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After immigration raid in Georgia, Koreans question U.S. alliance

Here & Now Anytime

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Seoul-based journalist Raphael Rashid talks about the explosive reaction in South Korea to the arrest last week of more than 300 South Korean immigrants working to build a battery factory in Georgia. 

Then, the Trump administration could start as soon as this week enforcing a ban on children without legal status in Head Start, which provides free early child care services. The 19th's Chabeli Carrazana joins us. 

And, in New York state, students are adjusting to a new cellphone ban in schools. Chalkbeat's Amy Zimmer joins us to discuss how schools are implementing the ban.

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It's not just Korea, but I think Japan will also be looking at this very,

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was a lot of concern as well.

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And other countries that I've been kind of extorted to invest in the U.S.,

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this will be raising quite a lot of questions for them as well.

0:37.1

How South Korea is reacting to the Trump administration's biggest workplace immigration

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raid to date.

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It's Monday, September 8th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR Boston.

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I'm Chris Bentley.

1:01.8

Today on the show, the Trump administration is moving to kick undocumented kids off the child care program head start.

1:09.7

With the ban set to take effect later this week,

1:12.5

childcare providers aren't sure what to do. So whose status are we checking? How are we checking it?

1:18.5

What documents are we requiring? They don't know yet. And in New York, students are back in school

1:25.3

and adjusting to a new statewide ban on cell phones in class.

1:29.8

So there are ways around it. However, I will say that teachers have already said that

1:34.2

because there's a clear policy, it's easier to enforce when kids are breaking the rules.

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But first, an outrage, a breach of trust between allies. Those are just

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some of the newspaper headlines in South Korea today following a workplace raid in Georgia last

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week. ICE agents arrested more than 300 South Korean workers at a battery factory that's being

1:59.6

built outside of Savannah. Immigration officials

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