South Korea got pretty rattled when 475 of their nationals were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory, operated by Hyundai-LG, in Georgia on September 4th. ICE officials alleged South Koreans had overstayed their visas or held permits that didn’t allow them to perform manual labor. Some of these people had proper visas but had a prior traffic ticket.
They were handcuffed and jailed, causing great consternation among foreign investors.
The South Korean president, Lee Jae Myung, called the raid “bewildering” and warned on Thursday that the raid could discourage future investment.
Trump had an interesting post on Truth Social:
Talk about walking a tightrope! In order to satisfy his xenophobic, anti immigrant, globalist base and yet not antagonize the foreign people that are actually funding development projects in this country, here's the message, we will let your people in, for the amount of time it takes for you to build our factories and train us to do their job and then we will boot your ass out again as soon as possible.
If LG and Hyundai are smart, they will tell us where to go stick it. Why would you want to have partners like us?
2 comments:
You are being adolescent and naive once again. Every successful investor expects exactly this: import talent to teach the trade and when they have raised the level of
the workforce they are no longer needed and can return to their prior employment.
If the talent that is imported is smart they will withhold the important knowledge that only they know so they are still valuable and kept on. It may be Darwinian but it is called good business.
I guess the Koreans don't see it that way. https://newrepublic.com/post/200559/ice-just-destroyed-us-relations-south-korea-hyundai-immigration-georgia
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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