Posted on 09/08/2025 9:49:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last week's raid on a huge electrical battery plant in Georgia, netting 475 illegal aliens, put paid to the myth that those foreigners illegally present in our country only take jobs Americans don't want. Actually, they're like anyone else, and take the good jobs when they can get them.
According to the New York Times:
Immigration officials arrested nearly 500 workers, most of them South Korean citizens, at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia on Thursday, as the Trump administration continues its far-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration.
The raid, which U.S. officials have called the largest-ever Homeland Security enforcement operation at a single location, stirred tensions with the South Korean government, a valued trade partner of the United States. It also revealed competing interests within the Trump administration between the president’s push to expand manufacturing in the United States and his aggressive efforts to crack down on immigration. The plant at the center of the operation was co-owned by the South Korean carmaker Hyundai.
U.S. immigration authorities said the detained employees — many of them hired by subcontractors to help finish the plant’s construction — were working or living in the United States illegally.
Here's what ran in the press last year at the announcement of the LG plant with its large foreign investment:
Georgia and southeast coastal counties are subsidizing Hyundai and its suppliers in the form of $2.1 billion in tax breaks, construction costs, discount land and other perks, a deal that Gov. Brian Kemp announced would produce good-paying jobs for hard-working Georgians.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The largesse comes with conditions. Hyundai Metaplant, the LG joint-venture battery facility, and five affiliated Hyundai suppliers must together invest $5.545 billion and hire at least 8,500 workers by 2031 at an average annual yearly salary of $58,105. Those jobs must be retained until 2048.
Instead of hiring Americans at those living-wage salaries, they hired illegals from their home country, with LG saying it was just the work of rogue subcontractors and they didn't know a thing about it otherwise.
Kind of dubious.
475 who need to be deported THIS WEEK.
Be sure all the wives, children, mistresses, and other related go with them.
That probably bring the number to around 600.
So, what do you guys think? Someone in Korea shipped a bunch of employees to Mexico during pudding-head’s admin, and had them “walk across” into the US, and then report to GA to work at this place? (This “Someone” would fit the description of a subcontractor from Korea’s story).
If not, how did all the Koreans get here illegally?
My understanding is that they came in legally under trainee visas then overstayed.
55,000,000 here on US Visas...
Tell the ROKs we’ll meet them half way, send the illegals to Mogadishu.
Koreans are very smart, hardworking , industrious and ethically challenged people.
They get things done but it is not always a pleasant process.
In this case , they may actually be sending some of their best which may not necessarily be such good thing for the rest of us Americans
This is always a problem when you have a major foreign company making a huge investment in relocating a major manufacturing facility in the US.
They always want to bring a lot of their foreign nationals in to work in their facility and it is not always easy to strike a balance. Under the Wild, Wild West Biden Era immigration policies foreign workers like these Koreans just did what everyone else was doing and blew off compliance with immigration law and compliance
We need to bring our troops and equipment home from ROK. Clearly they are not an ally.
I bet legal Americans are lining up to do those jobs.
Samsung does the same at their Austin, TX semiconductor plant. But most are in very low paying factory cleaning positions. They hire the illegals through a 3rd party company that hires sub contracted labor. That way they can claim ignorance.
A few years back a night shift worker was fooling around with one of the female illegals, his wife found out and called INS and all were let go, no idea if they were kicked out of country. Management had to do the fab cleaning for a month until a 3rd party personnel company was hired and a new batch of illegals brought aboard.
Lie, Cheat and Steal are common South Korean management methods to get ahead.
When foreign businesses come in, we need to tell them that the JOBS are for Americans, not their nationals! We need to check all foreign businesses to see who they hired.
How about the one in Cato, NY...
Keep that place in mind the next time your purchase a nutrition bar...
The biz in my reply #13 is not foreign owned.
And considering the lousy economic conditions in Upstate NY, hiring illegals is unforgivable.
Semiconductor plants are mostly automated.
I live 2 miles from the plant in a gated community. The Manager of the battery factory (where 3 workplace deaths have occurred in a little over a year) lives directly across the street from me. I suspect that house will be on the market soon.
Hyundai/Kia has violated the agreement and has brought disgrace and dishonor upon them. Trump needs to pound that home. Asian cultures highly value honor and integrity. Call them out and threaten to rip away the tax benefits. They lied. 475 jobs mant for American’s given to illegals.
A bunch of people looked the other way, our society is full of corruption.
Asian countries “value honor?” Please. That’s a myth. Like Fang Fang is honorable...ha.
Koreans have no business ethics as we know them. They live to gain the upper hand in business. That is in fact life.
A contract is subject to negotiation right down to and including the final payment.
I know from very painful and expensive experience from dealing with the Korean biggies them selves. They do however make good customers.
They should be fined, with fine paid *before* deportation.
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