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WORK ACROSS AT LEAST 22 KOREAN PROJECTS IN THE US HALTED

The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).

Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.

Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.
Korean conglomerates, including semiconductor giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., are heavily investing in US chip facilities, while Samsung SDI Co. and SK On Co. are building battery plants with their partners GM and Ford, respectively. Several of these sites rely on rotating teams of Korean engineers.

There are growing concerns in the business community that major Korean investment projects in the US could be affected, including the MASGA, or Make American Shipbuilding Great Again, program, a joint US-Korea shipbuilding project; Hyundai Steel Co.’s construction of a US steel mill; and the expansion of local factories by power equipment manufacturers HD Hyundai Electric Co., Hyosung Heavy Industries Co. and LS Electric Co.

These projects require the deployment of hundreds of employees from headquarters and partner companies.

‘TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS’

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids.

“Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

The incident underscores a structural weakness in Korea Inc.’s overseas expansion model.
 


“… The DHS smeared Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus after she went public with the harrowing story of how she was forced to spend three days in custody carrying the fetus of her dead son when she miscarried at 20 weeks.

Days later, in early May, she was deported to Guatemala …

… The mother of six, 38, gave an interview about her experience to the Nashville Banner on May 27. She described having to sleep “starving” on the floor of the notorious cockroach-infested Richwood Correctional Center, in Louisiana. She said she was forced to deliver her stillborn child while a prison guard watched over her.

… A month after Monterroso-Lemus’s story was published, Noem’s Department for Homeland Security (DHS) issued a furious rebuttal to “set the record straight.”

Point by point in a June 26 “fact check,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described the grieving mother’s allegations as “absolutely FALSE,” insisting the department “had documentation to show” she had been provided proper medical care—before stating Monterroso-Lemus was facing an active warrant for homicide in her native Guatemala.

… Court documents show that a judge threw out the 14-year-old warrant and freed Monterroso-Lemus on May 13, four days after she arrived in Guatemala. … It is not known when she was cleared of involvement in the alleged crime.

The court documents were issued six weeks before DHS claimed that she was wanted for “homicide.”

… McLaughlin said the warrant had been active when she was deported, without addressing why no attempt had been made to check it was still true with Guatemalan authorities ahead of the public statement. She said, “Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence gathering ended the second this criminal was off American streets.”…”

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So, it sounds like the deportation was justified based on information available at the time, the response by DHS afterward was shoddy at best and whether sufficient / humane medical treatment was provided by ICE during incarceration of this woman is still in doubt.
 
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“… The DHS smeared Iris Dayana Monterroso-Lemus after she went public with the harrowing story of how she was forced to spend three days in custody carrying the fetus of her dead son when she miscarried at 20 weeks.

Days later, in early May, she was deported to Guatemala …

… The mother of six, 38, gave an interview about her experience to the Nashville Banner on May 27. She described having to sleep “starving” on the floor of the notorious cockroach-infested Richwood Correctional Center, in Louisiana. She said she was forced to deliver her stillborn child while a prison guard watched over her.

… A month after Monterroso-Lemus’s story was published, Noem’s Department for Homeland Security (DHS) issued a furious rebuttal to “set the record straight.”

Point by point in a June 26 “fact check,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described the grieving mother’s allegations as “absolutely FALSE,” insisting the department “had documentation to show” she had been provided proper medical care—before stating Monterroso-Lemus was facing an active warrant for homicide in her native Guatemala.

… Court documents show that a judge threw out the 14-year-old warrant and freed Monterroso-Lemus on May 13, four days after she arrived in Guatemala. … It is not known when she was cleared of involvement in the alleged crime.

The court documents were issued six weeks before DHS claimed that she was wanted for “homicide.”

… McLaughlin said the warrant had been active when she was deported, without addressing why no attempt had been made to check it was still true with Guatemalan authorities ahead of the public statement. She said, “Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence gathering ended the second this criminal was off American streets.”…”

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So, it sounds like the deportation was justified based on information available at the time, the response by DHS afterward was shoddy at best and whether sufficient / humane medical treatment was provided by ICE during incarceration of this woman is still in doubt.
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“… Monterroso-Lemus is now living as a free woman in her family’s remote village in Guatemala, but is unable to return to Lenoir City, near Knoxville, Tennessee, to be with her devastated fiancé, Gary Bivens, 45.

Bivens told the Beast that a warrant for his partner’s arrest had been issued in April 2011 after a former boyfriend of Monterroso-Lemus shot his own father. Monterroso-Lemus had actually tried to help save the man’s life, Bivens said.

Bivens—who now keeps his son’s ashes in a box by his bed as a reminder of what he and his fiancée have lost—described the other “fact check” claims made by the DHS as “a bunch of BS.”

An official hospital document dated April 29 stated Monterroso-Lemus had been admitted “with pregnancy complicated by no PNC” (meaning pre-natal care)—which Bivens noted was in direct contradiction to what DHS claimed in its “fact check.”

Bivens accused the DHS of issuing the “fact check” as part of a “smear campaign” to “bury the original story, which is [that] they made this woman sit there with a dead baby—my son—in her stomach for three days.”…”
 
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“… But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she was unable to offer any help to the deported immigrants, four of whom appear to now sit in a prison camp in Ghana awaiting transfer to Nigeria or The Gambia. Because they now are in the custody of the Ghanaian government, she said, her “hands are tied.”

… Lawyers for the men say that as soon as they reached Ghana, they were informed that they would be quickly transferred to their home countries, even though they had won protection from U.S. immigration courts from being returned to their homes for fear of persecution or torture.

They allege that the Trump administration used Ghana to circumvent those protections. They had asked Chutkan to order the Trump administration to disclose details of its arrangement with Ghana to determine whether there might be legal options to demand the return of their clients.…”
 
nycfan said:
“… But U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said she was unable to offer any help to the deported immigrants, four of whom appear to now sit in a prison camp in Ghana awaiting transfer to Nigeria or The Gambia. Because they now are in the custody of the Ghanaian government, she said, her “hands are tied.”

… Lawyers for the men say that as soon as they reached Ghana, they were informed that they would be quickly transferred to their home countries, even though they had won protection from U.S. immigration courts from being returned to their homes for fear of persecution or torture.

They allege that the Trump administration used Ghana to circumvent those protections. They had asked Chutkan to order the Trump administration to disclose details of its arrangement with Ghana to determine whether there might be legal options to demand the return of their clients.…”
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Does presidential immunity cover crimes against humanity at The Hague?
 
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