https://x.com/koryodynasty/status/1967955432221315363

1/ Shocking new testimonies reveal systematic torture-like abuse at Georgia ICE facility on Korean workers: pregnant woman fearing for unborn child, handcuff burns, forced medical injections without consent, and staff neglecting workers having seizures and medical collapses.

2/ Yonhap News TV obtained exclusive photos showing a Korean worker’s wrist from the Georgia detention facility. The images reveal clear red burn marks caused by handcuffs/cable ties. Worker testified that “quite a few people” suffered similar injuries.

3/ Testimonies also reveal forced medical procedures. One worker claims that during health checks before formal facility admission, despite refusing all tests, facility staff forcibly administered a tuberculosis injection against their will.

4/ “After receiving the jab, my skin swelled up and I was very anxious.” Another said: “I remember a friend among us whose arm swelled up after getting injected. He said he didn’t know what it was and got the shot. He said they stabbed him with a needle in upper left wrist area.”

5/ Medical emergencies were allegedly ignored by facility staff. A worker collapsed due to worsening chronic sleep disorders, with symptoms deteriorating during detention, eventually leading to serious breathing difficulties. Staff apparently just watched, did nothing.

6/ Meanwhile, MBC revealed that a pregnant Korean engineer was among those detained in what she describes as torture-like conditions. She was working on computer tasks in the factory office when ICE agents forcibly took her away without explanation.

7/ The pregnant engineer held a legal B1 visa specifically for battery equipment installation work. She was scheduled to return to Korea this very week after completing her assigned work at the facility

8/ She was arrested on charges of illegal residence and held in the detention facility in a red prison uniform. She testified: “I appealed that my visa was still valid, but they didn’t even pretend to listen.”

9/ Detention conditions were horrific: over 30 people were crammed into a single room with just 3 sinks and 4 toilets in an open area. Privacy was non-existent, creating degrading conditions for female detainees “who were menstruating”.

10/ When she informed guards she was pregnant, they only responded that she would be moved to “a room with slightly better conditions”. She witnessed another female detainee having seizures and being neglected, fearing for her own unborn child should a medical emergency happen.

11/ “I really thought they were going to kill someone, and I was terrified,” she said. “I was so shocked that I wasn’t having morning sickness anymore and worried something had happened to my baby.”

12/ Food was apparently completely inedible. “Even the bread smelled bad and sour,” she said. “I couldn’t eat it.”

13/ Only after returning to South Korea and getting checked at a hospital could she finally breathe a sigh of relief when she learned that her baby was healthy. She says she has nightmares every night now, and “really wants to sue… in the country of lawsuits”.

14/ South Korea’s foreign ministry has announced it will investigate these abuse cases and will raise issues with the US if necessary. The mounting physical evidence and testimonies paint a picture of systematic human rights violations at the ICE facility.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    it’s darkly comedic how the braying hordes that make up the bulk of his support are also tanking the economic plans to keep this country going and also subjecting innocent people to horrific conditions and crimes against humanity furthing the tanking of the economic plan.

    There’s no control over these idiots and we’re going to see some maga brained heavyweight be the reason we’re getting cut off from the rest of the civilized war and potentially even thrown into war. There’s a whole chain of command that doesn’t need to be rubberstamping missile strikes on Venezuelan fisherman, but everyone is either happy to stick to the script or are jumping at the chance to push the agenda further right because no one is actually trying to stop anything. Trumps not going to be all like “hey now, we need these investments” because he doesn’t care, his mind is on something else, and he wont hear about it until some reporter stops him to ask before talking about the rose garden ballroom, like he gives a shit about dancing.

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      Speedrunning the Nazi collapse because the gringos at large are legitimately too stupid and violent to even be efficient jackbooted thugs