‘America is not a safe place to work’: South Koreans rounded up in last month's Georgia immigration raid describe the operation that has deeply unsettled one of the United States' top Asian allies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/24/asia-pacific/us-unsafe-koreans-georgia-raid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southkorea #hyundai #lg #us #donaldtrump #trade #immigration #ice #republicans
So if you consume a lot of political news, you might know that one of the 300+ Korean workers dragged away in chains by #ICE from a #Hyundai battery plant in Georgia was a pregnant engineer. I just heard her speak to the media about conditions in detention and how terrified she was that something might have gone wrong with her baby under the extreme stress (thankfully, a checkup back in #Korea confirmed the fetus is doing fine). She's resolute and angry, and wants to sue the "land of the lawsuit" in her words. I wish her every luck and would like to congratulate the Trump admin for thoroughly burning bridges with Korea--there isn't a Korean, other than a tiny minority of contemptible lickspittles, who will be unmoved by her story, to say nothing of the deluge of literally hundreds of stories that will follow.
Like, President Lee Jae-myeong enjoys an approval rating of over 60% right now, but sign the kind of deal the U.S. is demanding right now and he'll lose at least half his ratings and his own majority party in the National Assembly will fucking impeach him. Not that he'll do it because he didn't win the Presidency by being a fool, but that's the national mood and I don't see it turning forgiving anytime soon.
A battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor is facing a minimum startup delay of two to three months following an immigration raid last week, Hyundai CEO Jose Munoz has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/12/companies/hyundai-battery-plant-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #hyundai #us #southkorea
An exodus of South Korean workers from LG Energy Solution's U.S. production sites is taking place because of visa concerns following last week's immigration raid on its joint facility with Hyundai Motor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/11/companies/south-korean-workers-leave-us-raid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #southkorea #ussouthkorearelations #jobs #hyundai #lg #immigration
Many of the nearly 500 arrested at a Hyundai facility in Georgia appeared to be working legally, a U.S. immigration lawyer representing more than a dozen workers picked up said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal/hyundai-immigrants-us-lawyer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #ussouthkorearelations #immigration #us #southkorea #jobs #hyundai
The White House says it wants foreign investment in manufacturing. This is an odd way of showing it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/10/world/hyundai-ice-raid-makes-no-sense/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #hyundai #lg #us #donaldtrump #immigration #ice
Many South Korean workers were sent to the U.S. on questionable documents despite their misgivings and warnings about stricter U.S. immigration enforcement before a raid on a Hyundai site. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/09/companies/hyundai-us-visa-raid-warning/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #us #southkorea #ussouthkorearelations #immigration #hyundai
Three Japanese nationals were among the 475 people detained during a raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the construction site of a Hyundai Motor plant in the U.S. state of Georgia, it has been learned. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/japan/three-japanese-raid-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hyundai #carmakers #us #southkorea #immigration #donaldtrump #georgia
The detention of hundreds of South Koreans in U.S. immigration raid sent shock waves through Seoul and plunged Lee Jae Myung into the biggest diplomatic challenge of his young presidency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/09/asia-pacific/politics/shackled-workers-south-korea-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #southkorea #immigration #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #hyundai #lg#leejaemyung #ice
Kevin Carson
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Read this thread, it's ... a lot.
But basically that big ICE humiliation raid in Georgia appears to have cost the US the entire project. 8000+ long-term jobs gone. And more.
Read this thread, it's ... a lot.
But basically that big ICE humiliation raid in Georgia appears to have cost the US the entire project. 8000+ long-term jobs gone. And more.
An immigration raid on a U.S. plant run by South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less than two weeks after a White House summit between their presidents. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/08/companies/us-migrant-raid-south-korea-investor/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #southkorea #immigration #us #donaldtrump #hyundai #lg
Seoul said Sunday that negotiations with the United States to secure the release of South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid have "concluded" and they would soon be freed and flown home. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/asia-pacific/politics/south-korea-us-immigration-lg-hyundai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #us #southkorea #hyundai #lg #georgia #immigration #donaldtrump#leejaemyung
U.S. immigration officials raided the construction site of a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia, arresting hundreds of South Korean citizens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/07/asia-pacific/immigration-raid-south-korea-rattle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #us #southkorea #immigration #donaldtrump#leejaemyung #hyundai #carmakers #lg
South Koreans suspected of working in the United States illegally were the majority of 475 people arrested in a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/06/world/crime-legal/us-raid-south-korea-hyundai-georgia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #hyundai #southkorea #us #donaldtrump #immigration
#US #immigration authorities arrested 475 workers at #Hyundai facility in #Georgia on Thursday, #ICE official says
Many of those arrested had temporary #visas for #tourism & #business travel that are not authorized for work, including #SouthKorea nationals, the official told Reuters.
Not exactly the worst of the worst criminals #Trump claims to be arresting
#law #labor #economy#TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-immigration-authorities-arrested-475-workers-hyundai-facility-georgia-2025-09-05/
mat
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Wir machen diesen Sommer einen großen Roadtrip mit unserem #eauto ( #hyundai #ioniq 38kWh):
#Stuttgart - #Dänemark Nordspitze - (Fähre) - #FäröerInseln - (Fähre) - #Island - (Fähre) - Dänemark Nordspitze dann #Kopenhagen - #Malmö - Stuttgart
Ich plane die komplette Reise aus Sicht der #emobilität zu dokumentieren, aufgrund der relativ kleinen Batterie insbesondere hinsichtlich der Frage: Wie viel Reichweite braucht man wirklich?
Ihr dürft gespannt sein 😉🚗🛣️
Unser #hyundai hat diese lange Fahrt ohne jeglichen Probleme oder Pannen gemeistert.
Den Reifendruck musste ich auf den #Färöer einmal korrigieren. Ansonsten war rein gar nichts. So soll es sein.
Und die Antwort auf die Frage, ob man so eine Reise mit einem #eauto mit kleinem Akku und geringer Ladeleistung machen kann, lautet ganz klar "JA".
Und wenn man den Weg und die Ladestopps als Teil der Reise und des Erlebnisses versteht, dann auch sehr gut.
Dreizehnte und letzte Etappe: Aua ➡️ #Stuttgart
🛣 322.5 km
🚗 3:12 h reine Fahrzeit
🔋 39 min Lade-/Pausenzeit, aufgeteilt auf 1 Ladevorgang:
100% ➡️ 32%🔋(EWE Go) ➡️ 84% ➡️ 15% 🏁🏁
⚡️49.3 kWh Gesamtverbrauch bzw. 15.3 kWh/100 km (Auto vollbeladen)
Wir haben es geschafft! Nach drei Wochen und insgesamt ziemlich genau 5.000 Kilometern sind wir wieder wohlbehalten in #Stuttgart angekommen. 👋🍾
Da wir gestern "vorgefahren" sind, war es heute nur noch ein relativ kurzer Abschnitt.
Zwölfte Etappe: #Kopenhagen ➡️ Aua
🛣 650 km
🚗 7:44 h reine Fahrzeit
🔋 4:00 h Lade-/Pausenzeit, aufgeteilt auf 5 Ladevorgänge:
100% ➡️ 34%🔋(EWE Go) ➡️ 100% ➡️ 40%🔋(EWE Go) ➡️ 82% ➡️ 23%🔋(EWE Go) ➡️ 76% ➡️ 43%🔋(EWE Go) ➡️ 73% ➡️ 22%🏁 🔋(Grid & Co) ➡️ 100%
⚡️100.8 kWh Gesamtverbrauch bzw. 15.5 kWh/100 km (Auto vollbeladen)
Wir konnten das Auto über Nacht an der Unterkunft auf 100% SOC aufladen (AC), so dass wir es ohne Laden bis nach Fehmarn geschafft haben. 👍
Längstes Teilstück bisher.
Planänderung: Statt Hannover haben wir auf Fehmarn eine Unterkunft für die Nacht gesucht und sind im kleinen Ort Aua Höhe Fulda fündig geworden.
Landgasthof und Hotel. Super Bewertungen und Schnelllader von Grid & Co gegenüber auf dem Parkplatz. EWE Go Ladekarte und Tarif - perfekt.
Nach einem wirklich langen Tag auf der Autobahn, aber auch einem sehr leckeren Abendessen, liegen wir müde in den Betten. Autobahn in Deutschland ist anstrengend.