South Korea probes for human rights abuses in U.S. raid as Trump insists foreign workers 'welcome' [View all]

Source: NBC News

Sept. 15, 2025, 6:31 AM EDT


HONG KONG – South Korea said Monday that it would investigate whether its workers suffered any human rights violations during a raid by U.S. authorities, as President Donald Trump insisted that he did not want to "frighten off" foreign investment.

Foreign workers are "welcome" in America, Trump said on social media Sunday, after the emotional return of more than 300 workers to South Korea. But their detention following a raid by immigration authorities at a Hyundai plant in Georgia has stunned the key U.S. ally.

“I understand that the government is conducting a more thorough review with the companies to determine whether any human rights violations occurred,” presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said in a press briefing Monday, according to the Yonhap News Agency.

“The foreign ministry is looking at whether our demands were properly addressed, and the companies are also conducting their own reviews, to check whether any measures were insufficient on either the Korean side or U.S. side,” Kang said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/south-korea-human-rights-abuses-hyundai-raid-trump-foreign-workers-rcna231289

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They should take their ball and go home and make the state of GA confront the guy they chose to vote for in 2024. Like China, they "own the means of production" (not just their own cars but many of the electronics we use) and that was mostly due to the U.S.'s own greedy corporate overlords who off-shored for "cheap labor" to pad their bottom line.

Plus it should be a campaign highlight of Jon Ossoff who is up for reelection in 2026.