Südkoreaner fühlen sich betrogen, nachdem Hunderte von Arbeitern in einem Pflanzenangriff in Georgien festgenommen wurden
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/south-koreans-feel-betrayed-after-hundreds-of-workers-were-detained-in-a-plant-raid-in-georgia/
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I wonder if any of our allies, will still be allies, by the end of Trump’s term.
Close the plant. Put a lock on the door and sign that says “closed, will return 2028. ”
Imagine telling people to build in America, then do this when they are trying to do just that
This would have net them thousands of jobs
This is all Putin wanted. 10/10 everyone
Korea detains & deports thousands of people each year. This is rage bait.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/globalcommunity/20241008/koreas-undocumented-worker-crisis-worsens
I have mixed feelings about this. I disagree with this administration’s aggressive racist anti-immigrant policies, such as armed men in masks accosting people without cause 😡But in this case was Hyundai breaking the law, and was this proper, if a little heavy handed?
Edit: Can anybody give an explanation rather than just downvoting?
Damn I used to work at this plant. Kia/hyundai plant in West Point ga. Trust me, if they are here it’s 100% legal. This is appalling
„U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters in London that Trump sent a “powerful” message to investors and their employees.“
Yes, a powerful message, but not the one she thinks.
I dont see how this is wrong and Trump’s fault. It was a clear violation of VISA Policies by doing work while on a VISA which doesnt allow that.
Time to move the plant to Canada
Come assemble your cars in Canada
Americans also feel betrayed by the U.S. We’d understand if our allies felt the need to turn their backs on us for the next 3.5 years, but please don’t give up on us.
Is the message not just being legal workers to the country? Why do people defend those who dont follow the rules?
This was done to slow down Hyundai’s growing EV production (and growing market share)
Tesla was happy to see this raid happen.
GM and Ford doing happy dance.
welcome to the club, signed Canada
Where where the other 175 employees from?
It’s amazing how these countries get upset over us enforcing our own laws….How about American companies go over to South Korea and just do whatever they want. Maybe they will just use slave labor in their factories or work employees 24×7. How about we pull out all of the money and soldiers defending them from North Korea 24×7? 🤡
How easy is it for me to get a south koren work visa compared to a south korean getting an american visa? If the visa was expired but they kept on working why did the company ignore this?
Apparently a state congressional candidate is claiming credit for this political stunt/tipping off ICE about the facility and is now complaining about backlash: https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-08/national/socialAffairs/US-politician-who-reported-the-LGHyundai-plant-to-ICE-faces-online-backlash/2393750
I’m sorry but if your plant has 425+ people without authorization to work that’s the plant/hyundais problem and this is not normal. Like if they would have done this raid and only a couple people were not documented then we would have said this was an unnecessary disruption to the plant. It is simply unacceptable for any major employer to have this systemic problem of unauthorized employement on their sites even if it was a lot of contractors.
I have very little sympathy for companies that take massive tax breaks to entice them to build a factory there the promise of X jobs. If the US and the state are using tax payer money to subsidize you than you should follow the letter of the law.
DHS indicated that the detained individuals were in the country illegally. Some had entered illegally, some entered on tourist visas that don’t allow work, some had valid work visas that expired. Most worked for subcontractors, not for Hyundai directly. Exactly one detained individual was a green card holder with criminal involvement that led to his detention.
> Some lawmakers even called for the government to retaliate by investigating Americans who are alleged to work illegally in South Korea.
That’s probably a good idea.
I don’t get the outrage. Are we supposed to only deport illegal workers of certain nationalities?
Lots of space in the great white North for a plant.
Comments here are stupid. No allies, what the fuck are you all smoking
This is why Trump goes bankrupt. He is the worst businessman and has no clue how to treat people with respect
>South Korean companies have been relying on short-term visitor visas or the Electronic System for Travel Authorization to send the workers they need to launch manufacturing facilities or handle other setup tasks.
ESTA cannot be used for **workers**, and definitely should not be used as a wage suppression and tax evasion tool. South Korea has a strict immigration system and does not allow people with visitor visas to work likewise.
Trump says they were here illegally but he says a lot of false shit.
If they were here illegally how many were detained?
„First Time?“
* Canada probably
Welcome to the excited states of America. Where the left nut doesn’t know what the right nut is doing and the poor prick in the middle is getting screwed.
You can shorten that to „South Koreans betrayed after…..“, CTV. No need to sugar coat an established fact.
My understanding is that a lot of the workers were allegedly on the wrong visa. I’m obviously not in the US immigrations office, but if you notice a company has ~450 people on the wrong visa, *surely* instead of performing 450 arrests for what is clearly an issue with the company’s internal policy and advice, you reach out to the company, tell them they’re in breach and that they have a set period of time (e.g. 3 months) to help their employees get the right visa before action is taken? In an ideal world, you also work with the company to fast-track a fix.
*Surely* you go about this in a way that doesn’t traumatise ~450 individuals and cause a major diplomatic incident for what appears to have been an error of their company rather than them?
This seems like a catastrophic blunder in every sense of the word. These aren’t people plotting and scheming to enter the US illegally, these are people on the wrong end of bureaucracy that need help doing things correctly, and you’ll really sour the working relationship that company has with the US.
Unfortunately, Joe Billy Bob does not have the skills and education to build batteries or the work ethic to show up more than a couple days a week. I would guess that most of the workers picked up were here on work visas. They build these plants in Red States to create jobs, but they find that the education is so lacking in the State that competent workers are hard to find. Also few trained Americans want to move to a Red States. So the companies have to bring in trained foreign workers with visas to do the work. The States need to setup vocational training for workers, so they can learn the skills to be an entry level worker, then these plants would hire them. Unfortunately, Americans do not want to do blue collar work, because it involves manual labor and having to show up on the weekend or at night to work. Foreign workers show up every day rain or shine, why because they have a work ethic.
Ummmm i don’t like Trump as much as the next guy, but how are people not upset that an international corporation illegally sent hundreds of foreign nationals to do work that could’ve used American workers? I’m confused. Things have become so politicized that people are seeing this as bad???
South Korea didn’t pay enough in a grift.
A lot of people here just taking the „they were illegal“ at face value, as if anything coming from the Trump Administration can ever be given the benefit of the doubt.
This is a pretty strong message alright: don’t invest in the US. It’s a waste of time, and those you send there might get ICE’d.
Most Americans prefer that we get those jobs. I know, as it’s the life blood of my community and people feel like they won the lottery if they land a job at the local car factory (or the multiple supply industries). When people are here illegally, they will work for less, causing legal American citizens to receive less compensation as well, IF they’re lucky enough to get the jobs. Anyone here legally should have no problem with this. Every successful country gatekeeps. In fact, America is much more liberal than many countries when it comes to giving out work permits, green cards, etc.
I think many people are so anti-Trump, they forget that many of their fellow Americans are actually being harmed by this infiltration. I’m one of the lucky few in my town that has a great job at our car factory, but many more are hurting.
Trump keeps spouting get all the companies to build in America. Then what happens his goons the ice agents looking to increase their bonus by arresting most of the South Korean car workforce. And now the South Korean government officials have to fly to America to check that the workers are not harmed after they were arrested and chained up . Why would anybody bother working in the US now under trumps dictatorship.