ICE fires first shot.

[hal2kilo]

funniest part is that Hyundai had just pledged something like 26 billion in US investments last week....

So sucking up doesn't always work. I'm shocked.

 

[Heartbreaker]

just fucking amazing...really...

~On the 5th, the local Korean news channel 'Atlanta Korean News Portal' reported that "the raid on the federal immigration office appeared to have been triggered by persistent tips from far-right Trump supporters," and that Tory Brainam, a candidate for the 12th Georgia Congressional District, had identified herself as the informant. Brainam, a former US Marine who has declared her support for Trump, is known for her far-right conservative leanings.

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Republican Candidate Takes Credit for Trump Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant

Tori Branum, who’s running for Congress in Georgia, says she tipped off the Trump administration and feels “good” about it

ca.news.yahoo.com

Checks out. You report people you have a beef with to the Gestapo, to rise up the party ranks.

 

[nickqt]

Checks out. You report people you have a beef with to the Gestapo, to rise up the party ranks.

Using the gestapo to take out the gestapo is, as always, a legitimate tactic.

 

[marees]

ICE shuts down a Hyundai location(one of the biggest employers in Georgia):

South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia

Most of the 475 arrested were from South Korea, leading the country to express concern about the rights of those in custody.

www.bbc.com

'America, Fuck Ya, Gotta keep these immigrants from building factories and bringing Jobs to the USA...

Reaction from south Korea

https://twitter.com/x/status/1964894961226383594

 

[marees]

Reaction from south Korea

https://twitter.com/x/status/1964894961226383594

Grok comment — based on my prompt

• Cultural psychology research, such as a 2018 study in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, indicates East Asian societies are "shame-driven" rather than "guilt-driven" like Western ones, explaining why the public chaining of workers—captured and released by ICE—resonates as a national humiliation beyond mere legal disputes.
• The visa bottleneck for Koreans, despite their role in constructing the Hyundai-LG plant, contrasts with visa privileges for countries like Australia, suggesting potential U.S. policy inconsistencies that could strain the ROK-U.S. alliance, especially given the $150 billion investment pledged post-Trump-Lee summit.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/qgfaNc95Vd9Fz7PlSosx7yzCV

 

[marees]

"after this happened, many companies will think again about investing in the United States because setting up a new project might take so much longer than before," he said, adding that many of those who were detained were specialists and finding local workers to replace them would not be easy.

time and administrative hurdles involved in obtaining US visas had encouraged foreign companies to cut corners in order to finish projects on time, but they might now need to reassess.

South Korean worker tells BBC of panic and confusion during Hyundai raid

Some 400 US agents took part in the immigration raid on the Hyundai facility, detaining hundreds of workers, many South Korean nationals.

www.bbc.com

 

[DZero]

Damn... this happens when gives ICE enough power. Is like giving guns to monkeys...

 

[pauldun170]

Back in my day... you'd just walk in from the street to any classroom. No locks. Doors might even be open on a warm day.
I do remember when they added chain link around the local schools.

So... uhh... when did they turn schools into a fortress with security guards that can turn away officers / federal agents?
Cause... damn, if that isn't a statement. Maybe it's a midwest / big city thing....

So. WTF is ICE doing targeting elementary kids?

As mentioned, kids bringing guns to school and gifting bullets to classmates started the trend as way to change the topic away from gun laws.

Over time, it transitioned to a cash cow as schools got security funding and retired police officers can now score a second pension as school security.

It remains in place today because ot provides a way for school administrators to prevent crazy parents from wandering the schools looking to find out why there kid is being forced tomdo homework that involves critical thinking instead of focusing on important things like football.

 

[pauldun170]

Remember.
Race and ethnicity cannot be used as a factor in education or highlighted in musuems, libraries or random pieces of paper found on the street but it can be used as a factor rubbing an anus on the forth amendment.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/supreme-court-ice-raids-ruling-00550551

 

[pauldun170]

Valid visa holder mandated to leave anyway

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa

Exclusive: critics accuse Ice of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

www.theguardian.com

Another good article

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

 

[Brainonska511]

Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US

www.theguardian.com

An in-depth article on how the Trump Administration is sending people into legal limbo. Just a sick game of three-card-monty with immigrants to try to stay one step ahead of their lawyers by constantly altering the federal district they are in.

 

[brycejones]

Valid visa holder mandated to leave anyway

Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa

Exclusive: critics accuse Ice of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

www.theguardian.com

Clearly this can’t be accurate we have it on good authority from Brovane they were all illegals.

 

[K1052]

Fully legal immigrant from Northern Ireland detained for "looking like a Mexican" wherein he witnesses somebody die likely as a result of neglect.

https://bsky.app/profile/belfasttelegraph.co.uk%2Fpost%2F3lyhpgivy7227

 

[pauldun170]

Fully legal immigrant from Northern Ireland detained for "looking like a Mexican" wherein he witnesses somebody die likely as a result of neglect.

https://bsky.app/profile/belfasttelegraph.co.uk%2Fpost%2F3lyhpgivy7227

Read the story

POPULAR KEY WEST HAIRSTYLIST DETAINED BY ICE ON JUNE 12

Two weeks ago, Lee Stinton was a popular Key West hairdresser with a job, a partner of four years, a dog named Ernest Heminggay, an employment authorization from the federal government and a green card application moving through the immigration process. Today, Stinton is an Irish immigrant...

keysweekly.com

 

[Heartbreaker]

Clearly this can’t be accurate we have it on good authority from Brovane they were all illegals.

AFAIK, they all held visas. But many were some kind of business visas that prohibited them from working for money while in the country (WTF ??) because the administration wouldn't give the proper visas to set up their multibillion dollar factory...

Without the properly trained workers it's pretty damn hard to build a state of the art battery factory.

Look at Northvolt, billions spent and even with teams of Chinese experts they couldn't get their battery factory running correctly.

 

[Brainonska511]

The Judicial Learning Curve

District court judges watch each other struggle with the Trump administration—and adapt.

www.lawfaremedia.org

A story of how the administration is trying to illegally traffic children.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Whenever this regime falls ICE needs to be eliminated on Day 1.

 

[UNCjigga]

Read the story

POPULAR KEY WEST HAIRSTYLIST DETAINED BY ICE ON JUNE 12

Two weeks ago, Lee Stinton was a popular Key West hairdresser with a job, a partner of four years, a dog named Ernest Heminggay, an employment authorization from the federal government and a green card application moving through the immigration process. Today, Stinton is an Irish immigrant...

keysweekly.com

There have been way too many examples of even white tourists and immigrants with legal status being swept up in raids with one common characteristic—all are LGBTQ and had outward indications of their LGBTQ status.

 

[Heartbreaker]

ICE shuts down a Hyundai location(one of the biggest employers in Georgia):

South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia

Most of the 475 arrested were from South Korea, leading the country to express concern about the rights of those in custody.

www.bbc.com

'America, Fuck Ya, Gotta keep these immigrants from building factories and bringing Jobs to the USA...

Followup: Mad King flip-flop decides he wants Koreans he had chained up, to stay:

After ICE Raid, Trump Now Wants Korean Workers to Stay in U.S.

The U.S. may even create a new visa category for Korean workers so foreign investment isn’t disrupted.

time.com

“That led to a halt in the departure process, in order to first hear Korea’s position on whether the detained nationals, all of whom are skilled workers, want to return home or stay in the U.S. to continue working and help train American personnel,” the official said, adding that the detainees—who had been restrained in handcuffs and ankle chains at their arrest, according to footage released by the U.S. authorities—were “extremely shocked and exhausted” and should return home first but could return to the U.S. at a later date.

Kuck earlier told the Associated Press that many of the workers “were either there as engineers or were involved in after-sales service and installation.” Under State Department guidelines, B-1 visa holders may be used “to install, service, or repair commercial or industrial equipment or machinery purchased from a company outside the United States or to train U.S. workers to perform such services” if it is spelled out in their contract.

“The vast majority of folks,” Kuck told Reuters, “including the ones I represent, should never have been detained.”

 

[Brainonska511]

Followup: Mad King flip-flop decides he wants Koreans he had chained up, to stay:

After ICE Raid, Trump Now Wants Korean Workers to Stay in U.S.

The U.S. may even create a new visa category for Korean workers so foreign investment isn’t disrupted.

time.com

Creating diplomatic incidents because they're morons.

 

[esquared]

Creating diplomatic incidents because they're morons.

The clown shoes are getting bigger all the time.

 

[esquared]

This ice raid of South Korean workers may very well come back to bite the syphilitic orange menace on his fat ass.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/south-korea-lee-warns-us-030602980.html

"
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said a US immigration raid that led to the detention of more than 300 Korean workers has unsettled companies pouring billions into America.

“They simply needed skilled technicians to install the equipment to build the plant because there aren’t workers available in the US,” Lee said on Thursday, speaking at a press conference in Seoul to mark his 100th day in office. “This could have a significant impact on future direct investment into the US.”

"Lee said the workers were dispatched on short-term stays to install equipment and got caught up in the raid amid repeated difficulties obtaining visas. He added that the raid had left him “baffled.”

 

[marees]

This ice raid of South Korean workers may very well come back to bite the syphilitic orange menace on his fat ass.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/south-korea-lee-warns-us-030602980.html

"
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said a US immigration raid that led to the detention of more than 300 Korean workers has unsettled companies pouring billions into America.

“They simply needed skilled technicians to install the equipment to build the plant because there aren’t workers available in the US,” Lee said on Thursday, speaking at a press conference in Seoul to mark his 100th day in office. “This could have a significant impact on future direct investment into the US.”

"Lee said the workers were dispatched on short-term stays to install equipment and got caught up in the raid amid repeated difficulties obtaining visas. He added that the raid had left him “baffled.”

The bigger issue to me is what message it sends out to TSMC Arizona plant, probably the biggest leading edge tech investment in US so far

 

[marees]

Asked if the trade deal was now in jeopardy, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on CNBC: "Well, the Koreans didn't sign. ... The Koreans either accept that deal or pay the tariffs. Black and white."

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/trump-offered-let-detained-korean-workers-stay-us-almost-all-heading-home-2025-09-11/

 

[marees]

President Donald Trump's tougher immigration policy has created new challenges for LG Energy Solution and its domestic peers, Samsung SDI and SK On, as they follow through on their billions of dollars of investment pledges made under the previous Biden administration.

They are also bracing for weakening demand for electric vehicles in the U.S., as a $7,500 federal tax credit for EVs, introduced by the Biden administration, is set to expire at the end of the month

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/south-koreans-head-home-more-lges-us-battery-sites-after-raid-sources-say-2025-09-10/