Automation is separate issue. Automation affects all countries equally. The point is to keep the factories here in the good old USA.
Actually, it doesn’t. Because of US and Canadian unions, many factories in the US are not automated to the same degree as they are overseas. The first car fully assembled by robots with no human hands touching it in the assembly process was the 1990 Nissan 300ZX, which was assembled in Japan.
Number of US branded cars fully or even *majority* assembled by robots even today? Zero. Number of US marque plants capable of doing so? Zero.