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3. She cost 9,000 Georgians their jobs at that plant. Construction has halted.

Reply to tonekat (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:13 PM

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These workers were needed to set up the plant and to train local workers. But all she saw were Asians, not skilled workers.

When Trump saw what a debacle this was, he offered to let the workers stay and train US workers, delaying their release to get South Korea to agree. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/11/trump-south-korea-hyundai-raid-visas/
This just pissed off but the South Koreans even more. They refused, and insisted on the immediate repatriation of their countrymen. All of South Korea is outraged at the pictures they saw of their countrymen in chains, treated like criminals by ICE.

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South Korean workers detained in immigration raid leave Atlanta and head home [View all] Omaha Steve Thursday OP

They did not want to trust any airline but their own. And rightly so. LiberalArkie Thursday #1

Did you see the cause of the raid? tonekat Thursday #2

She cost 9,000 Georgians their jobs at that plant. Construction has halted. SunSeeker Thursday #3

Why aren't they being sent to some far-off unrelated country? Like the fruit pickers from Central America? mpcamb Thursday #4