'They stormed the place, detaining everyone': Latinos recount huge ICE raid at Hyundai plant
Source: CNN US
Updated Sep 7, 2025, 9:38 PM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2025, 9:32 PM ET
Ellabell, Georgia — “I have everything (in order), I have no reason to rush,” Luz Dary Suárez’s husband told her over the phone during Thursday’s surprise immigration raid at a Hyundai manufacturing plant a quiet southeast part of Georgia. Suárez, a migrant from Colombia, had warned her husband about the massive immigration enforcement raid that she had heard was going down at the plant. But he had reassured her that he would be OK as he had a valid permit to work in the US.
Despite this, he was detained and remains in the custody of US immigration authorities, awaiting a review of his case, like other workers at the plant who said that their status in the US was not taken into consideration by authorities during the raid.
More than 500 federal, state and local agents participated in the operation that ended with the arrest of 475 people in Ellabell, approximately 25 miles west of Savannah, Georgia. The small community was shaken by what was the largest raid so far in the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown on US workplaces. ICE officials said officers spoke with each worker to determine who was in the US legally, and that some were allowed to leave. But family members interviewed by CNN say that people with valid work permits were among those arrested.
Suárez, who arrived in the country with her partner and two children almost two years ago said she has an asylum application pending with US immigration authorities. But according to her husband, who didn’t want to give his full name – the agents refused to take his documents into account before detaining him.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/us/hyundai-ice-raid-legal-latinos-detained-intl-latam
That raid resulted in not just hundreds of South Koreans being swept up, but included many Latinos as well. The South Korean government came in and "saved" their people. There's really no one to "save" these Latinos.
There are STILL too many people out there who think that NONE of this "applies to them"... until it DOES happen "to them". They refuse to even entertain the possibility. It seems like a male "I can handle it" macho thing.
There was a Philly Inky article over the weekend about a whole town here in PA with this "in denial" phenomena -
by Julia Terruso and Ximena Conde
Published Sept. 7, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
HAZLETON, Pa. — Nicolas Diaz looked out at the empty sidewalks along Wyoming Street, one of this former coal region’s main commercial corridors, and took it as proof that the president he supported is delivering on promises to keep his city safe.
Diaz, a 78-year-old retiree originally from the Dominican Republic, voted for President Donald Trump last year. He blamed Democrats for open borders that he thinks led to crime, including in the city he has called home for a decade, where he said an influx of undocumented people took jobs that should have gone to local residents and U.S. citizens.
“They’re not coming anymore,” Diaz said from beneath the cover of a storefront awning on a recent drizzly afternoon. “The ones that are here are in hiding.” As Diaz defended Trump’s policies as making his community safer, his friend Robin Rubin interjected. “Right now, there are parents who are afraid to go drop off their kids at school,” Rubin, 77, challenged him. “No matter what other people say, that’s not good.”
Hazleton is the only one of Pennsylvania’s three largest majority-Latino cities to vote for Trump. The others, Reading and Allentown, supported him with about 35% of the vote.
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It's difficult to break through that idiotic mindset and blaming Democrats for not being able to untangle what is essentially a psychological and sociological pathos, is a fools errand.
Kamala Harris, the daughter of 2 immigrants who had NO generational history in the U.S., quickly managed to "get it", warned the nation, and it was waved away, with people insisting that "economics" was the only answer to fight for, while watching their loved ones (or themselves), dragged away.
I just saw this OP this morning and it is TRUTH - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220616896
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... since the Latino Catholic priests are all "we're-anti-abortion-therefore-the-Dems-are-from-Satan" just like they have been for the last 50 years.
I don't believe the Latinos are fascists, not at all. But they're being lied to. They're led to believe that the Repukes will protect them when the time comes, and we all know they won't.
