Posted on 09/12/2025 6:37:17 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump has offered the 300 South Koreans rounded up and detained during an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in Georgia the opportunity to stay in the U.S.
"Each person was allowed to choose, and the U.S. government said essentially, ‘If you want to go, you may go; if you want to stay, you may stay,’" South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said at a news conference Thursday, adding that one person had chosen to stay.
The offer marks a turnaround from the raid last week, when Trump urged foreign companies to "please respect our nation’s immigration laws" and "hire and train American workers."
Trump’s overture was intended to allow South Koreans with unlawful immigration status to stay and train American workers.
Some 300 South Koreans were arrested last week along with 150 others at a Georgia construction site for a $4.3 billion Hyundai and LG Energy Solution factory to build car batteries.
The raid was touted by Trump administration immigration authorities but came at a delicate time in the relationship between the U.S. and its ally South Korea. The two nations are engaged in trade negotiations, and Trump has been encouraging South Korea to build plants in the U.S.
Lee said South Korean businesses operating in the U.S. were in a "serious state of confusion."
South Korean companies have said for years that they’ve struggled to obtain short-term work visas for their specialists and had come to rely on a lax interpretation of the immigration law that previous administrations had allowed for them.
After the raid, Washington and Seoul will engage in discussions about establishing a new visa category for Koreans, the nation’s foreign minister, Cho Hyun, said.
"Our businesses that are investing in the United States will no doubt be very hesitant," Lee warned.
WHY!? They kept them on because they could pay them less and I’ll bet tyey loved together in cramped conditions to save money as well.
This is some of the stupid crap Trump does and lends a little credence to his TACO nickname.
Deport their asses! And fine Hyundai!
Or Korea could recruit and pay real wages to
educated US citizens .
Nope , The Koreans just ship over there labor here at a lower wage rate and displace US
citizens in the USA .
The USA gets more foreign labor and all the burdens like health care etc…
My point was, they don’t LIKE Americans. They prefer to work in their own language with their own kind.
No deals. You don’t do for one group, what you can’t, or won’t do for another. It sets a bad precedent. Screw that crap.
We have a good use for most of the illegals here. Once the gang bangers are gone I think there will be a softening stance. Trump already made the offer in his first term. You can stay just never vote. Those on public assistance will be dropped. and the weak ones will return to the old country on their own if they can’t hack it.
I hear ya .
thank you for the inside scoop .
I was not criticizing you .
Trumps flip floppy in beyond concerning .
And That our supposed ally thinks that way is very sad .
However , they may fear getting forced to hire our DEI nightmare labor pool in GA and AL .
Had a friend who worked for Infosys an Indian tech company. Same thing. They hired White girls fresh out of college to meet their tax abatement requirements and then treated them like crap until they quit, usually within a couple months. They would then replace them with Indians.
My friend held out for five years because she was a single mom who needed the job and benefits. They hired over her, made her train the Indians they brought in and then promoted over her. Treated her like dog poop on the bottom of their shoes. She finally had enough and found a different job outside of IT.
I go for that. Fine the company that imported them, require them to leaave the country and apply for proper visas then let them come back.
We only have each other don’t look to external countries for friends
Why would we want a foreign company that does not hire American workers?
There is no good use for people who violate our immigration laws, other than sending them back where they came from. My family came here from Holland and Canada legally in the early part of the 20th century. They followed the rules to get here. Never got a handout. Assimilated into American culture and asked for nothing. I won't settle for these people staying here. They broke the law to come here. They continue to break the law by staying here illegally. Many for 20-30 years. And there's no guarantee that they would never vote anywhere at any time, using a different identity. Stop being so naive. They all have to go back or else. No deals, no special favors for anyone. It's not just, and it's not fair.
Come on. The rules were different back then. They were enforced too. The old days-those that returned to the old country(30%) couldn’t hack it here leaving us with the best. I’d like to think that it made this country better. Ok so we got us more than a few lawbreakers that can help us. Make them pay a fine(which is nothing). Let them continue doing what they’re doing. Are they taking our jobs? Could be but the fact that they are working for less would tell me what too many of us won’t acknowledge-they just might work harder than the rest of us.
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
-The Kingston Trio.
**Ignore sanctions and wait for the U.S. to drop them in exchange for ceremonial or very limited cooperation.**
Understood. A photo-op in the WH w/Trump does wonders for the folks back home in terms of popularity. Gives the look of equals even though they’re not.
Yeah, back then, people who arrived at Ellis Island were separated...men from women, and kept isolated in quarantine until they were mentally and physically evaluated. They had to have a specific amount of money in their pocket, or they'd be sent back. They had to have a sponsor in the area they planned to settle, or they went back. They didn't just get to walk across the border, and have everything handed to them.
You want to make excuses for the people who have come here without permission, came here after walking across the backs of people who have been waiting in line to get here legally. How many of these illegals are you willing to take in and care for? I'm not willing to help them. They've already gotten my tax dollars handed to them, while God-loving, law abiding American citizens have taken it up the arse for decades. This country has been under invasion for many years, and you want to ignore that, and let the invaders stay. You sound like that idiot Rand Paul who never met a Democrat he didn't vote with.
30% of them in the old days couldn’t hack it here. These days it may be more. We have a good use for the others. We can always go back to the old ways. That’s up to people like you and me. Those in the pipeline could be expedited. Go ahead and fight for the South Africans the lefties will never embrace. That’s what the Charlie Kirks are here for. Please be half as brave. I’m small potatoes.
All Very good points .
thank you .
Yeah, deporting them all.
"We can always go back to the old ways."
You can never go back to the old ways. They are long gone, and won't be back. Just like the greatness this country had after WWII. That will never be back either. RATS would never allow it anyway. Don't think they won't cheat again to gain control and return to their old ways of destroying this country. All it takes is the blink of an eye.
RATS deliberately allowed unlimited illegals here to gain political power and keep it. It had nothing to do with helping people better their life. Why do you think they ran with the birthright citizen horse $hit? To stockpile enough illegals for future use. The useless Republicans never stood up to it. Children who are born here are not citizens at birth if their parents, especially the mother still holds allegiance to a foreign country. To become a citizen, you have to renounce all allegiances to the government, monarchy, etc., in the country you left. None of these people have done that, which means their children born here are not legal citizens.
RATS are all about using the influx of uncontrolled population to overwhelm the system, suck taxpayers dry, and steal elections. Chaos is their closest friend. Supporting criminals, and fighting for the bad guy is in their blood because they think it helps them politically. Nothing they've done has America's best interest at heart. They don''t care about this country, about you or me. They only care about themselves, and remaining in power.
People have been allowed to violate our immigration laws for decades. Many claim they came here for a better life, but if that didn't include taking steps to become an American citizen, which is part of making a better life, then they only came here to break the law, and don't deserve to stay. People who have been here 20-30 years without even taking any step toward citizenship, should be the first ones to go. They've been criminals the longest.
You need to stop fantasizing and deal with reality. Stop acting and thinking like a bleeding heart liberal. There is no advantage to keeping those criminals in this country, and every single one of them who came here without permission is a criminal. You can't white wash that.
I trust President Trump; I do not trust ncalburt (no offense intended).
who asked you simpleton .
go join a cult loser .
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