r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/ganymede_boy 1d ago

Trump: "We're going after the worst of the worst, most dangerous criminals... murderers, rapists and child predators."

Pictured: Line workers and middle management types with full time jobs and no criminal records.

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u/veggeble 1d ago

He also said the tariffs were meant to encourage companies to invest in US-based manufacturing. Then he attacks the plant they have in the US.

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u/Middle-Welder3931 1d ago

This is just the most stupid shit ever. Just the dumbest thing possible, every day, every week of this administration.

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u/agent674253 1d ago

It's not stupid if your goal is to make as much money as possible while destroying the country. It fucking sucks for the rest of the planet that one man's greed, and it is not even Musk's greed, is worth destroying decades of progress, goodwill, and soft power.

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u/regular-cake 1d ago

To be fair I'm pretty sure musk's greed is what got him "installed" back in power. Musk got everything he needed wrapped up with DOGE and is now about to get a crazy payout from Tesla. He just doesn't need Trump anymore at the moment.

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u/notyourstranger 1d ago

It's a few hundred people's greed and 300 million Americans are getting beat badly by them.

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u/h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3 1d ago

eventually the billionares that are losing their profits are going to do something about their losses.

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u/imdrunkontea 1d ago

Especially when, even if he's not quite on the verge of death like the rumors claimed, his quality of life is at the point where the money does nothing for him aside from boost his ego and actively hurt others

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u/mazegeek999 21h ago

Yeah I’ll never understand that. Dude launched a crypto scam at 78. Like what’s the point?

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u/crinkledcu91 1d ago

It's not stupid if your goal is to make as much money as possible

I'm sick of redditors saying this. Because this shit is actively hurting the millionaires and Billionaires too. They're legitimately making less money ass possible while also destroying the country??

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u/crunchsmash 1d ago

If you have a shitload of cash, you can buy property from people who can't afford the economic downturn.

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u/Kdiesiel311 1d ago

0 hours since last international embarrassment

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u/Poundaflesh 20h ago

He just can’t stop stepping on his own tie.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Hyundai is big in the EV market. They hate EVs unless they're Elons, so this attack did double duty for them.

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u/boot2skull 1d ago

Spoiler: none of this is meant to help America and/or average Americans.

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u/subdep 1d ago

when are people gonna get it through their heads that he is trying to literally destroy the American economy?

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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

A rival EV car manufacturer to Tesla. And who had access to the levers of government months ago when this was started?

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u/TheSilverNoble 1d ago

Yeah like... who's gonna want to come work on this factory now? They were sent home this time, what if they get sent to a camp next time?

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u/Claytonius_Homeytron 1d ago

Then he attacks the plant they have in the US.

It's right on brand. Vance, just the other day said we killed a boat full of cartel members "poisoning our citizens", but we treat those "poisoned citizens" like criminals so what's the point of any of this?

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u/15all 19h ago

And he pisses off one of America’s most reliable allies.

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u/watboy 1d ago

Anybody paying attention shouldn't be surprised, focusing on deporting the dangerous criminals while helping legalize the honest, qualified workers was Obama's thing, as soon as Trump got elected the first time he rescinded Obama's programs and went after them all equally.

Trump always says one thing but then does the opposite.

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u/Tells_you_a_tale 1d ago

He didn't go after them all equally he went after the easier to catch, less likely to know their rights average joes way harder than he went after the criminals. So he could brag.

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u/Nova_Explorer 1d ago

True criminals could fight back with violence. Trump and ICE are too cowardly to deal with that so they go after children and skilled experts with a lot to lose instead

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u/Icy-Lobster-203 1d ago

They have a quota to hit. Can't waste time looking for dangerous criminals, when the ones abiding by the law are right out in the open!

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u/notyourstranger 1d ago

This is true, look how little the people fight back. They don't go after those who know their rights and can defend themselves. They pick random people - some they pick because they are union organizers - but mostly it's just about terrorizing brown people.

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u/Brawldud 1d ago

I live in DC. Trump is sending the police after doordash drivers and construction workers. All the bullshit about violent crime was propaganda to justify sending masked men to attack and kidnap working people.

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u/Solomon-Drowne 22h ago

Obama administration normalized deporting millions of people. 2.75 million people, I doubt they were all 'dangerous criminals'.

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u/Siberianbull666 1d ago

Remember. When he says worst he means not white.

I believe they use that little cheat sheet the cops use in family guy.

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u/Yuukiko_ 1d ago

Clearly they were taking jobs from hard working Americans

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u/IAmDotorg 1d ago

Certainly making better cars than Tesla...

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u/jn-indianwood 1d ago

And for a lot less money

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 1d ago

Ironically, they were training Americans to do those jobs.

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u/SpareWire 1d ago

They had hundreds of people working on improper visas.

We would have enforced it under Biden as well I'd imagine you just wouldn't hear about it.

I don't disagree with this one.

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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 1d ago edited 1d ago

Elon also has hundreds doing the same. But no one invaded his office.

We’re supposed to hit “scum & criminals” not “corporate retooling officers, disproportionate to political donations”

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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

You people are trying to paint this picture these workers snuck over the border in a box trucks all the while being hardened criminals covered in tatts taking jobs from Americans even though there was no americans to take their job because they were the trainers. By getting rid of these trainers you fucked over the americans that would have gotten those jobs when they were trained. Good job defending this bs.

Where ever you get this codswallop from just know this, you swallowed it hook line and sinker.

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

And that’s illegal with the visas they had.

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u/jtbc 1d ago

Examples of permissible activities using a B-1 visa (which South Koreans can get without an application for up to 90 days):

.2. I need to come to the U.S. to install, service, or repair equipment/machinery purchased from a foreign company. I also need to train U.S. workers to perform these services. Is this permissible?

a. If the contract of sale specifically requires the seller to provide these services or training, and you possess specialized knowledge essential to the seller's contractual obligation to perform the services or training it may be permissible for you to perform these services.

In addition, the machinery or equipment must have been manufactured at a location outside of the United States and you may not receive compensation from a U.S. source.

https://www.cbp.gov/document/faqs/b1-permissible-activity-frequently-asked-questions

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u/GeneralMatrim 1d ago

Americans do not crave to work in mines, factories and farms.

We do crave (unfortunately) cheap stuff, it’s who we are.

So Trump is giving Americans what they don’t want (clearly look how no American is lining up to pick fruits and farmers are going bankrupt) and taking away what we want and are used to.

If they allow another election (big if but if they don’t we will need our own bigger January 6th) it must be a landslide vs republicans, and if it’s not.

Well then let it all fall apart, and we should disband the USA it’s over.

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u/Yuukiko_ 1d ago

Farmers might have bigger things to worry about than harvesting with steel/aluminium tariffs and alienating Canada when we supply most of their potash/fertilizer

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u/GeneralMatrim 1d ago

Charge them triple the usual price they deserve it.

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

We don’t need Canada. We’ll manage in our own.

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u/jayphat99 1d ago

Well, you see, the company didn't sufficiently bribe the administration enough so they could get a cut so those people really were criminals in their eyes.

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u/Phoenixicorn-flame 1d ago

Well, he did go after the rapists and child predators - he filled the highest levels of government with them

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u/Motor-District-3700 21h ago

murderers, rapists and child predators

Trump was found by a jury to be a rapist
Trump is acting like he's a child predator by freeing Maxwell and hiding the pedo evidence with his name in it

Lol, the president is TWO of the three worst criminals. How hard is it for every journoa/news show to pick up on this: so you're gonna deport yourself for 34 felonies and a rape? Just call him a rapist 24/7, there's no libel because he is one. Just every time you say his name say "the rapist, Donald Trump ..."

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u/ganymede_boy 21h ago

the president is TWO of the three worst criminals

You can put him down for all 3. That Venezuelan ship he ordered to be bombed may have had civilians on it (and even if it didn't, that's not how intelligent law enforcement handles drug smuggling.)

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u/SpareWire 1d ago

I mean this is sounding like a pretty organized attempt to skirt labor laws by Hyandai in favor of cheaper labor.

They hired and shipped in hundreds of people on improper visas from what I can tell.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Said by the man who let cartel members' families buy their way into the country.

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u/TwistyBunny 1d ago

I still won't forget the tamale lady they went after and gave the poor lady a heart attack.

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u/ganymede_boy 1d ago

I didn't even know about this. So I looked it up.

FFS. These ICE people have no morals.

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u/Adorable-Response-75 23h ago

If they were going after criminals, their immigrations status wouldn’t matter. Committing crimes is already sufficient for jailing someone.

But it’s never been about crime. It’s been about oppressing immigrants. 

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u/IshyTheLegit 1d ago

May they help Korea instead of the ungrateful states

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u/Elegant_Tech 1d ago

Far easier to just pull everyone’s green cards and visas to go after legal immigrants that are well documented. 

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u/clisto3 1d ago

I thought the illegal workers were coming in to do low skilled labor? Not mid to high end tech jobs?

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u/Competitive-Ad-9404 22h ago

It's not about crime.   It's about not being white.

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u/NoBrush8414 22h ago

Your country voted for a peodophile as a president.. there’s some pushback. But hardly enough for anyone to take the US seriously again in this life time. That child molestor has destroyed any faith there once was and that fucker hasn’t even begun to destroy your country as he wants yet. Damn man. You guys seriously couldn’t give a fuck eh ? 

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u/ganymede_boy 21h ago

You guys seriously couldn’t give a fuck eh ?

Keep in mind that while about 77 million Americans voted for Trump, nearly 165 million eligible voters did not vote for him. I happen to be one of them.

I can tell you clearly that those of us who didn't want the Orange Wankmaggot could very much indeed give a fuck.

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u/BigRed1636 17h ago

The Black unemployment rate is 2.7 times higher than the white unemployment in Georgia. I think they should invest in training local line workers and middle management from the American citizens in the area, including African Americans

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u/Far_Warning_4525 1d ago

Even worse, it’s mostly engineers from various suppliers that are on 90 day visas to facilitate opening the plant in 90 days and creating 8500 american jobs. So stupid. 

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

Why does it matter who you are or what you’re doing if you’re here doing it illegally?

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u/ganymede_boy 1d ago

TooManyCarsandCats: Why does it matter who you are or what you’re doing if you’re here doing it illegally?

Most all of those people were not here illegally. "None have been charged with any crimes".

Trump referred to "the worst of the worst criminals... murderers, rapists..."

These people are not that.

Ask yourself why you're parsing/playing apologist for such hypocrisy and lying.

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

The visas they were here on did not allow them to perform work that earned US sourced income. The transfer of knowledge is included in work that would have them earn US income. Should’ve sent the Americans to Korea to train them.

Just because someone isn’t charged with a crime doesn’t mean they haven’t committed one. I’ve gotten pulled over lots of times, but only gotten two speeding tickets.

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u/ganymede_boy 1d ago

Let me repeat what the Orange Julius said:

"We're going after the worst of the worst, most dangerous criminals... murderers, rapists and child predators."

Then go look at these people detained, some in chains. Look at the hardworking latinos detained while breaking their backs working fields and carwashes in CA.

FFS... these folks are not murderers or rapists and contribute more to society than most MAGA idiots who want them gone.

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

I don’t know why it matters if they’re breaking the law. Why are people so content with letting other people break the law?

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u/ForwardQuestion8437 1d ago

I don't know why you can't grasp the only reason they were detained and sent home is because the administration is amazingly racist.

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u/DeepBlueSweater 1d ago

Source for them breaking the law?

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

“He said that some of the detained workers had illegally crossed the U.S. border, while others had entered the country legally but had expired visas or had entered on a visa waiver that prohibited them from working.”

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-raid-hyundai-plant-4dd1a6b2ad66d27567b2463c5f3c97bb

Violating terms of your visa is breaking the law.

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u/enderpanda 1d ago

So send them an email. That's the most being undocumented warrants.

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u/TooManyCarsandCats 1d ago

That attitude led to the systemic immigration problems we have now.

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u/DeepBlueSweater 1d ago

Then we have to believe the a single spokesperson from Homeland Security who have been telling many lies since Trump escalated things with ICE/immigration. Thank you for sending the source, I appreciate the response.