Hali ya wasiwasi ya washirika wa Marekani yaendelea kutanda

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Korea Kusini inamtuma waziri wake wa mambo ya nje kwenda Marekani katika juhudi za kuzuia hali ya kutoridhika inayozidi kuongezeka kufuatia msako wa uhamiaji kwenye kiwanda huko Georgia, isiendelee kuwa mgogoro mkubwa unaoweza kudhuru kwa muda mrefu uhusiano kati yake na mshirika wake muhimu zaidi.

Waziri wa Mambo ya Nje, Cho Hyun, alitarajiwa kuondoka Jumatatu jioni kwa saa za huko Seoul kuelekea Washington, DC, kulingana na maafisa wa huko Korea Kusini.

Masaa machache kabla ya safari hiyo, serikali ilitangaza kuwa takriban Wakorea Kusini 300 waliokamatwa katika msako uliofanywa na Idara ya Uhamiaji na Forodha ya Marekani (ICE) Alhamisi iliyopita kwenye kiwanda cha pamoja cha Hyundai na LG huko kusini mwa Georgia, watarejeshwa Korea kwa ndege ya kukodi, baada ya mazungumzo na Marekani.

Msemaji wa Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje alisema kuwa ratiba ya ndege hiyo bado haijapangwa rasmi, lakini serikali inalenga kuwarudisha raia hao haraka iwezekanavyo.

Msako huo ni miongoni mwa mikubwa zaidi kufanywa na vyombo vya uhamiaji vya Marekani katika miaka ya karibuni. Picha za wafanyakazi – wengi wao wakiwa Wakorea – wakiwa wamefungwa pingu na kupelekwa mahabusu zimeenea sana nchini Korea Kusini na zimezua ukosoaji mkubwa, hasa wakati huu ambapo nchi hiyo imekuwa ikiwekeza mabilioni ya dola Marekani, mengi yao ikiwa ni kwa msukumo wa Rais wa Marekani, Donald Trump.

Picha kutoka kwenye video iliyotolewa na Idara ya Uhamiaji na Forodha ya Marekani inaonyesha wafanyakazi wa kiwanda wakisubiri kufungwa pingu miguuni katika kiwanda cha magari ya umeme cha Hyundai Motor Group, kilichopo Ellabell, Georgia, tarehe 4 Septemba, 2025.

Mwezi uliopita, kampuni kubwa kutoka Korea Kusini zikiwemo Korean Air na Hyundai zilitangaza mikataba ya mabilioni ya dola nchini Marekani kufuatia mkutano wa viongozi wa mataifa hayo mawili.

Sio jambo la kushangaza kuwaona waandamanaji wa kihafidhina nchini Korea Kusini wakipeperusha bendera za Marekani katika maandamano yao ya mada mbalimbali.

Song Seok-ha, mwenye umri wa miaka 67, ambaye amekuwa akiandamana kila siku kwa kipindi cha miaka mitano karibu na Ubalozi wa Marekani mjini Seoul akitaka kuimarishwa kwa ushirikiano kati ya Marekani na Korea Kusini, alieleza wasiwasi wake kuhusu madhara ya muda mrefu katika uhusiano huo.

“Naweza kuelewa kama Marekani inawafukuza wahamiaji haramu, lakini safari hii imeonekana kuwa kali kupita kiasi… Ninahofia kwamba jambo hili linaweza kuleta mpasuko katika uhusiano wa Marekani na Korea Kusini,” alisema.

Haijabainika wazi ni aina gani ya visa waliyo nayo raia wa Korea waliokuwa wakifanya kazi katika kiwanda hicho. Baadhi ya watu 475 waliokamatwa waliingia Marekani kinyume cha sheria, kwa mujibu wa Steven Schrank, afisa maalum wa Uchunguzi wa Usalama wa Ndani, huku wengine wakiwa wamekiuka masharti ya visa zao kwa kuzidisha muda wa kukaa.

Wengine waliingia Marekani kwa kutumia Mpango wa Kuondoa Masharti ya Visa (Visa Waiver Program), unaoruhusu watu kusafiri kwa ajili ya utalii au biashara kwa hadi siku 90, lakini walipofika walikatazwa kufanya kazi.

Wakili wa masuala ya uhamiaji wa jimbo la Georgia, Charles Kuck, aliiambia CNN kuwa wateja wake wawili walikamatwa wakati wa msako huo baada ya kuwasili kutoka Korea Kusini kwa kutumia mpango huo wa visa bila masharti. Mmoja alifika Marekani mwezi Agosti, na mwingine alikuja wiki chache zilizopita, alisema.

Ingawa hakuna raia yeyote wa Korea aliyekuwa akifanya kazi moja kwa moja na kampuni ya Hyundai, takriban watu 50 kati yao walikuwa wafanyakazi wa kampuni ya LG Energy Solutions. Wengine 250, ambao wengi wao ni raia wa Korea, walikuwa wafanyakazi wa kampuni ya HL-GA Battery Company LLC, ambayo inafanya kazi chini ya Hyundai na LG.

Katika taarifa kwa CNN, msemaji wa LG Energy Solution alisema kuwa kampuni hiyo inashirikiana na mamlaka husika katika mchakato huo:
“Tutatoa juhudi zetu zote kuhakikisha kurudi kwa usalama na haraka kwa wafanyakazi wetu na wale wa washirika wetu.”

Alipoulizwa Jumatatu kuhusu hali ya visa za wafanyakazi waliokamatwa, kampuni hiyo iliambia CNN kuwa:
“Hali ya visa za watu waliokamatwa bado inachunguzwa, kwa hiyo hatujui bado.”

CNN imewasiliana na Wizara ya Mambo ya Nje ya Marekani, Idara ya Usalama wa Ndani, Idara ya Uhamiaji na Forodha (ICE), na Hyundai kwa ajili ya kupata maoni yao.

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South Korea’s top diplomat going to US as immigration raid spikes tension between allies​

By
Brad Lendon
,
Yoonjung Seo
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Mike Valerio
, Marianna Kim
Updated 12 hr ago

South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun ...
Seoul, South Korea —
South Korea is dispatching its top diplomat to the United States as it tries to prevent swirling discontent over an immigration raid at a factory in Georgia from ballooning into a crisis that could do long-term damage to relations with its most important ally.
Foreign Affairs Minister Cho Hyun was scheduled to leave Monday evening local time for Washington, DC, officials in Seoul said.
Hours earlier, the government announced that some 300 South Koreans who were detained in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid last Thursday on the Hyundai-LG joint factory in southern Georgia will return to Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations with the US.

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson said the chartered plane schedule has not been set yet, but the government is trying to bring back the nationals as soon as possible.
The raid was one of the largest by US immigration enforcement agencies in recent years. Images of workers, many of them Korean, being shackled and led away into detention have circulated widely across South Korea and sparked criticism at a time when the country is pouring multi-billion-dollar investments into the US, much of it at the behest of US President Donald Trump.

This image from video provided by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group’s electric vehicle plant, in Ellabell, Georgia, on September 4, 2025.
Corey Bullard/AP
Last month South Korea business heavyweights including Korean Air and Hyundai unveiled multibillion-dollar deals in the United States following the summit between the two countries’ leaders.

The plant in Georgia, which is supposed to be operating next year, is a massive investment for the state and projected to employ up to 8,500 people when complete.
What the foreign minister’s role in the process would be was unclear, but the government of President Lee Jae Myung was trying to quickly contain simmering discontent in the country about how its nationals were being treated by US law enforcement.
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The spokesperson for the opposition People Power Party – a conservative party that usually speaks favorably of the US – called the raid “an unprecedented diplomatic disaster.”

“This is the United States expressing its diplomatic dissatisfaction with South Korea in the strongest possible way,” said spokesperson Song Eon-seog, adding that Lee “must clearly explain where this diplomatic breakdown began.”

Kim Jae-yeon, South Korea’s Progressive Party leader, called the raid “a breach of trust.”
“President Trump should apologize for what happened and promise measures to prevent recurrence,” Kim said.

‘Truly painful’​

Thursday’s raid was still the top story on a range of South Korean newspapers and websites on Monday morning, with stories questioning Washington’s treatment of South Korean nationals and whether business and diplomatic relations could suffer permanent damage.

But the blowback from the raid appears to go deeper than business deals, with some seeing it as an affront to a bilaterial friendship forged over more than seven decades since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
“Seeing our own people being mercilessly detained and put into detention centers in a country we regard as a friend was truly painful,” said a visiting professor of business at a South Korean university who asked not to be named.
“This could have been my family, myself, or even my friends, and I felt a strong sense of unfairness,” the professor said.
The images even caused shock among die-hard supporters of the US.

It is not unusual to see conservative protesters in Soth Korea waving US flags at demonstrations for various causes.
Song Seok-ha, 67, who has been protesting every day for five years near the US Embassy in Seoul to call for a stronger US-South Korea alliance, was concerned about long-term damage to relations.
“I can understand if the US is deporting illegal immigrants, but this time it seemed too extreme… I’m worried this might put a crack in the US-South Korea alliance,” he said.
It’s unclear what kind of visas the Korean nationals working at the plant had. Some of the 475 detained entered the US illegally, according to Steven Schrank, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge, while others had overstayed their visas.

Others were in here under the US Visa Waiver Program which allows workers to travel for tourism or business for up to 90 days, and had subsequently been prohibited from working.
Georgia immigration attorney Charles Kuck told CNN two of his clients were detained at the raid after having arrived from South Korea under a visa waiver. One client arrived in the US in August, and the other arrived several weeks ago, he said.
While none of the Korean nationals worked for Hyundai, about 50 of them worked for LG Energy Solutions. Another 250 mostly Korean national employees worked for HL-GA Battery Company LLC, which operates under Hyundai and LG.
In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for LG Energy Solution said the company was cooperating with the process: “We will commit our best efforts to ensure the safe and prompt return of our employees and those of our partners.”

When asked Monday about the visa status of the detained workers, the company told CNN, “The visa status of the detained individuals is under investigation, so we don’t know yet.”
CNN has reached out to the State Department, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Hyundai for comment.
CNN’s Amanda Musa contributed to this report.

 

[Msarendo]

Fukuza wote

 

[Xi Jinping]

Walichagua wenyewe kuwa vibaraka wa Marekani acha yawakute

Wajapan na Wakorea Kusini watajifunza the hard way kuwa Marekani sio taifa la maana

Wanapelekwa pelekwa sana na Marekani mpaka unashindwa kuelewa viongozi wao wana akili kweli?

Kwenye nchi zao wameruhusu kambi za jeshi za Wamarekani, wajeshi wa America wanawabaka wanawake wa Kikorea na wa Kijapan, serikali zao ziko kimya wanaiogopa Marekani

Wao wakiwa Marekani wanafuatwa hadi site na maafisa wanakamatwa kama ming'ombe

Mijapan na Mikorea Kusini misenge sana most of them ni anti-China badala ya kuwa anti-America ​

 

[Mi mi]

Walichagua wenyewe kuwa vibaraka wa Marekani acha yawakute

Wajapan na Wakorea Kusini watajifunza the hard way kuwa Marekani sio taifa la maana

Wanapelekwa pelekwa sana na Marekani mpaka unashindwa kuelewa viongozi wao wana akili kweli?

Kwenye nchi zao wameruhusu kambi za jeshi za Wamarekani, wajeshi wa America wanawabaka wanawake wa Kikorea na wa Kijapan, serikali zao ziko kimya wanaiogopa Marekani

Wao wakiwa Marekani wanafuatwa hadi site na maafisa wanakamatwa kama ming'ombe

Mijapan na Mikorea Kusini misenge sana most of them ni anti-China badala ya kuwa anti-America ​

Naiunga mkono marekani kuidhibiti Japan marekani hapa wapo sahihi kwa amani yao na mataifa ya Asia.

 

[uberimae fidei]

Walichagua wenyewe kuwa vibaraka wa Marekani acha yawakute

Wajapan na Wakorea Kusini watajifunza the hard way kuwa Marekani sio taifa la maana

Wanapelekwa pelekwa sana na Marekani mpaka unashindwa kuelewa viongozi wao wana akili kweli?

Kwenye nchi zao wameruhusu kambi za jeshi za Wamarekani, wajeshi wa America wanawabaka wanawake wa Kikorea na wa Kijapan, serikali zao ziko kimya wanaiogopa Marekani

Wao wakiwa Marekani wanafuatwa hadi site na maafisa wanakamatwa kama ming'ombe

Mijapan na Mikorea Kusini misenge sana most of them ni anti-China badala ya kuwa anti-America ​

Bila kua mdau mwenza wa maendeleo hiyo Korea kusini Hadi ungekuta masikini sana.marekani kawasaidia sana kufika apo walipo.

 

[Xi Jinping]

Naiunga mkono marekani kuidhibiti Japan marekani hapa wapo sahihi kwa amani yao na mataifa ya Asia.

Japan ni the U.S vassal state huu ni ujinga kwa sovereign state kuendeshwa na nyingine.

Wajapan wanaendeshwa kwa faida ya Marekani.

Walitandikwa atomic bombs mwishoni mwa WW2 hilo moja.

Pili, Japan ilipokuwa inaibukia vizuri kiuchumi na kiteknolojia miaka ya 1980 kukaribia kuizidi Marekani, Marekani wakaipiga na Plaza Accord Agreement Japan ikashushwa.

Leo viwanda vya Japan vinazorota ukilinganisha na China, ila wangeamua kusimama wenyewe naamini Japan ingekuwa mbali kiviwanda na hata nguvu za kijeshi.

Mmarekani huwa hataki free competition.

Ndio maana anapambana juu chini dhidi ya China akiwatumia Japan na S.K kuizuia China isikue kiuchumi au kiteknolojia ila wanafeli.

Wajapan walizuiwa kuiuzia China baadhi ya chips kwa sababu ya masharti waliyopewa na Marekani.

Matokeo China inafanya vizuri kwenye tech ya chip wanazalisha domestically Wajapan wanakosa soko.

Bado kama mijinga Mijapan inaendea kuinyenyekea na kuendeshwa na Marekani

Hata kuna baadhi ya mambo ya kiusalama katika taifa lao hawawezi kutoa maamuzi mpaka wasikilize Washington wanasemaje. ​

 

[Xi Jinping]

Bila kua mdau mwenza wa maendeleo hiyo Korea kusini Hadi ungekuta masikini sana.marekani kawasaidia sana kufika apo walipo.

Kuna tofauti kubwa kati ya kuwa mdau mwenza wa maendeleo na kuwa vassal state au kibaraka

Kuna miradi mingi ya Korea Kusini ya uwekezaji imekwama nchini Marekani. Mfano miradi ya semiconductor, EV battery manufacturing, shipbuilding na real estate.

Ila bado wanaendelea kupoteza resources zao Marekani kisa wanainyenyekea America

Wanalazimishwa kuwekeza kwenye manufacturing sector katika nchi (Marekani) ambayo ina production cost kubwa, milolongo mirefu ya kupata vibali, tatizo la ruzuku na uhaba wa skilled personnel!

Kihistoria Marekani imejengwa na mataifa ya Ulaya ila huwezi kuona ikizinyenyekea nchi za Ulaya​

 

[Washawasha]

Na bado
Nalog off Z

 

[Smart911]

Pole yao sana...


Cc: Mahondaw

 

[subiri uone]

Kuna tofauti kubwa kati ya kuwa mdau mwenza wa maendeleo na kuwa vassal state au kibaraka

Kuna miradi mingi ya Korea Kusini ya uwekezaji imekwama nchini Marekani. Mfano miradi ya semiconductor, EV battery manufacturing, shipbuilding na real estate.

Ila bado wanaendelea kupoteza resources zao Marekani kisa wanainyenyekea America

Wanalazimishwa kuwekeza kwenye manufacturing sector katika nchi (Marekani) ambayo ina production cost kubwa, milolongo mirefu ya kupata vibali, tatizo la ruzuku na uhaba wa skilled personnel!

Kihistoria Marekani imejengwa na mataifa ya Ulaya ila huwezi kuona ikizinyenyekea nchi za Ulaya​

Hilo nikweli mpaka wanamkumbusha Trump Asili yake.