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The deportation economy hits Georgia
The Iola Register - Kansas
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September 8, 2025
The sweeping ICE operation in Georgia Thursday that rounded up some 475 illegal workers at a showcase development project is intended as a warning to employers nationwide. It also illustrates the America First contradiction of demanding foreign...
Arrest of South Koreans in Georgia unlikely to hurt Seoul- Washington ties
Weekly Blitz
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September 8, 2025
Reports of the recent raid of a Georgia-based Hyundai E.V. plant and subsequent arrest of its workers, most of whom were South Korean citizens by the US Department of Homeland Security are regrettable indeed. New South Korean President Lee Jae...
An ICE Immigration Raid at a Hyundai Plant in Georgia Captured 300 South Koreans
Green Matters
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September 8, 2025
South Korea's president vowed “all-out necessary measures” to support the detainees. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been making the news throughout 2025, as raids around the U.S. have kept countless communities...
Trump has accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of mortgage fraud. Here’s what that is
KRDO - Colorado
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September 8, 2025
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — As part of his effort to gain control over the Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump is attempting to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook based on allegations that she may have committed mortgage fraud. No charges have been...
“Putin Wants More Than Ukraine — Moldova, Georgia, and Kazakhstan Are Next,” Warns Former US Ambassador
Georgia Today
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September 8, 2025
Interview by Vazha Tavberidze This is Putin’s neo-imperialist war, aimed at recovering parts of the Russian Empire lost with the Soviet collapse in 1991, – warns Ambassador Steven Pifer, former US ambassador to Ukraine and one of the chief...
NEW DETAILS: Honda-LG joint venture near Jeffersonville continues after Georgia raid
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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But on Monday, LG said work is nearing completion on the Fayette County plant spearheaded by its joint venture with Honda, called “L-H Battery.” “Currently, we are continuing with daily tasks where associates are being trained, and manufacturing...
Georgia National Guard to support D.C. public safety mission
WVGA Valdosta Today - Georgia
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September 8, 2025
ATLANTA – Governor Brian Kemp announces that the Georgia National Guard will provide support to the D.C. public safety mission. Governor Brian P. Kemp announced that the Georgia National Guard is providing support to the ongoing Joint Task...
Trump administration drops legal defense of Biden-era noncompete ban
Washington Examiner
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September 8, 2025
The Trump administration dropped its legal defense of an aggressive Biden-era ban on employee noncompete agreements, marking a return to the status quo for federal policy on labor competition.In court filings submitted Friday, the Justice...
Georgia NAACP urges Emory to reverse decision to close DEI offices
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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The Georgia NAACP hopes to change Emory's President's mind about getting rid of DEI programs. The school announced the change last week. The NAACP wants to meet with Emory before the end of the month. ATLANTA - The Georgia NAACP is calling on...
South Korea wants workers detained in Georgia raid to be allowed re-enter US
The Irish Times
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South Korea said on Monday it was in talks with the United States over allowing the re-entry of hundreds of its citizens who were arrested last week during a US immigration raid at a car battery project and are due to be flown home soon. About 300...
What to know about the Hyundai-LG plant immigration raid in Georgia
CNBC
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September 8, 2025
This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees being escorted outside the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga Corey...
Hundreds of Koreans arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia
Hankyoreh
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September 8, 2025
US authorities carried out a massive immigration raid on a battery factory under construction in Georgia co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution on Sept. 4, 2025. (still from video posted to social media) The US Department of...
Casi 500 detenidos en redada en planta de Hyundai. En Georgia, el silencio es ensordecedor
KVIA - Texas
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September 8, 2025
Por Graham Hurley y Dalia Faheid, CNN Si conduces hacia Ellabell, Georgia, por la ruta estatal 204 –pasando unas casas prefabricadas, un par de iglesias y un Dollar General– jamás imaginarías que a solo unos kilómetros se levanta un enorme...
South Korean Companies Halt Georgia Investments After ICE Raid
Jalopnik
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September 8, 2025
Happy Monday! It's September 8, 2025, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you'll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans...
STREAM LIVE: Hearings for 61 defendants charged in Atlanta Public Safety Training Center protests
Atlanta News First - Georgia
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September 8, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A series of motions hearings are underway in what could be the largest criminal racketeering case in American history, right here in Atlanta. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer is overseeing the...
Ronald Brownstein: Democrats’ Senate problems are more than map-deep
The Times-Tribune - Pennsylvania
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September 8, 2025
The odds of Democrats recapturing the Senate in next year’s midterm election are long. The usual explanation is that they are confronting a “difficult map,” with few opportunities to flip seats that Republicans now hold. That’s not wrong, but as...
Trump’s Invasion of Washington DC Costs over $1 Million a Day
Marxism-Leninism Today
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September 8, 2025
August 25, 2025 Inequality.org Deploying the National Guard against D.C.’s unhoused population costs four times more than simply housing them. And that’s true across the country. President Trump mobilized the D.C. National Guard under the guise of...
South Koreans feel betrayed over detainment of hundreds of workers at Georgia plant raid
WTVC - Tennessee
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s foreign minister departed for the U.S. on Monday to finalize steps for the return of several hundred South Korean workers detained last week in a massive immigration raid in Georgia, as the incident caused...
South Korea to fetch workers detained in Georgia raid
The Week Magazine
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September 8, 2025
What happened South Korea Sunday said it will send an airplane to the U.S. to collect more than 300 of its citizens detained in an immigration raid on a Hyundai-LG Energy Solution electric-vehicle battery plant under construction in rural...
Comment: More than ‘the map’ complicates Democrats’ Senate hopes
Herald - Washington State
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September 8, 2025
By Ronald Brownstein / Bloomberg Opinion The odds of Democrats recapturing the Senate in next year’s midterm election are long. The usual explanation is that they are confronting a “difficult map,” with few opportunities to flip seats that...