Well, now as was expected, any Latino individual in the United States is legally considered an a possible illegal alien and subject to detainment for an unspecified amount of time.
ICE target is shot and killed after injuring officer in Chicago-area traffic stop, DHS says
Information is sparse at the moment. But I’m going to guess the ICE agents were out of uniform and masked, and the guy actually had the legal right to be in the country.
The Korea Times is reporting the typical Trump-era squalid conditions and human rights violations by ICE against those South Korean Hyundai workers. It’s very disturbing. No wonder not a single one of them agreed to come back.
That would not work because the Americans teaching English in South Korea are overwhelmingly anti-Trump.
Also, to match Trump, it wouldn’t do to just email the Americans teachers, politely asking them to exit South Korea in the next week or two. You would have to arrest and shackle them. Also, I googled to find out what jail food is like in South Korea and found this:
I doubt the South Korean authorities are cruel enough to get to the point where Trump would have sympathy for a bunch of recent American college graduates looking for a constructive international experience.
A transperson, Angel Jenkel, came from the US to Canada to visit their boyfriend, now fiancé, on a six months visitor visa. Then the boyfriend got sick and they became primary care-giver, and they also became afraid of returning to the US after Trump began imposing his anti-trans regime.
So they overstayed their visa.
Canadian immigration officials eventually came across the situation and after a hearing, ordered that Jenkel be deported to the US.
They applied for judicial review in the Federal Court.
Federal Court judge allowed the application and sent it back for a re-hearing by the immigration officials.
This point in the CBC article seems highly pertinent:
That’s not the point - the point would be to remove Americans from South Korea and send them back to America. The politics of those Americans is entirely irrelevant. They’re Americans, they have to go.
I have a good friend who moved to South Korea many years ago to teach English. He’s now married to a Korean woman and is himself fluent in the language. In any hypothetical scenario as you describe, he would be very low on the deportation priority list.
But based on what he says about the culture and the political situation, it seems highly unlikely they’d proceed like that, even for the recent arrivals whose removal would be easier. It’s not exactly unthinkable, but he just doesn’t see them reacting that way.
I’ll ping him again to see if he’s willing to go more in depth as to the reasons.