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IcyPeas

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Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:36 AM Sep 2025

Anger in Seoul as Trump calls detained South Korea workers 'illegal aliens' [View all]

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Foreign Minister Cho Hyun says he is ‘deeply concerned’ over detention of 300 South Koreans, while opposition calls it a ‘grave matter’.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has ordered all-out efforts to respond to the arrests of hundreds of the country’s citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor-LG car battery factory in the United States.

Thursday’s 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.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/6/anger-in-seoul-as-trump-calls-detained-south-korea-workers-illegal-aliens
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One question in all of this should be - what are they paying the workers. everyonematters Sep 2025 #1
So he's managed to piss off both North AND South Korea's leadership in one week. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #2
So, the foreign minister is... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #3
We don't know whether they have been working illegally. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #5
See my post #4 .... and you should know .... RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #6
Trump is an ass ... but here is some USEFUL information about the raid RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #4
And there we have it! niyad Sep 2025 #7
Just read yesterday that musk will soon be the first trillionaire IcyPeas Sep 2025 #8
Welcome to life under a dictator. Girard442 Sep 2025 #11
Krasnov wants to shut down every green energy project Martin Eden Sep 2025 #22
+1 dalton99a Sep 2025 #24
Tori Branam, running for a Congressional seat in GA, claims she called ICE on the plant haele Sep 2025 #9
This all seems very fishy n/t leftstreet Sep 2025 #12
+1 dalton99a Sep 2025 #28
CLOSE THE FUCKING PLANT orangecrush Sep 2025 #10
why? niyad Sep 2025 #17
Because it's not safe for other countries to run businesses here anymore. orangecrush Sep 2025 #19
Understood, and thank you for explaining. niyad Sep 2025 #20
Most welcome. orangecrush Sep 2025 #21
the devil went down to georgia Tetrachloride Sep 2025 #13
This could prove interesting. Trump is a bull in a China shop. Martin68 Sep 2025 #14
Forget for a minute about the legal/illegal status of South Korean workers.... 70sEraVet Sep 2025 #15
Excellent point ... RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #16
Why does that not even surprise me? niyad Sep 2025 #18
K&R UTUSN Sep 2025 #23
In the face of this raid EndlessWire Sep 2025 #25
Trump breaking up the international democracy alliance for Putin and Xi. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #26
+1. Putin chose well. dalton99a Sep 2025 #27
The overlooked part of the story here is that Hyundai did not think they could find Prairie Gates Sep 2025 #29
"the wages they wanted were too high" - how high were they? RandomNumbers Sep 2025 #30
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