Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid
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The article discusses how Stephen Miller's immigration quota likely led to the arrest of Korean workers in an immigration raid, sparking widespread anger in South Korea and highlighting the tension between nationalist policies and international relations.
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Inept authoritarianism - the worse of both worlds.
It's just too bad those are our only choices at the moment.
Read The Wages of Destruction.
The Nazis were economically inept. This part of fascism’s history—its incompetence–is often overwritten by stories of gleaming German engineering and Italian timeliness.
The most loyal people will be the people who lack skill since they only have the position due to the higher ups ensuring loyalty.
I mean, Mussolini did try to ban pasta in Italy...
https://bigthink.com/the-past/pasta-italy-mussolini/
> According to LG Energy Solution, construction at the plant will remain on hold until the first half of 2026, reported WJCL, delaying by several months when U.S. workers can begin jobs at the facility.
ICE took away the workers that were delivering and installing equipment, which introduced delays into the construction process.
The government of South Korea is forming a "task force" with the US embassy in Seoul to try to get visa procedures fixed so this doesn't happen again. "Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said the body will be led by director-level officials, emphasizing that its purpose is to facilitate practical consultations rather than political declarations." The view from the Korean side is worth reading. [1] This may reduce Korean investment in the US.[2]
[1] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20250916/korea-u...
[2] https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/09/south-korea-v...
“Other attorneys and I are hearing from companies in Asia and Europe who say, ‘Maybe we should hold off on big investments in the U.S. for at least three years.’”
With the tariffs it's already going to be hard to get the equipment you need into the US without spending a significant amount of money. But now you run the risk of the US arresting and deporting all your skilled workers setting up and managing that factory? No thank you.
Absolutely braindead move.
[1] https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-16/busines...
So now we know clearly that nationalist xenophobia the true most important priority for this administration. Or at least, more important than either the domestic economic interests of their own base or strategic national security interests.
It is a little more complicated than that. It is what around 40% of American population want. (Then another 9.5% or so voted for Trump based on the price of eggs, the fact that the other candidate was a woman, and so on).
According to Wikipedia[0]:
Trump/Vance received 77,302,580 votes (49.8% of votes cast)
Harris/Walz received 75,017,613 votes (48.3% of votes cast)
Total votes cast: 152,320,193.
Those in the US eligible to vote[1]: ~250-260 million.
77,302,580/250,000,000 == ~0.3 or 30%.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
[1] https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2020/... [PDF]
Just now? The man entered politics and the first thing he said was how he was going to build a wall to keep the "criminal, diseased, rapist" Mexicans out. Yeah, of course this administration is preoccupied with nationalist xenophobia.
>The Democrat [sic] Party does not fight for, care about, or represent American citizens. It is an entity devoted exclusively [his emphasis] to the defense of hardened criminals, gang-bangers, and illegal, alien killers and terrorists. The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.
Hope they don't try to ban it.
Especially the ones that involve shooting the US in its own proverbial economic foot, for ideological reasons.
Korean politics (like everywhere else) has gotten incredibly polarised in the last few years, but this incident managed to unite them for a little while before they devolved back to blaming each other as for why this had happened.
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