Protest at the Hyundai plant condemns racist raid and demands an end to the mobilization of the National Guard to act as a deportation force
A coalition of organizations including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, ICE Breakers, Savannah Democratic Socialists of America, Sav4Palestine, and YourSpace Collective, will hold an emergency protest at the Hyundai plant outside Savannah. The protest condemns the recent ICE raid at the LG Energy Solution and Hyundai Motor Group plant—one of the largest in ICE history—and Governor Brian Kemp’s complicity in Trump’s authoritarian agenda.
The protest took place at 2 PM on Saturday, September 6, at the Hyundai plant, located at 700 Genesis Dr., in Ellabell, GA.
This brutal raid has resulted in the detention of nearly 500 workers, tearing them from their jobs and immediately separating them from their families. Those arrested are now being held in ICE detention. Initial reports include the arrest of a pregnant woman and the physical brutalization of workers. Many of those detained were Korean workers, leading the South Korean Foreign Ministry to issue a statement of concern.
“This protest is a necessary and direct response to the racist war on immigrants and the working class, spearheaded by the Trump administration, with the full cooperation of Governor Brian Kemp,” said César Mosquera, an organizer based in Savannah with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
He continued, “This horrific raid in Georgia is a continuation of the current administration’s violent assault on immigrant communities, which will only escalate with Kemp’s announcement to mobilize the National Guard to work in conjunction with racist ICE operations, transforming the National Guard into a deportation force designed to terrorize and tear apart our communities.”
Organizers drew a direct line from the statehouse to the workplace raid, pointing to Kemp’s recent policies as enabling this escalation.
“Just weeks after Governor Kemp announced he would deploy the National Guard to support ICE, we see the devastating result: hundreds of workers kidnapped from their jobs,” continued Mosquera. “This is not a coincidence; it is a coordinated strategy. While Kemp gives tax breaks to corporations like Hyundai, he uses our tax dollars to militarize our streets and terrorize the very workers who create Georgia’s wealth. We are here to say: not in our name. We demand an immediate end to the Guard mobilization and all cooperation with ICE, and we call on all Georgians to join us in resisting this police state takeover.”