for a shoemaker or someone working with tools like an awl (from Middle Dutch priem(e) and Middle Low German prēme), or as a habitational name from places named Priemen'>Dutch/GermanJen-Hsun Huang: TaiwanSo either Cantonese Chinese are one of the '12 Lost Tribes' or you're a retard.id Software created that which started the whole graphics card arms war, Quake. Resulting in the RTX 5090 best suited for running id Tech 8 used in DOOM: The Dark Ages decades later....oh, and tell that to those in countries which have free trade with everywhere else, thus don't pay more for GPUs. It was the actual god of modern Republicanism Reagan which started the whole 'Trickle Down' thing that an orange god with hair of clay today just ripped off. But ol' Ronnie was all for one thing ol' Trumpy's scared shitless of: Free Trade.And because of that, nobody outside US thinks NVidia are 'jews' so what's your excuse? They don't need an excuse for investing in Vietnam. Reagan would be all for that, so Trumpy never had the right to any excuses for his wrong opinions in the first place.
>>1432929Well if you know so goddamn much how about you explain it to the class?
oh no, 1433237 is humiliated due to not knowing about something that more people do
