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ICE raids Georgia Hyundai battery plant, sparking firestorm with South Korea – what to know
Fox News
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September 8, 2025
Fox News correspondent Madison Scarpino discusses the immigration raid conducted at a Hyundai plant in Georgia on ‘Fox News Live.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Federal agents detained nearly 500 workers during an immigration raid at...
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...
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...
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...
Biden Promised This Plant Would Create Jobs: Trump's DHS Just Caught Hundreds of Illegals Working There
The Western Journal
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September 7, 2025
Immigration authorities arrested nearly 500 illegal immigrants at a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Georgia, that former President Joe Biden once promised would create jobs that Americans “could raise a family on.” Law enforcement arrested 475 illegal...
US reentry guaranteed for Koreans detained in Georgia raid: FM
Korea Herald
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September 11, 2025
Seoul, Washington to launch joint working group on visa issues to avert repeat of mass detention Washington has pledged that 316 South Korean workers, scheduled to return home on Friday, will face no penalties if they seek to reenter the US,...
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...
“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...
White House says Trump will seek ‘Department of War’ rebrand for Pentagon
PBS Frontline
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September 5, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness for America’s military. The Republican president...
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...
Flight to take Korean nationals detained in Hyundai raid back home cancelled
WTOC 11 - Georgia
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September 10, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. (WTOC) - The Korean Air aircraft which landed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport earlier today is still at the airport. However, today’s planned departure at 2:30 p.m. is not happening. “The charter operation to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Judge grants Lisa Cook’s injunction to block Fed firing
Finance & Commerce - Minnesota
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September 10, 2025
The Blueprint Judge grants Lisa Cook injunction to stay on Fed board amid firing fight. Trump accused Cook of mortgage fraud tied to properties bought in 2021. Court ruled allegations not valid cause for removing a Fed governor. Case tests Fed...
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...