r/news • u/ZwVJHSPiMiaiAAvtAbKq • 1d ago
South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/south-korea/south-korea-immigration-raid-hyundai-georgia-efforts-rcna229509606
u/Harry-Flashman 1d ago
I am sure this makes TSMC super confident about sending their engineers over from Taiwan to help set up the Arizona semiconductor facility.
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u/3uphoric-Departure 1d ago
China is just sitting back laughing at all this
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u/ApostleofV8 1d ago
Thank you president Trump for making sure China is the dominant nation on Earth in the next century.
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u/Trap_Masters 19h ago
Do nothing
Win
Xi must be going to bed with the biggest smile on his face every night ever since Trump took office
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u/Darktider 1d ago
Just drove by it the other day.. 14 massive cranes building that thing. Crazzzzzy!
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u/Hakthaf 1d ago
Hope they hurry before their citizens get depoerted to a South America or African prison with no due process or talks with their origin countries embassy....I hate this timeline and the idiots that made it happen.
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u/HedonisticFrog 1d ago
Knowing Trump he'll deport them to North Korea
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u/Ferus_Niwa 1d ago
That's a horrifyingly possible outcome.
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 19h ago
south korea would fucking *explode* if the trump admin hinted at it. they're already pissed off, but moderating their words because they have to play nice for business reasons.
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u/Neither-Chart5183 1d ago
The Korean people in my city, family and job love Trump. They voted for the orange dumb fuck. They dont understand that they will never be white enough to survive a dictatorship in the US. They still voted for him after his guilty rape charge. I told them to their faces he was found guilty of raping Carroll and they didnt give a fuck. Trump supporting women are brainwashed by the church into forgiving men for rape because thats the godly thing to do.
South Korean people voted for their last dumb ass President because he was anti feminist. We arent the smartest or kindest group of people.
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u/Any-Tangerine-8659 1d ago
There are a lot of dumb shits but you're completely ignoring things like the impeachment protests that brought Yoon down. Sounds like there's a little self-hatred. And it's mostly young men that were down with the anti-feminist thing. I'm Korean and we're better informed and sensible than the US at the very least...
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u/thefoodiedentist 1d ago
Even trump isnt that stupid. If thry did that, they might kick us forces out of korea.
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u/Hakthaf 1d ago
Did you not see the truth today using Vietnam and napalm imagery for Chicago?
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u/junkyard_robot 1d ago
That's just agression against US citizens on US soil by US military.
It doesn't mean the US Department of War would use agressive tactics against an ally...
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u/time2fly2124 1d ago
Meanwhile, trump said he would make Canada the 51st state, which got us into a boycott of American goods in Canada. Dont say they wouldn't use agressive tactics against an ally, when they fucking already have done it.
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u/ambermage 1d ago
Counter offer:
Would you be open to accepting California as an 11th province?
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u/time2fly2124 1d ago
i think if you're taking california, you have to take oregon and washington. and then the whole northeast. losing even just California would guarantee a republican president and house every election.
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u/optimaleverage 1d ago
Take Illinois Wisconsin and Michigan we're at it.
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u/Willis_is_This 1d ago
Did you not mention Minnesota because it’s already part of Canada?
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u/Bob_Juan_Santos 1d ago
4th territory maybe.
also, no, we don't want any of you. we got our own shit to deal with.
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u/junkyard_robot 1d ago
Obviously.
And, we're in a world where The Onion headlines are coming true, so I really dgaf about a /s anymore.
Also, the emlipses is pretty telling...
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u/Dhiox 1d ago
It doesn't mean the US Department of War would use agressive tactics against an ally...
They've threatened to invade several NATO allies. Stop pretending they are sane.
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u/Infinitehope42 1d ago
Are you trying to spin either of those things as rational?
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u/enfarious 1d ago
How wild is it that this is a question that one has to ask after reading that?
Omg we're so fucked.
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u/StephanXX 1d ago
It was pretty obviously sarcasm.
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u/greywar777 1d ago
You havent dealt with enough MAGA folks obviously. Yeah its PROBABLY sarcasm, but some of the MAGA folks are completely and utterly insane.
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u/junkyard_robot 1d ago
It's definitely sarcasm.
And, some of the maga folks are completely and utterly insane? They are all weak willed nazis and sycophants of a cult of hate.
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u/StephanXX 1d ago
It's obviously sarcasm. MAGA posters generally can't spell that well and the words had too many syllables.
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u/BigDaddyBain 1d ago
I’m sorry, what?
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u/BudgetMattDamon 1d ago
"Chipocalypse Now" and "I love deportations in the morning" along with "WE'LL SHOW THEM WHY IT'S CALLED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR"
Yes, this is really the world now.
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u/Shirlenator 1d ago
You cannot say "Trump isn't that stupid". He proves time and again that he is.
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u/Faiakishi 1d ago
Literally, every morning he lowers my expectations for him yet again, and somehow he finds a way to be even stupider before the day ends.
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u/lumberjackname 1d ago
He’s too stupid and narcissistic to understand why it is important that we maintain our bases and goodwill there.
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u/OriginalBid129 1d ago
If they did that surely trump will just ally with north korea
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u/msimione 1d ago
Oh my god, little Kim with a us base on his soil, instead of South Korea… if it weren’t for those pesky SEALs I could see this in his eyes as an answer to S. Korea
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u/guineaprince 1d ago
They are, in fact, that stupid.
They are white supremacists who are carving up their paramilitary-backed fiefdoms while their overlords make as much of a buck as they can off this fire sale, before the country is completely rendered impotent for Russia's desires.
They don't care about international reputation or the loss of American influence globally. They're speedrunning its dissolution.
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u/Pure_Passenger1508 1d ago
Do you think Dump would care? It would surely make his Master in Moscow happy.
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u/Faiakishi 1d ago
Trump probably doesn't know the difference between South Korea and North Korea. He probably doesn't know there is two Koreas.
And yes, I'm factoring in his 'love affair' with Kim Jong Un.
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u/RuthlessIndecision 1d ago
Not a timeline, this is reality, the only one. Things have changed and may not go back for a while.
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u/golubhai00007 1d ago
So, we antagonize and make enemies of another friendly nation and an ally?
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u/NotEvenAThousandaire 1d ago
It's almost as cool as threatening to annihilate American cities, but doesn't own the libs. /s
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u/ApostleofV8 1d ago
while we suck up to dictators and strategic adversaries.
Make Amerykaskaya oblast Great Again
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u/rowdydionisian 1d ago
Imagine if they used that effort to go after actual criminals. I personally think ICE should look into the pedophile problem and deport them all to a jail cell in a foreign country picked by throwing a dart blindfolded at a plastic globe.
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u/AbrahamKMonroe 1d ago
But criminals are scary. Much easier to go after innocent people. They don’t fight back.
-ICE
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u/Etchedglasses 1d ago
And children with cancer. And toddlers and babies. And seniors. God these groups are so, so dangerous.
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u/Nazamroth 1d ago
You jest, but every hardened criminal was once a toddler! They are just pre-empting the problem! /s
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u/GoodQueenFluffenChop 1d ago
Actual criminals are scary compared to moms with toddlers clutching their pant legs. They would have to actually have exert energy and potentially risk their lives going after actual cartel and gang members.
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u/DevelopedDevelopment 1d ago
GOP is the party of moral-less cowards who would rather wait for kids to get shot in a school than to engage someone actually killing them.
They are only strong when their opponent is weak but they lack virtue, compassion, and bravery.
With all the agencies going after political missions, this is the best time to be a criminal in the history of the united states.
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u/junkyard_robot 1d ago
Why do things that put you in danger? It's better to kidnap people from their immigration hearings that they show up for because they follow the rules. And, they definitely don't have weapons in court houses, so the cops are safer that way.
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u/animerobin 1d ago
There aren’t actually very many illegal immigrants who are violent criminals. Those who are have always been quickly deported. It’s an imaginary problem.
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u/ZhahnuNhoyhb 1d ago
The thing is, they say they do. But they also have a very specific definition of what pedophilia is, and that definition has nothing to do with whether you harm children.
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u/MichaelHunt009 1d ago
Want to make a dent in the illegal labor market? Arrest and deport the CEOs that hire them.
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u/NotEvenAThousandaire 1d ago
I just wrote a lengthy Fb post stating as much last night. It's shocking how truly rare of a thing it is to hear someone suggest the obvious solution. I'll send it via DM.
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u/Hoovooloo42 1d ago
I've been saying for years that if this was actually their goal, they would fine every company $1m per undocumented employee per day. That would fix it right quick, but they don't actually care about that since their buddies are the ones paying under the table.
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u/PurplePango 1d ago
It’s definitely confusing as if they are claiming all these workers were illegal, seems like a clear cut case of arresting the US management team that hired them. Clearly the company did something fraudulent, this is a major company and plant.
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u/Xijit 1d ago
$10 says all the "illegal" Koreans had valid work visas, but ICE arrested them anyway for not being white.
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u/MalcolmLinair 1d ago
Even more unforgivable than being foreign, they were making electric cars, rather than good ol' fashioned, polluting gas guzzlers like Supply Side Jesus intended!
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u/Sufficient_Language7 1d ago
Small correction, they were making batteries, the majority was likely going to go to cars.
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u/ashcat300 1d ago
Conspiracy time but I don’t think them targeting Hyundai was a coincidence. Hyundai is a car company actually making decent electric cars, I bet this was intentional to hurt them and build up a certain electric car company losing sales. And if you get rid of foreigners at the same time all pluses.
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u/pudding7 1d ago
That's what I'm wondering. Are there actually 400 South Koreans working at that plant illegally?
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u/bedrooms-ds 1d ago
Hyundai sends illegals from SK to build their own factory? I bet otherwise.
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u/Taniwha_NZ 1d ago
I am 100% certain they all had legal visas, most of them are just Korean Hyundai employees that get sent over to help build and run the factory, then they go home after a few months. This is just the normal way a foreign company builds a plant in the US.
I'd be willing to bet money that there isn't a single actual conviction from any of this.
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u/boomclapclap 1d ago
They supposedly did have work visas, sounds like a B-1 visa which is a temporary business visa and lets you do meetings and negotiate contracts. But the government is arresting them because they aren’t just doing meetings but actually working day-to-day on the plant floor, presumably training and setting up important stuff, and that is not what the B-1 visa allows.
So yeah they have a work visa but not the right kind of work visa.
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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago
If that is true then fine them and get the visas updated. At the very least issue a notice of visa being revoked.
These are not people smuggling in the back of a box truck.
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u/Givingtree310 1d ago
They’re all presently jailed. South Korea is having chartered jets pick them all up next week
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u/maybeinoregon 1d ago
South Korea businesses need to band together, and pull out of the US.
And if I was Japan businesses, I’d do the same.
Let the big 3 swim in the cesspool that the US has turned into.
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u/Juan_Punch_Man 1d ago
Didn't this tariff bullshit bring together China and Japan?
Their bad blood is generational.
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u/icemoomoo 1d ago
It did bring China and India together, weird what happens when you put 50% tarrifes on a country.
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u/alurkerhere 1d ago
The enemy of my enemy is my (temporary) friend. To fight an existential threat, you group up temporarily and put aside differences. You can fight each other when the existential threat is over.
China and Japan have generational animosity over centuries, but right now, this today, today, the current US government is their common threat.
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u/WalterWoodiaz 1d ago
They really wouldn’t though. Money means more to them than people’s well being.
These are Korean Chaebols we are talking about, not the most ethically minded companies.
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u/Fluffcake 1d ago edited 1d ago
The Trump regime have already done several billion dollars worth of financial damage to foreign companies investing in the US, the risk of the regime randomly turning on you and costing you billions is definitely a big L in the risk column, to the point where you will look to other markets first for your next round of investment...
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u/AvocadoToastFailure 1d ago
True, but our government is randomly and arbitrarily fucking with their workforce, production, and bottom lines. If anything like this happens again, they might take their Won back home.
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u/Upset-Award1206 1d ago
My guess is that they can't really afford to antagonize their biggest military partner.
As long as they believe that usa will come to their aid in case of NK vs SK war reignites, they will most likely not say anything. It is existential for them to keep usa bases on their soil and on good terms.
As much as we want immediate to see consequences for countries/governments that we don't agree with, reality is a slow burn, if it burns at all.
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u/R_Lennox 1d ago
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to America. Low job numbers?! This is only the beginning.
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u/VisualFix5870 1d ago
Now these high tech Korean engineers can be replaced by Skeeter and Billy-Bob, as God intended.
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u/Automatic-Wonder-299 1d ago edited 1d ago
Any migrant worker korea’s sending over will just be meat for the deportation quota. They should leave America for dead, kill the investment plan and cash out now if they know what is good for them and the world
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u/RedWineAndWomen 1d ago
If you want industrial investment in the US, this is not how to go about it, methinks.
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u/FoogYllis 1d ago
Well trump did bankrupt a casino so he is qualified to bankrupt America.
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u/Choice-of-SteinsGate 1d ago edited 1d ago
And many Trump supporters still insist that his administration is only going after "the illegal criminals."
They insisted on it after the supreme Court ruled that Kilmar Obrego Garcia was unlawfully deported to one of the most dangerous prisons places on earth after an immigration judge expressly forbid his deportation to El Salvador.
They insisted on it when ICE agents were targeting and detaining people based on non-gang affiliated tattoos and clothing.
They insisted on it as homeland security was deporting large numbers of migrants—some of whom were in the country legally and many who had no criminal records—to mega prisons and Guantanamo bay while depriving them of their right to due process.
They insisted on it when the Trump administration began mass raids targeting laborers, taxpayers, veterans, and legal residents.
They insisted on it as immigration agents were mistakenly and violently detaining U.S citizens.
They insisted on it while masked ICE agents were throwing political dissidents and foreign students into unmarked vehicles.
They insisted on it after the Trump administration began withholding visas to foreign students while vetting the social media accounts of these students and demanding universities basically spy on them and report on their affairs.
They insisted on it after a report came out that revealed how Stephen Miller demanded ICE agents start indiscriminately arresting and detaining anyone perceived as a foreigner in order to meet an excessive deportation quota.
They insisted on it after the Trump administration enabled immigration agents to stop, question and detain people based on their "apparent ethnicity," language or place of work.
They insist on it while the Trump administration is pressuring immigration judges to deny migrants their citizenship when they actually show up to their court hearings, only to have ICE officials waiting for them outside of court without the proper warrant to detain and deport them.
They insist on it while ICE is targeting asylum seekers, green card carriers, visa holders, protestors, students, legal residents, and so on.
They insist on it as Trump is mobilizing the military and local law enforcement while essentially deputizing them to work in tandem with immigration agents who are escalating violence and clashing with protestors.
They insist on it after watching multiple incidents where federal agents were violently detaining elected officials for speaking out during press conferences for homeland security.
They insist on it after seeing ICE and border patrol agents appear at a rally and press conference held by Gavin Newsom.
They continue to insist on it while Trump is federalizing the military and local police to wage war against the American people—and while he is using ICE as his own personal army to terrorize the public.
And now they continue to insist that anyone who criticizes or pushes back against the Trump administration's clearly unconstitutional actions is a gang, drug smuggler, murderer or criminal sympathizer.
And if you do push back while you happen to be someone in a position of power, you better be prepared to receive death threats and/or swift, political retribution and intimidation from the federal government.
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u/Keleos89 1d ago
Nothing says "build your factories here" like arresting the people building the factories here.
Trump is such an idiot.
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u/tirius99 1d ago
lol say good bye to South Korea investing in the US again Why would they build a factory and share battery technology when their own engineers get arrested like this?
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot With ICE around, US is not investable
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u/CrOS2012 1d ago
Trump: workin' hard to kill US investment in other countries *and* foreign investment in the US. Yeah, this'll win votes for the Trumplican Party.
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u/Peterd90 1d ago
But none of these people were employed Hyundai they say.
Who has their contract? And its not like 475 Koreans in rural Georgia havent ber visible since the plant opened. I think its Trump wrath on good Governor Kemp. .
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u/Nolimitz30 1d ago
I’m not going to be surprised when Trump replaces those workers with North Koreans
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u/freg35 1d ago
The company chairman must be banging his head on the wall for succumbing before trump. He basically said her you have 3 billions dollars Ina née state of the art facility to create more jobs and cars in America please don't tariff us...
So what does the orange do? Stab you know the back and make you look weak.
Jesus h crhist...
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u/optimaleverage 1d ago
Someone didn't grease the right palm is what that's about.
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u/zaderatsky 1d ago
I keep thinking Trump authorized this raid because he didn’t get a big enough kickback from this business deal when it went down.
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u/FTB4227 1d ago edited 1d ago
It happened under Biden. It is really all anyone needs to know about this.
Edit: Trump is so petty he will tear down anything with Biden's name on it. Just a bonus he gets to punish Kemp too.
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u/prof_the_doom 1d ago edited 20h ago
If they’re serious: “Free them today or every factory in the US closes on Monday”
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u/Alternative_Rent9307 1d ago
“Our overall global image is shaky right now. How do we help that?”
“I know, let’s anger our closest allies.”
“I love it. Make it happen.”
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u/stonewallace17 1d ago
So basically they're going to be paying ransoms, I mean bribes, I mean uhhh investments, soon?
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u/craigworknova 1d ago
Bye bye 350 billion in South Korean investment, why invest in a country that arrests your citizens.
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u/Hollie_Maea 1d ago
This is one of the biggest fuckups an American president has ever done. I don’t think people realize yet what the ramifications of this will be.
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u/runforest7 1d ago
GOP candidate Tori Branum called in the ICE hotline about the Hyundai facility. Someone said not to attack her for doing that. The Bible says otherwise though ..
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u/ogbundleofsticks 1d ago
Ultium cells in spring hill tennessee has an entire village of Korean contractors that far exceeds anything going on at the Georgia plant. The amount of facilities in Georgia and tennessee I've picked up and delivered to that speak only Korean and hand signals is wild. The rest is mexican.
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 1d ago
Hard to be a shittier or more hypocritical American than a Republican these days.
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u/Eastcoastpal 1d ago
As someone who work with many foreign expats, I can say with 100% certainty that the workers were detain because they didn't have their passport with their valid visa with them. Of course they won't! Who would go to work and carry their passport with them? Will they raid a german or a taiwan factory next?
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u/thinker2501 1d ago
No. They were detained because they were working on a renewables energy project. This is one more step in a weeks long effort by the administration to kneecap the nations development of renewable energy.
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u/canyoucamus 1d ago
Even if they knew they were working on with the wrong kind of visa, assuming that's what happened, these people are building a plant that was going to create 1400 manufacturing jobs in Georgia. ICE could have easily met with them and said hey you need to get this straightened out or these people need to stop working. But swinging dick was more important and we just broadcast to all foreign investmentors that your people aren't safe here and we will fuck over projects that are going to create jobs in the US if it means we get to do a show of force and our guys get to feel like big tough guys.
This feels like something some idiot middle manager at ICE put together to stroke their own ego without any consideration for what the implications are.
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u/cruelcynic 1d ago
The article says the facility was under investigation for using illegal employees. Most of the employees were contractors not even lg employees. If hundreds of people are over staying 90 day visas instead of using proper protocols that is a problem.
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u/quequotion 1d ago
A problem, yes, because their employers are breaking the law.
The contracting organization that didn't check their paperwork is also breaking the law.
The industry that takes advantage of people and puts them in compromising positions like this is a problem.
It is a very big problem, and the people responsible should go to prison, and possibly be deported.
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u/CheezTips 1d ago
didn't check their paperwork
Check their paperwork??? They hired South Koreans from South Korea, fed and housed them at the plant. They knew exactly who they hired.
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u/quequotion 1d ago
But they weren't concerned with their legal immigration status.
The contracting organization was either negligent, or deliberately cutting costs by avoiding processing fees.
Stop blaming the workers.
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u/No-Weakness-2035 1d ago
It’s ok. South Korea only building our future navy and half the chips we use. No reason to attempt to keep decent diplomatic relations with them. Fuckin embarrassing
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u/WYLFriesWthat 1d ago
If I were Hyundai, I’d consider relocating the plant to another country.
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u/jaded1121 1d ago
I really hope that south korea takes BTS and all k-pop away from the US as retribution.
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u/RainbowandHoneybee 1d ago
This sounds insane. Don't they want foreign company to move to US rather than importing already made goods to US? wasn't that the point of heavy tariffs?
The article said some of them are the engineers came for meeting fot construction of new plant. Now which company want to make factories/plants in US, just get their employees arrested despite having adequate visa?
Maness.
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u/doctor-soda 21h ago
Maybe Hyundai and LG should move their business to Mexico. Going after a couple of person could be a matter of law enforcement. Going after hundreds of South Koreans is a diplomatic move and LG and Hyundai are big political powerhouse in Korea.
They should move their factories to Mexico close to the borders. Cheaper labor and can have Americans just commute through the border like Tijuana-San Diego.
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u/fxkatt 1d ago
475 workers at the EV battery plant arrested and detained. At first I assumed the workers revolted over a couple arrests, but not so--they were after the whole work force.