Construction at a Hyundai Battery facility in Georgia was disrupted as ICE agents arrested hundreds of Korean technicians, legally in the US to train workers at the new facility.
The attention-seeking wackjob who called ICE with the original complaint about illegal workers, was hoping to jumpstart her political campaign.
She complains about foreigners taking American jobs, and oh, by the way, she hates solar energy, too.
Predictably, she has been getting some blowback, and she’s butt-hurt about it.
A woman who claims she tipped off federal immigration authorities to workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, sparking an international row, is a MAGA acolyte and congressional hopeful.
Tori Branum, a former U.S. Marine, who has accepted the online moniker of “MAGA Karen,” is running for District 12 Congress in the Peach State.
Last week, ICE agents arrested hundreds of South Korean workers at a Hyundai plant, marking what the Department of Homeland Security called its largest-ever raid and triggering outrage from South Korean officials who expressed “concern and regret” over the operation.
A search warrant seen by The Independent showed that agents were seeking the arrest of only four workers at the facility, who are Latino.
Branum, 47, later sparked major backlash after posting online that she had reported the plant to ICE agents, and claimed she “gotten hate mail from all over the country with people telling me to die or that I should be in fear.”
Despite this, she has vowed to push on in her bid for Congress.
“The funniest part is people saying they’re gonna keep me from winning this election in district 12,” she added in a later social media post. “Well there smart one, I’m in a district with 22 counties that are all republican except for one.
“So if you think anybody in this district is going listen to your hateful left liberal rhetoric, you are sadly mistaken. Put your time and energy into something else. Most of y’all don’t even know the difference in Congress or Senate or when the primary is.”
According to Branum’s campaign fundraising page and social media profiles, as well as a former servicewoman, she is a small business owner and firearms trainer.
She seems nice.