ICE in GA

Wow, ICE is getting carried away with its heavy-handed detention tactics. I think you might be able to apply the "jumped the shark" idiom on this move by ICE. Raiding a South Korean auto plant investment in Georgia to, uh, why? Arresting scientists and engineers now, are we? Well, I can pretty much promise that there are not enough American employees as qualified to fill these jobs as the people ICE just arrested. We're not too big in the educational field anymore. Can't even get a few new thoughts to grow in that field.

How to Lose Allies and Alienate Investors

John Fugelsang - Substack

Sept 6, 2025

You know what’s dumber than Tariffs on our allies, or the National Guard on our streets? ICE raiding a Hyundai plant in Georgia. 

Let’s recall some ancient history. Trump’s whole 2024 economic gospel was “Build factories in America, bring jobs home!”

Those of us who remembered Trump outsourcing his own merch manufacturing to Mexico & China tried to warn our MAGA pals. Trump’s own history proved he'd never actually cared about “Made in the USA,” we reminded. 

But we were promptly called “globalist Marxist groomer cucks,” all of which are hard to be at the same time.

Turns out, when Trump warned of “foreign invasions,” he meant engineers with PhDs.

Economic self-immolation.

So Hyundai, a South Korean company, says, “Okay, here’s $8 billion, here’s 8,000 jobs, here’s the biggest industrial investment in Georgia’s history.”

Hyundai built an EV battery manufacturing plant just outside of Savannah, that would employ thousands of Georgians and supply batteries to the company’s cars.

And Trump’s DHS response? “You’re under arrest… for doing exactly what we demanded”

It’s like begging your kid to clean their room, then grounding them because they did it.

ICE started by targeting four Latino workers at the plant; but this isn’t an administration or a president known for impulse control.

They wound up arresting nearly 500 people, including legal US citizens, legal South Korean workers, and various South Korean nationals setting up the plant who were allegedly here illegally after overstaying their visas, or whose specific work wasn’t covered by their visas. 

These weren’t undocumented immigrants sneaking across the border to take jobs. These weren’t gang members, or the worst of the worst.  These were South Korean engineers flown in to assemble the machines so Americans could have jobs later. This is how foreign-owned factories work, my easily misled racist imbeciles.

When Toyota builds a plant, they send some Japanese engineers. When BMW builds in South Carolina, some Germans come over. But Combover Caligula decided Hyundai workers are the new “caravan invasion.”

Forget “job creators”—Republicans are now job arresters. America just told South Korea: Thanks for the $8 billion, now get in the van. 

Congrats, Georgia — thanks to the Republican Party, you’ve now got 4 million square feet of empty concrete where no one knows how things work. Only Trump could deport the engineers before they teach us how to turn the machines on.

ICE: Immigration and Capitalism Eradication

And let’s not miss the pettiness here. Brian Kemp, Georgia’s governor, had bragged about this project as the crown jewel of job creation. This, however, was the same Brian Kemp who wouldn’t help Trump steal the 2020 election. He refused to find the 11,000-plus votes that Trump illegally demanded of his Secretary of State. 

But resisting corruption and lies, as we have learned, is now considered "woke” by deeply stupid white folks.

So naturally, Trump’s revenge is to kneecap Georgia’s biggest factory project and wreck his own “pro-manufacturing” narrative. It’s like watching a guy set his own house on fire just to irritate the neighbor he doesn’t like with smoke.

This is MAGA logic: “We want jobs in America, just not the people who create them.”

Make America Un-investable Again

So Trump outsources his own ties and steaks, but arrests Hyundai engineers for outsourcing skills.

Now South Korea, one of our closest allies, is furious. Even Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s conservative paper, dragged Trump. When Fox News Korea thinks you’re an idiot, you’re probably an idiot. 

They just pledged billions to invest in America, and now they’re wondering what every other trading partner on Earth is wondering: Why should we trust these people?

Which is fair, because apparently the fine print in every Trump “deal” is: “Step 1: give us billions. Step 2: we throw your workers in a detention center.” 

And let’s not forget: this factory was going to make electric vehicle batteries— which Trump hates, because they don’t run on coal fumes, hate and cholesterol. Sabotaging EV production wasn’t just an accident—it’s Trump kneecapping the future while giving mediocre caucasians the illusion of saving the past.

They keep promising to drain the swamp, and all they do is keep clogging the sewer. 

So congratulations, America. We’ve now arrested 475 engineers who were literally building our jobs, we paused a red state’s biggest investment project, we enraged a key ally, and we sent a global message: “Doing business in the U.S. is like playing Monopoly with a toddler who flips the board and urinates on the play money when he’s losing.”

South Korea asks, “Why should we invest in America?” 

Trump just answered: “You shouldn’t.”

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