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> "One of the agents can be heard telling workers they had a search warrant for the entire site and asked that construction “be ceased immediately.”" It's a $7
by perihelions 1y ago
> "One of the agents can be heard telling workers they had a search warrant for the entire site and asked that construction “be ceased immediately.”"
It's a $7.6 billion factory that produces exclusively electric vehicles, employs "1,400+" (ultimately 8,500 [b]) and is claimed as the "largest economic project in Georgia history". By way of background—here's the wiki,
[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Group_Metaplant_America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Group_Metaplant_...
And (lots) more background from IEEE Spectrum (someone had recently posted to HN),
[b] https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metaplant-georgia https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metaplant-georgia ("Hyundai’s Metaplant Seeks Hard-Working Robots")
- jsiwns 1y ago[flagged]
- guywithahat 1y ago[flagged]
- kennywinker 1y agoYou believe them?? The incentives to lie are massive, and the consequences almost non-existent. ICE, by their own account, has a pretty solid track record now of arresting people en masse, to pump up numbers, and then sorting out who is actually working illegally much later… after dehumanizing and incarcerating people unjustly. So, i don’t believe their numbers and i don’t believe that they know who they have arrested.
- jsiwns 1y ago[flagged]
- crooked-v 1y agoIf they're telling the truth. Keep in mind that ICE is already violating a court to not engage in racial profiling in California (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-court-order-ice-targeting-people-race-not-enforced-why-rcna227792 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-court-order...).
- LeafItAlone 1y agoI am the richest person in the world! I’m objectively not, but I claim to be. I trust nothing coming out of a federal level government agency under this administration. They have proven time and time again to lie and then double down when wrong.
- kennywinker 1y agoI believe they could have detained 450 people. I do not believe they found 450 people working there illegally. More than a little skepticism is required when reading a state-run media feed.
- gorbachev 1y agoI bet rather they detained 450 people who didn't carry their papers with them. This has been the pattern of all of the ICE raids anywhere. If you don't look American and don't have a US passport or a valid visa on your person, to the jail you go. They routinely arrest latino US citizens.
- inquirerGeneral 1y ago[dead]
- gamblor956 1y agoICE has also made a number of claims about "illegals" detained in California...who were actually U.S. citizens by birth. When confronted with this, they then attempted to claim that those citizens actually attacked ICE agents. When confronted with video evidence to the contrary, they attempted to pursue charges, and have failed in almost all cases. ICE and ATF claims aren't worth the air they use up to say.
- ranger_danger 1y agoThe story says it's a battery factory, not an EV assembly plant, and that it is currently under construction, and does not yet produce anything.
- warkdarrior 1y agoYes, but to the current US regime any battery larger than a AA one is a threat to national security.
- 1oooqooq 1y agothreat to national bribe security
- skeledrew 1y ago[flagged]
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- inquirerGeneral 1y ago[dead]