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Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
Analysts note that such a statement is likely meaningless to companies when Miller runs the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and the focus remains on meeting arrest quotas and blocking high-skilled workers from the United States. “There was widespread anger across the political spectrum in South Korea at the behavior of the U.S. authorities, with one newspaper referring to the workers being treated like ‘prisoners of war’ and another describing Koreans as feeling stabbed in the back by their closest ally,” reported The Guardian. Even after it became evident that ICE had made a mistake and had caused an international incident, the agency wanted to put the South Koreans in chains when transporting them to the airport to depart the country, according to Kuck and media reports.
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