Posted on 09/18/2025 1:38:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ATLANTA (AP) — Hyundai Motor Group on Thursday confirmed it is going forward with previously announced plans to expand its Georgia plant, just weeks after an immigration raid delayed the startup of an electric vehicle battery plant at the site.
As part of a broader investment strategy, Hyundai said it would spend $2.7 billion to increase production capacity at the Ellabell site by 200,000 over the next three years, to a total of 500,000 vehicles a year.
The company first announced the expansion in March at the grand opening of the plant west of Savannah, and had said in August that it would invest an additional $5 billion in United States overall. But the raid, which included arrests of more than 300 South Korean citizens, led to questions about the wisdom of the Asian nation investing in the U.S..
The company said it now plans to produce 10 models of electric and hybrid gas-electric vehicles in Georgia, up from the current two the plant has been assembling as it ramps up production. Hyundai says it’s still on track to expand production worldwide to 5.6 million vehicles a year by 2030. The automaker pledged that 60% of those vehicles will be electric or hybrid powered, targeting sales in South Korea, North America and Europe.
Hyundai said that it plans to make more than 80% of vehicles sold in the United States domestically by 2030, with total domestic content increasing from 60% to 80%. For the first time, the vehicles would include a mid-sized pickup truck, a key vehicle class in the U.S. market. The company already makes the Santa Cruz model, a four-door compact pickup, that it started selling in 2021.
Hyundai CEO José Muñoz has said the immigration raid will delay opening the battery plant by at least two to...
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The democrats were celebrating and saying the Koreans would pull out and abandon this plant. They were wrong, as usual.
Probably need a new recruiting and HR department in there, soemwhere...
This thing could have turned out very badly...diplomatically and economically.
It is concerning you are siding with Korea to circumnavigating hiring American s. ICE does a great job and exposed globalists BS you apparently favor. GTH globalist dipstick
DJT himself is on record saying that that shouldn’t have happened. Remember...in my post I said “knowingly and deliberately”. I’m not saying there weren’t violations...I have no idea if there were. But if there were I refuse to believe that Hyundai,one of the world’s largest car makers,was knowingly and deliberately violating our laws.
Only a haughty jerk says this;
“ In future local or regional ICE officials must use real caution when moving against a facility like that”
Who the hell are you?
Don’t buy Hyundai. I wrote a letter to their main marketing guy awhile ago telling him that bc he was doubling down on DEI, that I would take my money elsewhere.
And BTW...it’s *absolutely* understandable that they would want Koreans who have probably worked for Hyundai for a long time to be there to get things started.Just think of Boeing’s plant in Japan...do you think that it’s staffed entirely by Japanese? Highly unlikely.
These were common construction workers that is why ICE went in. Toyota built a plant in NC using American labor. So screw off. When ICE wants your advice they will jerk your chain.
It works like this:
Hyundai hires a contractor for the job. Then, the contractor hires smaller contractors to do the work. The actual illegal employees get hired at that level or lower. When exposed everybody just looks around says, “Gee, there sure were a bunch of workers on the site who could only speak spanish. But we’re 5% under budget!”
I’ll go out on a limb and predict this plant will never be completed as now planned. The $7500 tax credit expires two weeks. Demand will definitely take a hit as the retail price jumps.
How to tell the world that you are naive without saying "I sure am naive."
If such a corporation were to do something like that they’d have to weigh,very,very carefully,the pluses and minuses of deliberately violating such laws beforehand...particularly when they knew that there’s “a new sheriff in town” who’s got a bug up his a$$ regarding immigration and related issues. It just wouldn’t make sense for them to do so.
Can we catch them again??????
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
But, but that raid was going to stifle foreign investment.
That's what can happen when an individual or an organization breaks the law.
The onus is on the law breaker, not the law enforcer.
So, is ICE supposed to look the other way because enforcing the law might upset the lawbreaker?
One major reason Trump was elected is to enforce our laws without bias or favoritism and that is what he and Tom Homan and the administration are trying to do.
This incident wasn't just some subcontractor with a truck load of illegal Mexicans picked up at Home Depot to work at the plant.
Hyundai was caught red-handed with over 400 Korean workers who were here illegally.
How did they get here? How did the 400 Korean illegals end up working for a Korean car manufacturer?
Those 400 illegals didn't just happen to be 400 Koreans wandering around America who all happened to stumble into the Hyundai employment office.
It all boils down to this: DJT is on record as having said that it shouldn't have happened and that he talked to the ROK's President and they got things straightened out. If DJT isn't worried about it then I'm not. Feel free to prattle on about how this country was brought to the brink of collapse by something that was very probably an oversight by a major foreign company that somehow didn't fully understand our 1,687 pages of immigration laws.
Your words, not mine.
I never said that or anything like that.
You are arguing with yourself.
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