Korean techs were sent to Georgia to build out the plant, not to take all the manufacturing jobs once it was up and running. German and Japanese techs have done it before with their various US plants.
That's SOP for any such venture. When Exxon wants to build a refinery in Port of Spain, it doesn't spend two years training locals to create it from scratch.
Meanwhile, what would shock most Americans is the fact that the imagine of Koreans in shackles has continuously been front page news in Korea for weeks. Aside from being an affront to Korean national pride, the detentions highlight the fact that for years Korea has been asking for visa protection for workers sent here to install equipment.
Governor Kemp and US trade officials have been begging the Koreans to return without success. Perhaps President Trump can undo this mess.
Why should Trump fix this mess? The mess was created by Hyundai. If they needed the labor from Korea, they should’ve followed the proper protocol to get them here.
“Korean techs were sent to Georgia to build out the plant, not to take all the manufacturing jobs once it was up and running.”
They are still required to have visas to do that work.
The folks in charge failed to procure the appropriate visas for the workers and the workers paid the price.
Were these Korean techs here legally or illegally?
If legally, then Trump is right.
If illegally (as it appears), then Trump is dead wrong. We can’t have a two-tiered system here. If you’re an illegal, you’ve got to go.
Plus, it’s demoralizing to the ICE agents who are just trying to do their jobs.
If Hyundai can't get bringing workers into the nation right
why am I expected to believe they can build products right?
But as of the other day...when she last mentioned it...she's unconvinced. Maybe this piece will convince her.
This could be an interesting thread.
There are means to bring in experts. That is NOT what happened.
“No one is above the law.”
famous Democrat
Yes, Mr. President, but they could've used people in the country illegally.
There were several hundred Koreans.
I would assume one would know that a work visa would be required. We’ve been told Asian education is superior.
When I arrived in the UK, my passport was stamped “EMPLOYMENT AND RECOURSE TO PUBLIC FUNDS PROHIBITED” at Gatwick.
I understand their point on this, but to me it’s just like TSA pulling little old women out of line to give them a full screening occasionally so that they don’t appear to be stereotyping and profiling who they are really after.
You have to show that there is no discrimination involved in what they are doing, and this highlights that perfectly. Did they know what was going on with those workers? Of course, but if they just took the Mexicans that they were after and let the Koreans go then the discrimination claims would have been through the roof after that incident.
I hope Trump sits down this week and explains why it was that ICE and CBP just HAD to follow through on what they did due to the incredibly close scrutiny that was given to them during that search. It may have been a technicality but by not following through it will cast a huge discrimination shadow on the entire process if they didn’t do it.
That's complete and total BS. It's impossible that all 475 of those detailed and deported were "experts." They were Korean assembly line workers snuck into the U.S. illegally by the company. And that plant had been built on the promise that it would provide hundreds of "well-paying" jobs for the locals. That was BS too.
Consider the source...
Trump is trying to use tariffs to spur more foreign investment in manufacturing in the U.S, manufacturing in the U.S. which builds domestic employment, domestic job skills, and over time some transference of those things to U.S. owned companies. But, he is in part ignoring that no countries in the world have invested more in manufacturing in the U.S. than Japan and South Korea - hundreds of billion$.
[And, does foreign investment in manufacturing help domestic economic and industrial matters and eventually domestic manufacturers? Yes. A case in point: Multiple foreign companies set up motorcycle manufacturing in Thailand beginning some years ago, making Thailand a motorcycle manufacturing hub in Asia. Thailand now sports its own domestic motorcycle companies and of high quality. Thai workers and engineers honed their skills with foreign manufacturers and eventually built motorcycle companies of their own.]
The Chinese have built thousands of modern factories. Almost all the work was done by Chinese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hyundai_Motor_Company_manufacturing_facilities
Hyundai has plants outside of Korea, including one in Alabama, and should know the visa rules.
What you fail to mention is all they needed was legal paperwork
to do work in the U.S. that’s all.
Ellabell, Georgia is about 30 miles west of Savannah.
“Korean techs were sent to Georgia to build out the plant”
There’s a visa process for that.
They didn’t follow it.
Sounds like a case of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. If ICE didn’t go after illegals because of who they were then a Lib gets a hold of that information and cries racism and all that, so ICE does their job seemingly impart and people still whine. I say ICE, deport them all let the courts sort it out.