Liam BoothSep 16, 2025
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Hey by the way South Koreans are now reporting they were put in chains and treated like animals for 7 days after ICE raided the multi-billion dollar plant they were setting up for the benefit of 8500 high paying American jobs.

They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like animals.

It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.

Sep 15, 2025 at 4:26amWeb
Show threadManfredSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid animal shouldn’t be treated like ICE does either!
My favorite chart attached.
Show threadVeeSep 15, 2025

@titanmanfred @QasimRashid

...Slowpokes!

Show threadWinter TrabexSep 15, 2025

@QasimRashid

It's about some people satisfying their sadistic impulses by punishing others.

Show threadUkeleleEricSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid it wasn't even about that. Fascism thrives on arbitrary terror to keep people in line.
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid Apparently most of them were on business visas since it is hard for Koreans to get work visas, and it is fuzzy what you are allowed to do on a business visa even if it is your home company that pays you and not an American company… so that becomes the ICE excuse.
Show threadCassandrichSep 15, 2025
@toriver @QasimRashid That's not even a viable excuse. It might be if they had gone in with particular names of people suspected of working on business visas and detained those particular people, but they violently arrested everyone on the basis of race with no consideration of whether they actually had any immigation violations, and most of them did not even have anything you could stretch to be a violation.
Show threadxs4me2Sep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid The KKK is back from the gutter…
Show threadChucklesSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid it's a shakedown: neither Hyundai nor South Korea has "invested" in his shitcoins. (Ed: Hyundai, not Samsung, though Samsung and LG had better watch their asses too)
Show threadLRSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid it was never about doing it right. it was always about running a macabre unsupervised shitshow.
Show threadRandy CC is RealSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid The Trump felon 34X just wants the money. South Korea gave lots of money to Trump-o-matic and in return they were told thanks for the money now get out. Not about jobs.
Show threadEstarriol, Terrorist DragonSep 15, 2025

@QasimRashid

and they about to find out a truth, Koreans are not big on foregiveness....

Show threadWooShellSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid I really hope Hyundai pulls out of that project as a consequence, citing political and legal instability as a reason.
Show threadCheapPontoonSep 15, 2025

@WooShell

They've invested too much. Their management would get blamed. They'd need to slow it down and then sell off the parts a bit at a time.

Show threadDamiano GacíkSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid This is pure racism in action. Absolutely no logic, just the authorities showing their teeth to anyone who doesn’t fit their “image.”
Show threadFernandoSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid Nero is burning Rome
Show threadUnredacted Epstein files nowSep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid Whatever their logic, the consequences will not be minor. Major investments undergo lots of political risk analysis, and the subsequent risk insurance premiums have probably shot through the roof. International ompanies are going to think long and hard before investing in the USA.
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Sep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid no country should help the US right now, leave it to wallow in it's own bigotry
Show threadTuukka RSep 15, 2025

@Lazarou

Does any country help US, then?

Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Sep 15, 2025
@Tuuktuuk my country bends over itself to help the US, this week we're indulging the Peado the Americans have elected as their leader.
Show threadJoe Brockmeier (@jzb)Sep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid One thing I haven't seen mentioned much if at all -- ISTM that, in addition to all of the other nastiness, this was corporate sabotage: the administration picking off a Tesla competitor, knowing that abusing these folks would lead to a plant closure/plant not being finished.
Show threadJimmySep 15, 2025
@QasimRashid Darker even than that. It was about creating federally funded Brownshirts. Incognito "law enforcement" were arresting people in Portland during Trump 1.0. This is 2.0.
Show threadMJ MuseSep 16, 2025
@QasimRashid personally I hope Georgia looses the Hyundai plant. Too much of Georgia loves the Don. ( Sorry 'Lanta )
Show threadUrzlSep 16, 2025
@MJmusicinears @QasimRashid Didn't Hyundai already announce that? They lost something like $3 billion on abandoning the unfinished project but decided there's nothing here worth dealing with this admin.
Show threadMJ MuseSep 16, 2025
@gooba42 @QasimRashid Good 👍
Show threadAmbulocetusSep 16, 2025
@QasimRashid Sure, we lose 8500 future jobs, but on the bright side, Elon Musk can now buy a slightly used battery factory for pennies.