Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
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Exclusive: critics accuse Ice of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

Exclusive: critics accuse ICE of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

At least one of the Korean workers swept up in a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week was living and working legally in the US, according to an internal federal government document obtained by the Guardian.

Officials then “mandated” that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa.

The document shows that immigration officials are aware that someone with a valid visa was among the people arrested during the raid at the Hyundai factory and taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention for removal proceedings, where the people arrested remained on Tuesday before expected deportation flights back to South Korea.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think it’s really fair to call immigration dentention facilities in the US gulags quite yet. They are abhorrent but they’re still subject to oversight and generally people are held there temporarily. So while there are certainly human rights violations, I can understand why someone might hope they can wait until an improvement in the political situation if they are settled here.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Human rights abuses, abhorrent, etc. but gulags were only one step above death camps. They killed millions of people. We aren’t seeing that level of violence and cruelty yet.

        But I mean I hear you, we’re not too far from that it seems.

        • rarsamx@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          I think you are being victim of the boiling frog effect.

          Do you want to be pedantic and wait until the mass graves are discovered years after thebfact? Or do you see the escalating signs that they are going exactly in that direction?

          Right now they are already disappearing people. They are already following the totalitarian regime playbook and history has shown exactly where it leads to.

          By the way, remove the wool over your eyes, it’s not like the US doesn’t know the totalitarian regime playbook. They’ve used it many times in other countries to install puppet governments. The only difference is that they are doing it now at home.

        • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Yeah. I mean it’s not a competition. They can both be horrifying things that need to be stopped.

          “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

          • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I agree but I’m saying this is precisely the difference—people don’t feel they have nothing left to lose, and the available evidence supports that position. If we get to that point I hope people will read this passage and take it to heart.

            • rarsamx@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              23 hours ago

              People shouldn’t wait to get to that point when all the historical signs point in that direction.