South Korea says Deal Reached with US for Release of Detained Workers

Tuesday, September 09, 2025

The South Korean government announced on Sunday that it reached a deal with the United States to secure the release and repatriation of over 300 of its citizens who were detained during a sweeping U.S. immigration enforcement action at a Hyundai manufacturing plant in Georgia.

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A lawyer for several workers detained at a Hyundai factory in Georgia says many of the South Koreans rounded up in the immigration raid are engineers and equipment installers brought in for the highly specialized work of getting an electric battery plant online. https://to.pbs.org/4m0dVTD

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-- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Sep 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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Posted by lfthndthrds

This clown is a bottomless well of irrational stupidity.

#1 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-09-07 02:08 PM | Reply

Im-be-cile

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-07 02:12 PM | Reply

And what's the penalty for Hyundai?

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-07 02:24 PM | Reply

"And what's the penalty for Hyundai?"

The cost of having the plant closed indefinitely is the strongarm part of the penalty.

Someone check if the cable outlets been showing "You Can Take This Job And Shove It" for the late show recently, giving Trump this idea.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 03:02 PM | Reply

You were so excited about writing the headline you forgot to figure out what really happened. They were construction workers at a facility being built next to the auto plant. apnews.com

#5 | Posted by et_al at 2025-09-07 08:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

OOPSIE DAISY Someone got fact checked again.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-07 08:53 PM | Reply

Why aren't these criminals being sent to El Gulago, Alligator Alcatraz, and whatever other pet names for fascism they have now.

There isn't a Republican who can tell me why it should be that these criminals get a charter flight out but tens of thousands of others are sent to camps at massive taxpayer expense.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-07 09:09 PM | Reply

#5 | POSTED BY ET_AL AT 2025-09-07 08:39 PM | REPLY | FLAG

Bless your heart for your further investigation. But theres still 475 jobs open for Americans.

America is winning.

Admit it. You'd love America to fail before you'd want it to win under President Trump.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-08 06:23 AM | Reply

"America is winning"

Pathetic.

#9 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-08 06:30 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

You'd love America to fail before you'd want it to win under President Trump.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds a

America is failing under Trump.

What a sad little man.

Had any eggs recently?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-08 08:20 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Trump Recession by.....October? In other words, exactly when expected.

Dead American protesters by....November? In other words, exactly when expected?

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-08 08:30 AM | Reply

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds

It's obvious by now that EVERY bad thing predicted for Trump is come true or will very likely come true?

Out of genuine curiosity-----You voted for all it?

Really?

Wow.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-08 08:34 AM | Reply

"You'd love America to fail before you'd want it to win under President Trump."

We wanted America to win on COVID.
Trump wanted America to lose.
So we got hit twice as hard as Canada and Mexico.

You love Trump's failures so much you call them wins.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-08 11:47 AM | Reply

"But theres still 475 jobs open for Americans."

No there are not.

Can we see the link where you could apply to one of these 475 jobs and do something with your life -- other than cheerleading for Trump?

No. That's not part of your cheerleader routine.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-08 11:48 AM | Reply

Bless your heart for your further investigation. But theres still 475 jobs open for Americans.

America is winning.

No Americans can qualify for those particular jobs. That's why they brought in the Koreans. To construct the plant and teach Americans how to operate it. Once the plant was built it would have employed thousands.

So now if the plant is closed and not finished all those opportunities are lost. And the money spent to bring manufacturing home America (to build foreign cars?) is wasted and the plant will be shuttered.

Unless Trumpy back peddles and finds some other country crazy enough to come here or he apologizes for his criminal incompetence and begs Sourh Korea to stay and finish the work they started.

So much winning!

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-08 11:49 AM | Reply

"Sour Korea".

And I bet they are!

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-08 11:51 AM | Reply

Admit it. You'd love America to fail before you'd want it to win under President Trump.

#8 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Admit it, you'll act like everything is just fine and "winning" no matter how bad it gets because you're a sycophantic dumbs%**.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-08 12:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

What a sad little man.

Had any eggs recently?

POSTED BY ZED

Just on his face.

#18 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-08 02:28 PM | Reply

I worked with Hyundai in the past as an engineering firm and they are very serious about employee discipline.We got drunk and phoned hyundai's office in Korea as a prank and said the head guy was locked in his hotel crying and wouldn't come out of the room.They had a team of guys show up in Vancouver and up the highway to the mill in less than 24 hours.That was in the late 90's.

#19 | Posted by Scotty at 2025-09-09 01:44 PM | Reply