"Half of Employees in Fear" Korean-Owned Supermarket Shaken by U.S. Immigration Raid

U.S. Border Patrol Raids Korean-Run Supermarket
Employee Injured During Crackdown, Face Slammed to the Ground

As U.S. immigration authorities conduct large-scale immigration raids in Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina, it has been revealed that a supermarket run by a Korean immigrant family has been affected.

On the 17th, local media outlet The New York Times reported that at around 2 p.m. two days earlier, U.S. Border Patrol agents stormed the Pineville branch of the Super G Mart supermarket chain. The agents arrived in sport utility vehicles, and after getting out of their vehicles, they forced the store employees outside all at once.

On the 17th (local time), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were searching for immigrants at a gas station store in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo by Yonhap News

During this process, one employee in his twenties was dragged outside and fell onto the concrete, injuring his face. Out of five employees who were moving shopping carts inside the store, three were detained and taken away by the agents on the spot.

The commotion caused not only the store staff but also Korean customers to scream and flee, while high school student cashiers working at the checkout counter hid in the restroom. The immigration raid continued into the following day.

Peter Han, Vice President of the Super G Mart Pineville branch, stated, "More than half of our eighty employees are unable to work due to anxiety."

The Border Patrol announced that it had launched a large-scale immigration crackdown in Charlotte starting on the 15th, and that eighty-one people had been arrested in just one day.

According to the immigrant advocacy group Siembra NC, this is one of the largest immigration raids ever conducted in North Carolina.

Super G Mart is operated by a family of immigrants from Korea: Irene Han serves as the president, while her two sons, Peter Han and Paul Han, hold the positions of vice president and operations manager, respectively.

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