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What a ridiculous nightmare Puppy Killer is!

hiring laws.

They were hired through a service or a contractor, likely reduced their workman's comp and other liabilities.

Nice. *sigh*

No worker protections. No payroll taxes. Perhaps hired through an intermediary.

That seems more common recently

I think of the people brought over to work in Chinese restaurants. There was an article about it in the New Yorker years ago. I had no idea and think about it every time I see a 12-passenger van parked near the local buffet.

Hell...he was right on TV saying that. Why wasn't he arrested that day or the next?

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And they got this treatment even though Hyundai was investing billions in a new US factory.

It's still going to disrupt their manufacturing ability at that site.

Okay, Hyundai is a large multinational corporation. Am I incredibly naive for thinking that huge international companies don't, as a common business practice, employ shit loads of undocumented workers in high-tech manufacturing plants?

Secondly, where does one find 450 undocumented South Koreans in Georgia?

Thirdly, if Hyundai flew them into the US to work at the plant, did they all just come as tourists and overstay their visit?

Fourthly, If I'm not the naivest person in my zip code, will most of these people be found to have work visas and this is just the latest ICE fuckup?

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construction workers, janitorial staff, etc Possibly assembly workers

ON EDIT: Looks like Korean employees here on business trips. Probably not construction workers or janitors.

and it was my first thought, however the article indicates that the majority were South Korean nationals.

Even accounting for the odd Pablo and Juan on the maintenance staff that still doesn't explain @400 South Korean nationals or explain how they all got here and went to work without the proper work documents.

Again, I could be dense, but something seems off to me.

Not all of the people detained were koreans. If there were general construction workers there, they might have been undocumented, like you might find at many construction sites. I haven't seen any reporting on that aspect of the story yet.

Even if those detained were not direct employees, it is hard to build or operate a plant when so many subcontractors just disappear

as if MAGA voters are applying for these jobs

I'd really like to see these corporations pull up stakes and move elsewhere. Let trump deal with the fallout of no investment money, no work, and bulging rolls of unemployed people. Maybe then people would start to strike and take back their government.

They're alleging that the work they were doing was not covered by visa. It's bullshit, of course. They went in there on reports of spanish speakers and swept up legal korean workers because they have complete disregard for the law and want big numbers for the headlines.

This was the battery site under construction next to the auto plant. This is a joint venture with LG and is being overseen by Hyundai Engineering. So the report that Hyundai Motors didn't employ any of these workers could be true under any number of scenarios, including completely above-the-board arraignments.

As a former owner of several Hyundai’s I can vouch for the company. They build a good, reliable, economical vehicle. That is why I believe there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. I don’t think that a car company as big and successful as Hyundai would violate the law. IMO this is Homeland Security just rounding up people irregardless of the law. They saw foreign looking people and rounded them up for the numbers. There will be more to this story I can sure you.

Hopefully that means they're still checking the visas. But, you know--ICE. They don't seem to care much about legitimate visas.

MAGAs everywhere are cheering that headline.

mental asylums? How many have been eating the cars and the dogs? Let me guess? None! None of them match the profile of what Trump claimed were the targets for ICE. These are folks who are just trying to make an honest living. This fascism in America is all on the whim of a racist felon psychopath whose wife came here on a visa fraud. Fuck him!

Some had Visas that had expired. Some had visa waivers that should have prevented them from working.

This is all just a dog and pony show. These aren't criminals, they are people here legally who didn't stay up on their paperwork, that's not a criminal offense.

and ICE had no business doing it. Does Donny Dipshit really want to screw up our relationship with South Korea too? If I were the South Korean president about now, I would be raising particular hell with him!

Where are the fines and enforcement against corporations and individual businesses?

These people had LEGAL VISAS! They were not "illegal immigrants". They were here on LEGAL work visas. Go read the damn article, not just the headline or the clip.

They want manufacturing companies to move here and then do this.
Maybe the dummy will come to Ohio and try it at Honda and all the support companies. Japan will drop all it's US bonds. What a blooming idiot.

to work the machines required.