Raid on Hyundai plant in US swept up workers on visitor visas

[Dulcinea]

(BBC News) Many of the car workers arrested in a huge US workplace immigration raid had violated their visitor visas, officials say.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 475 people, mostly South Korean citizens - were found to be illegally working at a Hyundai battery plant in the state of Georgia on Thursday.

"People on short-term or recreational visas are not authorized to work in the US," ICE said, adding that the raid was necessary to protect American jobs.

South Korea, whose companies have promised to invest billions of dollars in key US industries in the coming years, partly to avoid tariffs, has sent diplomats to Georgia, and called for its citizens' rights to be respected.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-raid-hyundai-plant-georgia-021501258.html

[Lovie777]

1. The GQP US.....

has become a enemy of mankind.

[Easterncedar]

2. South Korea is going to rethink that big investment

Whoever’s really in charge is trying to take us down. Geez, I wonder who wants to drive a wedge between the US and South Korea?

[Gore1FL]

4. I don't think they thought about this that deeply; NAZI masses are not great thinkers.

I think the motivation isn't to affect international policy. It is more of "ThOsE PeOpLe ArE dIfFeReNt FrOm Me, AnD mUsT bE wHy I fAiL," that motivates these policies and people behind them.

[CincyDem]

3. This leads back to the Oval conversation with SoKor president...

When Trump met with the South Korean president, Trump likely wanted something and he didn’t get it. My guess, complete guess, is that his quest for a Nobel Peace Prize led him to push for top-to-top reunification talks.

SK’s reaction was not to Trump’s liking so this is his version of “nice little auto plant ya got there…shame if something happened to it” demonstration.

ICE didn’t just wander in there on a tip. They were there because of a directive that had to come from the top. No local or mid-level ICE gruppenfurher dropped an order that would initiate an international response.

IMHO.

[MichMan]

5. Response by AFL-CIO

Would not have expected the AFL-CIO to be in support of non union foreign workers being brought in under visitor visas.

The president of Georgia's chapter of the AFL-CIO called the raid politically motivated and said ICE has been escalating its presence at workplaces across the state.

"This raid is the latest in an ongoing campaign of harassment that has targeted immigrant Georgians as they try to earn an honest living," Yvonne Brooks said in a statement. "Arresting and detaining workers, who are exploited every day and risk their lives every day on the job, creates an atmosphere of fear that terrorizes workers and their families and increases the workload burden on their coworkers."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/475-people-detained-in-raid-by-ice-other-agencies-at-hyundai-site-in-georgia/ar-AA1LWtrI?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=68bc310fba8f4332b74347d63a61d997&ei=18

[MichMan]

6. Were income, payroll, unemployment and workman's comp taxes being paid?