Detained Hyundai Factory Worker Claims ICE Violated His Human Rights Because He Had to Share Toilets
I read this article about supposed human rights violations of the Hyundai workers expecting something horrible and yet the worst thing that happened was they had to share four toilets and two urinals with 72 other people. This guy likely conducted his mandatory service in the ROK military where the conditions are very similar:
A South Korean worker who returned home after days of detention in a U.S. immigration raid has recounted details of human rights violations, saying U.S. agents laughed at the worker in a scornful manner during interrogation, among other inhumane treatment.
The worker, who declined to be identified, shared a personal log of the ordeal with Yonhap News Agency after returning home Friday along with 329 others, including 14 foreigners, who had been arrested in the raid at the site jointly run by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution on Sept. 4.
The worker managed to record the ordeal during detention by secretly taking pen and paper provided to them to fill out documents.
You can read the rest at the link, but this guy was really offended about some ICE agent making a “Rocket Man” joke he didn’t even understand.
Well, clear this guy he skipped out on national service; just generally a criminal who doesn’t follow the laws of any country.
In other news, good he got back before the commie union of airport workers go on strike:
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10574404
So he didn’t just engage in willful violation of immigration law, he also stole United States government property so he could write minority jailhouse toilet pr0n fan fiction, a topic looked down upon even among the less decent authors of exploitation literature.
This man is dispicable.
Hyundai/LG need more vetting.
…or they need more lesbìan workers.
What part of being in jail for immigration violations failed to slip through that asshat’s bony cranial carapace?
Was he expecting the Grand Hyatt?
Ah yes, no doubt that claims made by @GIKorea and @setnaffa that they are “friends of Korea’ were all bullshit.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was revealed that both hadn’t even set foot in Korea.
Personally I doubt that @GIKorea was bullshitting us with claims he served in the USFK here.
Since they are against a strong ROK-US alliance no doubt that they are being paid by Russia and China to post materials that sow discontent in the alliance.
And from the Chosun, one of the oldest and conservative papers in South Korea, which traditionally supported conservative administrations and the ROK-US alliance.
https://www.chosun.com/english/world-en/2025/09/16/4ZOEOTDYQJCIBOARBGZYFFYJKU/
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), who argued that “South Korea and Japan would be better off paying tariffs and using their investment funds to support domestic companies rather than handing large sums to the Trump administration,” stated in an interview with this newspaper on the 15th: “The 25% tariff Trump imposed on South Korea will certainly deal a significant blow to its economy, but it would be less damaging than accepting a 15% tariff and simultaneously paying $350 billion (approximately 485 trillion Korean won).” The $350 billion figure represents roughly 84% of South Korea’s current total foreign exchange reserves.
In other words, why should South Korea burn its hard-earned dollars to prop up Trump when his team can’t even do the bare minimum for investors?
There’s more!
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/20250915/ice-raids-will-shackle-us-manufacturing-ambitions
Ultimately, the workers were allowed to fly home without any charges being filed; the work at least some of them appear to have been doing — installing, calibrating and testing advanced equipment — is allowed on temporary visas under certain conditions.
Regardless, construction has been delayed by several months. Visiting employees on several other South Korean projects across the U.S. have been recalled or told not to leave their hotel rooms. At home, some are balking at new U.S. assignments.
But if the White House is serious about setting up factories and not just winning flashy investment pledges, it ought to align its policies to that end.
It should redouble efforts to streamline permitting and invest in the hard, slow work of training workers to fill these jobs.
Opening visa pathways so that foreign companies can more easily bring in experts to set up their factories and teach local workers how to run them would help.
More to the point, the White House should ponder where exactly those workers are going to come from if its needlessly heavy-handed deportation campaign continues.
The National Association of Manufacturers predicts a shortage of nearly 2 million workers by 2033, in a sector that’s already heavily dependent on immigrants.
Interestingly, the Chosun is pumping out a lot of these editorials
https://www.chosun.com/english/opinion-en/2025/09/15/DBHETWLJPVFFTLHAI7A3H33JCU/
The agreement should stipulate that if the U.S. Congress fails to legislate the visa quota, the U.S. president must resolve it via executive order. The Hyundai Motor-LG Energy Solution joint battery plant in Georgia demonstrated that without visa solutions, projects cannot proceed smoothly.
Finally, if the U.S. refuses to accept these conditions or insists on an unbalanced agreement, South Korea must walk away.
South Korea is not without leverage. If negotiations collapse, the U.S. would have to abandon its dream of rebuilding its shipbuilding industry.
The Gismaga crowd needs to realize that going hard on against Koreans — who will head home anyways after installing and testing the factory equipment, and training U.S. workers — will cost their own economy dearly.
Korea Thing, @GIKorea and @setnaffa are “friends of Korea”. They’re just not your friend. Nobody wants to be your friend. You’re just a lame-ass be-och that wont shut up. Go find another platform for whatever cause you think you’re pushing.
Korea Thing,
The thing about Korea Man and me is we don’t use the same pet names for @setnaffa and his bots that the other guy did.
Funny how, besides @setnaffa, they all use the exact same terms.
No doubt they’re bots from @setnaffa’s laptop farm — he probably programmed them himself to use the same terms.
Should’ve been more careful.
Korea things learning Xi’s thots: