Whoopi Goldberg rages at ICE for arresting workers illegal working at EV plant intended for Americans

“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg raged at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday for arresting hundreds of South Korean nationals for illegally working at an electric vehicle plant in the U.S.

Law enforcement arrested 475 illegal immigrants, most of whom were South Korean nationals, and placed them into ICE detention at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Ellabell, Georgia, that conducted “unlawful work practices.” Goldberg sided with those arrested and baselessly accused ICE of just rounding up the illegal immigrants for no good reason.

“Did you know they were here to build a plant to create American jobs? And they rounded them up. I mean, let’s be real. Let’s be real. This isn’t about sanctuary cities, this isn’t about rounding up rough, bad people. This is about y’all being pissed off about something. Because if this was about rounding up people who were bad for the country, you would all be doing a different kind of job,” Goldberg said.

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Goldberg claimed that President Donald Trump’s administration asked these workers to come in, though the plant opened during former President Joe Biden’s administration. The former president announced the opening of the plant on Oct. 25, 2022, where he promised that the new investment would create 8,000 jobs for American workers.

Contrary to Goldberg’s claims, ICE has arrested thousands of illegal immigrants with heinous criminal records, including murder, rape and sexual abuse since the beginning of Trump’s second term. At a new facility in Louisiana, 26 of the 51 detained illegal immigrants were convicted of murder, eight were convicted of rape and nine were convicted of sexual assault against minors, the Daily Caller News Foundation first reported.

Steven Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security investigations for Georgia, stated during a Friday press conference that investigators conducted interviews and collected substantial evidence over a period of several months about the plant’s unlawful activity. They obtained a warrant by a judge to raid the plant, which led to the arrests.

Some of the illegal immigrants unlawfully crossed the border, while others entered through a visa waiver or overstayed their visas, Schrank said at the news conference. The raid at the plant was the “largest single site enforcement operation” in the history of Homeland Security operations across the U.S.”

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