Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
If only our media would report what happened in this fashion. Our media is propping up this authoritarian regime's propaganda. I wonder what Trump's approval rating would be if news was not sanewashed and Americans were reading how the rest of the world sees us. Would it even be in the 20's?
This stopped in 2023. I'd like to see 2024 to see if POC really switched to Trump as much as Republicans say they did. Does anyone know the numbers?
White people overwhelmingly voted for republicans and Trump, just like they have for decades.
ACTUALLY OUR ELECTION WAS RIGGED. SHE WON 💙 AND HE KNOWS IT thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whi...
you can see the 2024 vote totals right there. PoC did make up a larger proportion of trump's voters in 2024 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
And white people handed him the election easily.
Non-voters really need to get up off the couch. I hope Dems can learn how to get out the vote soon, or we won't have a country left.
Washington. My state. Love it.
Nah, sorry, he still has support of 130 million Americans even now. Americans broadly don't seem to mind what he's doing too much.
Don’t despair. The latest Reuters poll has him at 56% disapproval, 42% approval. And only 36% approval on his economy.
It has stayed rock solid at 40-42% since he was elected, despite all the atrocities already committed by the MAGA admin. I think *Americans* should be despairing, because those are not numbers that result in change.
Trump in both terms has registered the lowest average approval ratings ever. He is already costing the GOP seats in Congress. It will only get worse. Our battle is to preserve voting rights. If we somehow do that, there will be change for the better.
Didn't Trump win the popular vote?
NOT LEGALLY
Yes. Trump broadened his support among nonwhite, working-class, and younger male voters. It is so embarrassing
@ceciliaeamaquina.bsky.social
Os trabalhadores coreanos tinham visto B1 e passaram 1 semana trancafiados em lugares sujos e mofados, com 72 pessoas em cada cela, sofrendo xenofobia e assédio moral, total contra direitos humanos, e as autoridades dos US dps disseram que não sabiam pq eles estavam presos 🤡 é muita cara de pau ☠️
Nossa, bicho. Eu tava lendo uns trechos traduzidos e que coisa absolutamente horrorosa
Quanto mais eu li, mais nauseada eu fiquei. Completamente desumano. E isso tá rolando a rodo com todo mundo, inclusive brasileiros.
'Rocket Man' is what Trump called Kim Jong Un of NK. So, it was a racial slur they invented
And it was about NORTH Korea, and they were South Korean citizens.
These people are from South Korea, Einstein.
They're all Koreans genius
South and central Americans dying laughing right now 🤦🏻♀️
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Ethnically yes, but the country is divided into two different countries. You don't seem to understand why that makes a difference, so I will cease any further interaction and wish you a good day.
Oh honey. This is not about the regime they live under. They share an ethnicity and that's why our idiot ICE Nazis used it as a racial slur. But the thing is why are you replying to others so rudely and acting like a know-it-all? Do better.
Now I’m curious…in this context, why does it matter?
It illustrates the ignorant racism of the agents enacting humiliation upon the unlawfully detained South Korean nationals
Yes, obviously. But that doesn’t explain why the person I was asking thought it necessary to respond to a comment about the origin of “rocket men” by stating that these workers are South Korean
I appreciate the post. but seriously US translation? US? US?!
Google translation (w/a few omissions): For workers who were detained for 7 days while working at a battery factory construction site in Georgia, USA, ‘human rights’ was a missing word. The 'detention diary' of worker A, obtained by Yonhap News on the 14th, contained a detailed account 1/X
of the horrific detention facility conditions and human rights violations at the time. Person A entered the country on a legal B1 visa (a short-term business visa used for business trips, etc.). During a two-month business trip for business meetings and training, 2/X
he was arrested with his wrists bound with cable ties. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided the facility around 10:00 a.m. on the 4th. They first searched the workers, who were wearing hard hats and safety shoes. Mr. A was not even able to retrieve his ID or passport. 3/X
At 1:20 p.m., ICE agents handed out paperwork related to a warrant for alien arrest and asked people to fill in the blanks. During this process, there was no explanation of the documents or notice of the Miranda Rights. The high-pressure atmosphere made it difficult to interpret 4/X
the English text line by line as the documents were being filled out. Person A wrote in a record ... at the time, "The workers submitted the papers thinking that they would be released if they wrote them down," and after submitting the documents, they were given red bracelets on their wrists. 5/X
Afterwards, the agents began to confiscate the luggage of the workers who had submitted their documents. They forced them to put their belongings, including cell phones, in bags that resembled onion nets. Mr. A, who noticed the serious atmosphere, secretly turned on his cell phone 6/X
that was between his luggage, sent a message to his family and company saying, "I don't think I can contact you," and then turned it off again. After waiting for over nine hours, Mr. A boarded a police van with his wrists tightly bound with cable ties. 7/X
Those who had gone before were moved with chains tied to their waists, legs, and wrists. There was a toilet inside the convoy, and the smell of urine was overwhelming. The air conditioning wasn't even on. 8/X
The workers, brought in without knowing English, were initially herded into a 72-person temporary facility. They were assigned rooms ... and the detainees were moved around. There were 4 communal toilets and 2 urinals, along with bunk beds... There was no clock and no view outside. 9/X
The bed mats were moldy. It wasn't easy to handle menstruation in a cramped space. Next to the toilet, there was barely enough cloth to cover the lower body. Ms. A endured, holding back her period. [My note: I don't see how that's physically possible] 10/X
trump and his minions are an intergalactic embarrassment.
Trump's gonna deport anyone who translates this.
I am ready
Made to fill out blank arrest warrants basically at gunpoint.
These are the boys, now in adult bodies, who never got invited to the Sadie Hawkins dance, they smelled bad and wore dirty black clothes, got lousy grades and nobody would sit with them at lunch
10000s of jobs and 100000000000s of dollars down the toilet by trump and goons. Anyone still supporting him?
Of course they will. There's always an explanation as to why this is great for Trump and great for America! Any evidence to the contrary are lies crafted by those with TDS.
wtf!!
Civilized countries cannot be that far away from warning all of their citizens that traveling to the US is not safe, with serious human rights violations, no due process, even speech can seriously imperil your safety
How we treat allies, imagine the rest.
Enemies fight back and have the ability to inconvenience them.
A great tradition from slavery! *irony off
What a disgrace.
Rocket men? As in what Trump called Kim Jong Un a few years back? Did they raid this facility thinking they were like North Korean spies or something? We have given stupid people too much power.
If you stand really far away and squint, you can almost hear a touch of accountability/apology in that. Oh hahahahahaha wtf am i thinking.
"Come train our people to replace you, (maybe they'll only be detained for a week or so),then gtfo." isn't the selling point he thinks it is. I hope other countries stop investing here. Their people won't be safe.
So what happened to that idea?
Ugh
trump did not write this. Bessent may have dictated it. I thought MAGAs were all ready to do these jobs themselves, so why do they need training, by trump's own admission? Are they stupid and uneducated??
I really want to hear him try to say disincentivize… Someone realized what a huge mistake this was. Someone who can write.
And obviously that was written by one of his pr guys.
Yes, it’s not in crayon….
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Who is, even now, being escorted into the White House basement for re-education. Grammar? Punctuation? Spelling? Coherency? Anathema!
I wonder if the world court will press charges on some of our leaders for human rights violations for this and the international water violations
Losing face in Asian cultures along with honor is a big no no. So sad the honorable folks were treated so badly by this seedy bunch.
We didn’t lose face America did
I hope to hell SK drops ALL US business and works with other partners. In fact the SK gvt should now tariff the f out of trump. Make it so bad that Trump poops himself in public
Useful to have a detailed account of how ICE abuse the people they grab.
Videos: "Masked agents of the state random people off the streets into unmarked cars while saying “liberals ruined the country.” bsky.app/profile/maxb... never want to hear MAGA claim to believe in freedom again" "pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers buy their own pencils"
Also just how racist and ignorant these people ICE is hiring are... the ugly American can now do what they want, to who they want and POTUS and SCOTUS will back them. NEVER travel to the USA folks... never.
We need names.
Yep.
Trump. Miller. Noem.
Patel. Bongino. McMahon. Basically everybody in that criminal regime.
Goddamned straight. We need a reckoning.
I heard they don't wear name tags in Trump's secret police.
Miller Miller Miller??
Our media is complicit… this is why this happened. bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
But America's leadership and their proxy racists aren't Nazis, right?
It's... something. www-yna-co-kr.translate.goog/view/AKR2025...
Nobody will ever want to invest in this country anymore, or send people to work and study.
Stephen Miller thinks its funny according to rollingstone
Images of Herr Miller suffering and clothed in burlap – wrists shackled to his emaciated waist, licking water from a toilet seat and being forced into the sunlight for two hours a day – fuel my hope for America's future.
Of course, it'll never happen because decent people wouldn't allow it. We'll just have to be content with him locked in a prison listening to Taylor Swift, Rage Against the Machine, and Green Day songs played in rotation 24/7.
He'd catch fire in sunlight.
🤷🏻♂️Yup.
This. They will make promises now for “quintillion” dollar investments to give Trump something to blow hard about. And to get tariffs lowered. But they will delay the money, and wait out Trump’s term.
Then they will wait on the US to reform, and demand concessions before investing. Meanwhile Korean (and other) foreign tourists will stay away from the U.S.
It will take 15-20 years to heal the rifts and earn back trust in US rule of law and enforcement of treaty agreements.
Trump is squandering the post-WWII leadership prestige that FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy established in Europe, Asia and Oceana. We may regain some prestige, but it will never be as great.
"It wasn't easy to handle menstruation in a cramped space. Next to the toilet, there was barely enough cloth to cover the lower body. Ms. A endured, holding back her period. bsky.app/profile/numb... How much would they have to pay their engineers and managers to come back and finish this factory?
Thank you.
Fack ice
I love the way SK detainees chronicled their hellish experience by taking photos of everything- including documents they were forced to sign without translation. I’m glad they are publicizing what happened to them in this country that boasts how “free” it is.
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Engineers and other specialists in their fields. They really need to demand a public apology at the very least
Absolutely... which the GOP will completely screw up. Asian countries are generally used to their CEOs and politicians owning up, and bowing in apology on-camera, so the half-assed performative version this regime would offer will surely be considered insufficient. It's gonna get drawn out and messy
Yup
Racist taunts paid for with our tax dollars. Any sane government would fire these completely unprofessional ice agents.
South Korea, you are welcome in Canada. Come build with us. We value human rights and democracy. #hyundai #LG #boycottUSA
If we had a legitimate media this would be headline number one. But of course we don’t.
Yep... all the MSM are owned by sycophants who wouldn't dare publish articles critical of PedOTUS.
That is the travesty. Fox News should be boycotted & thrown out
That ship sailed long ago.
It’s never too late. We the people have the power to reveal the corruption, lies, etc. through our resistance.💪🏻
Hope you’re right
This is despicable!
Maybe they should file complaints in International court and subject individuals who were just “following orders” to individual charges against the Geneva convention.
Shame on our Gov. & every a-hole that works anywhere for this regime. They're ignorant cowards wking for Putin's bitch & no better than dt. dt is lowest form of humanity we have ever seen in the USA. Too bad Dahmer isn't still alive, he cld be the GQP's next Prez. Candidate. It's time to end GQP.
There's a diary. Someone stole a pen and recorded everything. "Mr. A asked, "I entered through legal B-1 procedures and acted in accordance with those purposes. Why was I arrested?" The agent reportedly responded, "I don't know, and the people above think it was illegal."
South Korea needs to work with Japan and get the bomb illico presto. There is no more a US umbrella while Trump is cozying up to the Northern dictator.
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This should probably be nationwide news in the sense of: "damn. This sure is embarrassing for us AS A NATION isn't it?" But no. Let's keep doing the culture war instead. What's the worst that could happen? /s
Perfect example of how Trump runs America.
Spiteful stupidity backed up by violent stupidity l.
And they were here….legally.
The lady that tipped off ice that’s running for some political seat in Georgia needs to continue to be called out for being stupid
They'll probably vote for her. They voted for a lady who talks about Jewish space lazers twice.
Korea should pull all of its companies out of the US, kick out the US Military, and seize American businesses in korea as compensation.
I wouldn’t be surprised
I saw on one jobsite they backed up and left.
There are two Koreas. South Korea has all the electronics companies, and those may well pull out of the US South Korean vloggers made a sport out of hunting down Johnny Somali last year North Korea, the reason the US military is in the area, is one of the dictatorships that Trump likes so much
There is one Korea. Half of it is militarily occupied by the US, and the other has closed itself off to the rest of the world in fear that the US might come back and commit another genocide on their people.
North Korea is the way it is because y'all exterminated a fifth of their population and they don't want you to come back.
ICE is loaded to the gills with armed dumbfux — And it's about to get worse as Drumpy approaches the bottom of the barrel.
@crustiandaily.news
ICE are the dumbest people alive
Outrageous and criminal treatment of these people. Who were, one should not forget, trying to do something to benefit Americans. No “US translation” (whatever that is) required to understand that America is off the chain right now. Not an ally. Not a friend. Not even a remotely civilised place.
So true!
This regime is doing so much damage to our country. Where are the leaders with good morals to protect us instead of going along with this horrible insanity?
Is this being reported in the corporate media in the US?
Nope!
The South Koreans back home will give them all the 😍 to make up for the cruelty, but that US reputation will be forever damaged. That loss of face could only be made up by cruelty to innocent Americans in return.
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Jesus Christ! The United States is frick’n 1930’s Nazi Germany.
South Korean companies need to ALL pull out of the US. It is a hostile nation. The South Korean government needs to levy sanctions on America for this, too. The US is acting like an enemy nation, not an ally.
'Rocket men?' What does that even mean? Christ we are an ignorant country.
Trump's perjorative for DPRK leader Kim Jong El after missile testing into the Pacific.
Wait. What? You're kidding. Of course you're not kidding. We're in the the time of Occams anti-Razor. The stupidest answer is always the one that actually happened. I hate this timeline. I hate how ignint we are.
It's absolutely amazing that this is only the second or third most pathetic thing to be revealed about the administration in the last ten days. In a normal universe the Epstein Birthday Book, the Hyundai detention and the CK shooting would all be a month of negative press each >
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Episode #363 in the United States becomes the Soviet Union. This is how Americans who went to work at the Ford plant (GAZ) in the USSR were treated in the 1930s. Most ended up in the Gulag system. No country in its right mind would invest in the U.S. right now.
Abu Ghraib 2.0?
It's time for Canadians to come home, things are not safe there anymore.
The ICE actions go beyond shameful. Not sure what the correct word should be.
Here's an English language SK news account www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...
Sounds like Landau is writing checks his ass can’t back- because Trump is a loose cannon with an army of brown shirts- ICE
All deserved.
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Thank you for this. I am sickened by all of it, and especially the absolute ignorance of ICE agents followed up by the detention center conditions. This should absolutely be an international incident and it should be RUBIO, not Landau trying to correct this.
Yea but this is not First Term Trump - he barely knows who people are, and so I don’t t see that happening absent a shift in Republicans self preservation strategy.
Saying it's an opportunity to strengthen the visa system, bruh WHAT? Legal immigration or work status doesn't seem to matter with our own homegrown STASI agents.
This. They were nonwhite. That was all it took.
I'm glad the South Koreans are home, and I don't suppose they will want to come back. I see the apologies starting up. Oops, we didn't mean you brown people. Come and finish building stuff for us, and then we can kick you out. But I've got to ask, what's a US translation? Don't you mean English?
We might die of mortification.
Please tell them we all know why they were detained...... the people in Georgia are especially racist. Dear South Korea, stay away until we can clean these stains out of the American fabric. We are working on it.
Perhaps new fabric is required. Not just a cleaning job on the fabric you have. Work harder and faster, please.
You may be right. Some are working really hard while (too many) others are just starting to pop their heads up and saying "WTF"? But we will keep plowing through and throwing out the trash. There's so much of it! Hopefully the late comers pitching in will get it done. It's their world too afterall.
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They… don’t the know the difference between north and South Korea. 😳
All they see is skin color.
I have SK family and am deeply ashamed of my country right now. Our ignorance is boundless.
Translation to English is available on that site. Just scroll down the menu and you’ll see an English option.
And this is how the US treats its allies.
Unbounded stupidity Only matched by their collective racism
This appears targeted. But that too.
So deeply shameful. I know it’s the point of ICE & this administration… just another item to add to the list
They are rebranding their name just for the US, now it’s Hyun Dai Gone
what a stain this administration is. this is so fucked I don't know what to say
Safe to say this “diary” is going to be the subject of history books for the rest of our lifetimes.
