475 Koreans working while on a non-working visa is ~41% of the 1200 employees at the site. That’s not a simple administrative oversight.
On the one hand, S Korea was in the wrong. On the other hand, they were probably late with their protection payment.
Look what this all boils down to is someone at Hyundai didnt pay the Trump bribe fast enough. That is literally all it is. Now they have to pay ransom.
Will he get a golf course, tower or plane out of this one?
Imagine losing South Korea to China also.
Korea should close the plant and leave Georgia permanently. Screw Trump and his goons squad.
Fine. Now do bogus H1B visas.
I thought the dangerous immigrants were the ones who came in “caravans” , not Koreans working for a Korean company.
He unites the rest of the world.
Every country in the world should just stop exporting to the US for one week. Just stop, and see what happens.
What the fuck were the Chaebols thinking? 475 Korean workers on a visa that explicitly allows them to attend meetings and trainings, but does not allow them to perform regular work, doing work to build a car battery factory. There were so many of them that work has now been brought to a halt by their absence. All of this while the Cheeto Menace is running his ICE Basiji all across the U.S. rounding up people he considers to be undesirables. Of course this was going to happen.
I see no good guys here and 475 victims that were exploited by Hyundai and are now in the custody of an unfriendly government.
Shouldn’t Hyundai have helped their citizens receive the proper visas
Has anybody looked in to whether or not these people did actually not have work visas? ICE likes lying a lot.
Maybe they should get working visas if they gonna ya know…. work in the US lol
What I really despise is that, if this really was a problem with Korean workers holding the wrong kind of visas, the Trump regime could have resolved this quietly. Unlike the “iLlEgAl aLiEnS, the wurst of the wurst” that Trump claims to be prioritizing, these Korean nationals are helping to build the very manufacturing plants that Trump wants to bring to America.
Trump or one of his subordinates should have brought this up with representatives from Hyundai, told them the situation, and either coerce Hyundai to comply with immigration law, or else.
Instead, Trump instantly jumps to the “or else” part without thinking about the consequences. And despite his denials, this WILL impact foreign investment into American manufacturing. No doubt about it.
Moreover, with trade talks ongoing between U.S. and Korea, this will no doubt tell Koreans that the Trump regime is untrustworthy and WILL make life difficult for them if they even give him the wrong vibe.
This raid will only irreparably harm U.S.-Korea relations and give both North Korea and China encouragement.
What was Hyundai doing putting SK workers in plants without visas? That’s stupid, and pretty disrespectful to the US. These aren’t people trying to support their starving families. It looks like they’re claiming it’s ‘impossible otherwise to bring operational know-how’ into the US, but if this is 470 people out of 1200 at a plant, that’s not management. That’s 1/3rd of the workers. Seems ridiculous from the data presented.
So Trump wants foreign businesses to invest billions in the US and build their factories there but then only to hire US citizens to work at said company and factory? Ok got it. So what foreign company is going to do that?
Dictator Trump
Btw most people might not know but as part of the trade deal is for South Korea to invest 100B into the US ship building project. Imagine now how likely that will happen.
We are destroying the economy for literally zero benefit.
“We have Jason Bateman on the line”
This is so awful and heartbreaking.
Not good
If they leave, that would be devastating.
South Koreans have always been fodder throughout history. For the Russians who migrated millions to Kazakstan, under Japanese colonial rule, and under US jurisdiction after the Korean War. Thankfully, they know their place unlike other sovereign nations.
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Welcome to move the factory to Canada!
475 Koreans working while on a non-working visa is ~41% of the 1200 employees at the site. That’s not a simple administrative oversight.
On the one hand, S Korea was in the wrong. On the other hand, they were probably late with their protection payment.
Look what this all boils down to is someone at Hyundai didnt pay the Trump bribe fast enough. That is literally all it is. Now they have to pay ransom.
Will he get a golf course, tower or plane out of this one?
Imagine losing South Korea to China also.
Korea should close the plant and leave Georgia permanently. Screw Trump and his goons squad.
Fine. Now do bogus H1B visas.
I thought the dangerous immigrants were the ones who came in “caravans” , not Koreans working for a Korean company.
He unites the rest of the world.
Every country in the world should just stop exporting to the US for one week. Just stop, and see what happens.
What the fuck were the Chaebols thinking? 475 Korean workers on a visa that explicitly allows them to attend meetings and trainings, but does not allow them to perform regular work, doing work to build a car battery factory. There were so many of them that work has now been brought to a halt by their absence. All of this while the Cheeto Menace is running his ICE Basiji all across the U.S. rounding up people he considers to be undesirables. Of course this was going to happen.
I see no good guys here and 475 victims that were exploited by Hyundai and are now in the custody of an unfriendly government.
Shouldn’t Hyundai have helped their citizens receive the proper visas
Has anybody looked in to whether or not these people did actually not have work visas? ICE likes lying a lot.
Maybe they should get working visas if they gonna ya know…. work in the US lol
What I really despise is that, if this really was a problem with Korean workers holding the wrong kind of visas, the Trump regime could have resolved this quietly. Unlike the “iLlEgAl aLiEnS, the wurst of the wurst” that Trump claims to be prioritizing, these Korean nationals are helping to build the very manufacturing plants that Trump wants to bring to America.
Trump or one of his subordinates should have brought this up with representatives from Hyundai, told them the situation, and either coerce Hyundai to comply with immigration law, or else.
Instead, Trump instantly jumps to the “or else” part without thinking about the consequences. And despite his denials, this WILL impact foreign investment into American manufacturing. No doubt about it.
Moreover, with trade talks ongoing between U.S. and Korea, this will no doubt tell Koreans that the Trump regime is untrustworthy and WILL make life difficult for them if they even give him the wrong vibe.
This raid will only irreparably harm U.S.-Korea relations and give both North Korea and China encouragement.
What was Hyundai doing putting SK workers in plants without visas? That’s stupid, and pretty disrespectful to the US. These aren’t people trying to support their starving families. It looks like they’re claiming it’s ‘impossible otherwise to bring operational know-how’ into the US, but if this is 470 people out of 1200 at a plant, that’s not management. That’s 1/3rd of the workers. Seems ridiculous from the data presented.
So Trump wants foreign businesses to invest billions in the US and build their factories there but then only to hire US citizens to work at said company and factory? Ok got it. So what foreign company is going to do that?
Dictator Trump
Btw most people might not know but as part of the trade deal is for South Korea to invest 100B into the US ship building project. Imagine now how likely that will happen.
We are destroying the economy for literally zero benefit.
“We have Jason Bateman on the line”
This is so awful and heartbreaking.
Not good
If they leave, that would be devastating.
South Koreans have always been fodder throughout history. For the Russians who migrated millions to Kazakstan, under Japanese colonial rule, and under US jurisdiction after the Korean War. Thankfully, they know their place unlike other sovereign nations.
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