US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia, where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.

The Pew Research Center, citing preliminary Census Bureau data, said the US labour force lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January through July.

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Seems like it. Pretty sure all they care about is being able to report “we arrested 450 illegals” regardless of the actual truth of the situation.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    and by 'illegals' they mean 'brown people' (regardless of origin or nationality or legal status to work here).

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    or even actual brownness. i have a friend from Ukraine that got called "wetback". worth noting, she's a US citizen. so… you know… look. racists aren't exactly known for their critical thinking skills

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it's very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.

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