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The disclosed ice document shows that workers held in Hyundai Raid had a valid visa
José Olivares
At least one of the Korean workers swept a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai Motor factory site in Georgia last week lived and worked legally in the United States, according to an internal document from the federal government obtained by The Guardian.
The officials then “demanded” that he agreed to be withdrawn from the United States despite his non-violence his visa.
The document shows that immigration officials are aware that someone with a valid visa was one of the people arrested during the Hyundai factory raid and was taken to the detention of immigration and customs (ICE) for the procedure for dismissal, where those arrested remained on Tuesday before the expected deportation flights to South Korea.
The document in question is the case of man and has been disclosed exclusively to the Guardian. He was written by an ice agent. The Guardian exploits the identity of the man in question, who arrived in the United States in June, because it was not possible to join him directly and it is not clear if he has a legal representation.
The document indicates that Atlanta immigration agents “have determined that [redacted] entered the United States in [redacted]with a valid B1 / B2 visa and [redacted] Was employed at HL-GA Battery Company LLC as an entrepreneur of the South Korean company SFA. From the declarations made and requests in the databases of the police, [redacted] did not violate his visa; However, the director of the Atlanta field office forced [redacted] be presented as a voluntary departure. [Redacted] accepted voluntary departure despite not raping its B1 / B2 visa requirements. »»
Photo of the novelty of novelty suggests to Epstein ‘sold’ Trump a woman for $ 22,500
Ramon Antonio Vargas
An album for the 50th anniversary of Jeffrey Epstein published Monday contains a photo of him holding a novelty check bearing the signing of Donald Trump, as well as a note suggesting that Epstein “sold” a woman for $ 22,500, highlighting the long -standing relationship between the president and the condemned sex offender.
The photo shows Epstein and Joel Pashcow, a long-standing member of Trump’s Mar-A-Lago station, and a third figure, apparently a woman, whose face is expounded in the image, which was shared on social networks by the Democrats of the Chamber’s supervisory committee. The legend, apparently of pashcow, reads [redaction] to Donald Trump for $ 22,500. »»
Epstein “also showed that the first” popular skills “” continued legend. “Even if I managed the agreement, I didn’t get any money on the girl!”
The check is signed “DJ Trump” in a style that differs from most of its signatures at the time.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the woman was someone with whom Epstein and the now double American president – whose central initial is J – “socialized with” in the 1990s. Women’s lawyer declared to the newspaper that she had cut the links with Epstein around 1997 and had no romantic relationship with Epstein or Trump, does not know Pashcow, and had no knowledge of the letter, “Disgusting and deeply disturbing hoax”.
The White House would support the medico-legal analysis of the signature on the letter from Epstein
Hello and welcome to our live cover of American policy in the middle of the current fury on the links between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, as The White House declared that it would support a medico-legal analysis of the signature on a letter allegedly given by the president to the sexual offender condemned.
The White House officials doubled on Tuesday on their assertion that a sexually suggestive letter bearing what seemed to be the signature of Trump which was included in a birthday book for Epstein had not been signed by the president.
The letter, and her drawing of a naked woman torso, were part of a lot of documents published by the Chamber’s surveillance committee in response to a summons after his existence was reported for the first time in July by the Wall Street Journal.
During a press briefing, Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, denied Trump’s involvement in the letter and added that the White House would support a signature expert review to determine if Trump’s hand had been done.
“Three distinct signature analysts who said that it was not the authentic signature of the president and we have supported this from the start. The president has not written this letter, he did not sign this letter,” said Leavitt.
Several White House officials sought to keep Trump away from the 2003 note suggesting that the signature did not look like recent examples. But the officials refused to respond to the fact that before his mandate, Trump regularly used only his first name in signatures, stylized with a line extending from the last letter – and Trump’s signature on a letter from 1995 looked closely to that found on the note in Epstein.
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