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At least 475 workers detained in major ICE raid at US Hyundai factory

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42 points wslh | 2 comments | 06 Sep 25 02:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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code_martial ◴[06 Sep 25 05:23 UTC] No.45146832[source]▶
On-shore manufacturing requires an on-shore workforce. I’m wondering how this will sit with any company that wants to invest in on-shore manufacturing. I mean, what’s the big picture here?
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metalman ◴[06 Sep 25 12:53 UTC] No.45148861[source]▶
the picture is that these workers must have been in the US under a completly above board legal framework to build out a battery plant and presumably they are a specialised ,experienced work force, under contract, Korea right, one of the most orderly countrys on the planet, rich too, tell them to go home, they go home

so this must be a contrived way to eliminate competition, after all of the contracts were signed. reputational damage to the US is incalculable and a strategic retreat by all other countrys becomes likely these people came with there familys, were detained at work, with there kids comming home from school to no parents full tilt, psycho freak move

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dilyevsky ◴[07 Sep 25 00:10 UTC] No.45154060[source]▶
If they were all working on b1/b2 visas (like actually setting up lines and doing other work and not just training locals) as this source is claiming[0] it’s a clear violation and slam dunk case. They will be deported and barred entry for like 10 years. Also these laws were on the books since forever just hard to enforce unless someone is being completely obvious which seems to be the case here

[0] - https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ice-raid-hyundai-plant-georgia-021...

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1. metalman ◴[07 Sep 25 12:19 UTC] No.45157540[source]▶
Right, but my point is that isueing (very embarassing) orders for those workers, to leave, knowing that these workers would have only the vaugest, or no, notion of the laws involved in the contract, as they very likely could not fill out any of the paper work themselves, VS a mass arrest that will likely derail further investment from some of the major allies of the US. The net effect of this and other actions looks something like a modern equivilant of the Chinese "Cultural Revolution", but with an economy vastly more integrated and dependent with the rest of the world, but with no clear policy statement, and edicts bieng issued and revoked on a day to day basis. The US could have told the Korean's , go home, in a soto voice, they would blush, go home, and ask for another chance to do business, that it was 500 workers @ a major new car plant means that they were given some sort of "dont worry about it" verbal assurance, and have been double crossed, which is a game changer.
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2. dilyevsky ◴[07 Sep 25 23:26 UTC] No.45163146[source]▶
Yes yes not letting foreign for profit corporations to blatantly break immigration laws to save a few million is exactly like cultural revolution. They totally got double crossed that is the most logical explanation