| ▲ | WastedCucumber 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do you have a source describing the "illegality"? This is genuine question - I have not found a source digging into the legal question. The best I could find was a suggestion that their visa waivers were in fact correct for the purpose, except for the fact that their companies were using visa waivers over and over again. Or maybe the workers were? I'm not sure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jjani 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hope you speak Korean! Straight from the horse's mouth. [0] The companies themselves were well aware they were working illegally. People were even doing visa runs to chain them, it doesn't get much more blatant then that. It's pretty obvious and not a real point of contention. Being honest about this does not support the raid, and acting as if it does helps nobody and only hurts. [0] https://www.teamblind.com/kr/post/%ED%98%84%EC%B0%A8-%EC%97%... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | palmfacehn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You have posed a reasonable question with good intentions. A simple Google search reveals: >U.S. authorities said some of the detained Korean workers had illegally crossed the U.S. border, while others entered legally but had expired visas or entered on visa waivers that prohibited them from working. From PBS, a source with a well known editorial stance against the current administration. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/south-korean-workers-retu... >Like many of the Koreans who were working there, advocates and lawyers representing the non-Korean workers caught up in the raid say that some who were detained had legal authorization to work in the United States. LA Times, similar https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-14/famili... With any of these contentious partisan issues it is important to be wary of cherry picking. Typically events are selectively reported to fit a given partisan agenda. It would be extreme to believe that entire groups are being arbitrarily detained and deported. Similarly, it isn't unreasonable to expect mistakes to be made. The reasonable thing to do with extreme claims such as the ones made in this thread is to do a simple Google search before engaging in partisan flames. It has become almost impossible to have a reasonable discussion here on any topic which may tangentially involve Trump. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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