Legal workers got caught up in ICE's biggest raid. Korean Americans haven't forgotten.
Source: USA Today
Nov. 8, 2025, 6:01 a.m. ET
POOLER, Georgia Daniel Lee's fried chicken, with its spicey-sweet glaze, regularly drew hungry Korean workers from a nearby Hyundai plant into his restaurant, 92 Chicken. That was, until a massive immigration raid at the battery plant two months ago left Lee stunned and his business reeling.
Federal agents handcuffed, chained and detained more than 300 Korean workers in an operation President Donald Trump later said he fully opposed. The workers were flown home after a few days in immigration detention, but the effects of the raid continue to ripple out from the tables at Lee's restaurant, to Hyundai headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, to Trump's White House.
The high-profile raid of a major global Fortune 500 company that had been aggressively recruited to Georgia infuriated many Korean Americans. According to Pew Research, some 1.8 million people in the United States trace their roots to South Korea, a nation that had long thought of itself as America's equal.
And it raised existential questions for Lee's business and for Korean Americans nationwide who didn't imagine that people here lawfully would be targeted by ICE, or that the Trump administration would pick a fight with a country that had invested billions in the U.S. economy.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/11/08/korean-americans-foreigners-biggest-ice-raid-hyundai/86950317007/
The sooner they learn about the racism of the white supremacist, the better.
SunSeeker
(57,262 posts)ChicagoTeamster
(172 posts)Did she think they would just spend money and ship the materials and American workers would just walk in and run everything? High tech manufacturing jobs require training.
BurnDoubt
(1,244 posts)rpannier
(24,814 posts)will get a clue.
Cha
(315,831 posts)irisblue
(36,557 posts)The Koreans said...f that guy
South Korea to send a plane for workers detained in US
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/9/south-korea-to-send-plane-for-workers-detained-in-us-immigration-raid#:~:text=%E2%80%9CKorean%20Air%20is%20planning%20to,for%20those%20subject%20to%20deportation.
NBachers
(19,038 posts)Hekate
(100,129 posts)has something tender of yours in a vise, what do you think the plan is?
Igel
(37,207 posts)Kuck features prominently in both that one and one that's a bit less unclear:
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/10/south-korea-work-visa-immigration-raid-hyundai-ICE/
BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)that were near that facility and supported those workers (restaurants, food trucks, etc) have now lost business.
You have seen similar in states like California, where the mass raids have chilled or even killed the smaller "service" businesses near where the raids occurred, and those owners/vendors/proprietors are getting slammed due to a loss of foot traffic.
Cirsium
(3,145 posts)This is completely unacceptable under any circumstances. Prisoners of war are not treated this way. Stray dogs are not treated this way.
This must be stopped, whatever it takes.
DFW
(59,363 posts)I would have announced the closing of the Georgia operation, and announced its moving to Illinois, with the corporation picking up the tab for moving their workers into affordable housing. Maybe intervention by Democratic Senators Warnock and Ossoff of Georgia could stave off the move for a year, contingent on Ossoffs re-election (we can work with him).
I would not let the Trumpanzee Administration get a free ride with this one.
BlueWavePsych
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louis-t
(24,530 posts)Miller and his goons worship this piece of trash.