Exclusive: critics accuse ICE of ‘outrageous’ and ‘unlawful’ detention of Korean man

At least one of the Korean workers swept up in a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week was living and working legally in the US, according to an internal federal government document obtained by the Guardian.

Officials then “mandated” that he agree to be removed from the US despite not having violated his visa.

The document shows that immigration officials are aware that someone with a valid visa was among the people arrested during the raid at the Hyundai factory and taken to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention for removal proceedings, where the people arrested remained on Tuesday before expected deportation flights back to South Korea.

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    unlawful

    I mean, it definitely should be, but if some idiot asshole ICE agent thought this Korean was Filipino it seems like our Supreme Court would be ok with this

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      I don’t trust an ICE thug to know the difference between night and day, let alone different asians/pacific islanders.

      The ONLY Asians I’d expect them to be able to identify are russians.