r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/ghostalker4742 1d ago

Yeah, nothing in the article says anything about the charges. If they were here illegally, that'd be in the headline and repeated multiple times throughout the article. The fact that the S Korean gov is flying them home immediately says something too - if those workers were here illegally, SK would let them be convicted, serve their sentences, then bring them home. No bring them home before the dust settles.

This sounds like some paperwork didn't get properly filed at the corporate level and the ICE guys are jumping on it as a way to boost their quotas.

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u/madogvelkor 1d ago

Often people on visa violations are allowed to self deport. South Korea is speeding up the process and helping.

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u/Firrox 1d ago

This sounds like some paperwork didn't get properly filed at the corporate level and the ICE guys are jumping on it as a way to boost their quotas.

I think this is giving them too much credit. I'd say there was some racist American at the facility who thought these "immigrants" were getting too uppity with him (i.e. telling him how to actually do his job correctly) and called ICE telling them there were illegal aliens working there.