I’m all for POTUS putting the arm on foreign manufacturers to open their factories here in Murka, because we need more industry Over Here. So more jobs for Murkins, even in industries where our market doesn’t especially care for the actual product. Clearly, however, something got lost in translation with the recent Hyundai cock-up in Georgia:
Federal authorities say 475 people were detained this week in what Homeland Security Investigations called the largest single-site enforcement operation in its history.
The raid took place Thursday at the HLGA battery plant site in southeast Georgia, a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, as part of a months-long probe into alleged unlawful employment practices and other federal crimes.
…and this is even worse:
According to South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, more than 300 of the detained workers were South Korean nationals.
So in case the SouKs (and others) haven’t got the plot yet: opening a manufacturing plant in the U.S.A. does not mean you can staff the place with a whole bunch of your own citizens not allowed to work Over Here. You tossers.
Anyway, the illegal Koreans are immediately going to be “reshored” back in their own country instead of staying in some manky ICE detainment camp awaiting deportation.
We want the foreign factories, not the workers. We’ve got the “worker” part covered, thank you.
And the Victory Girls have nailed it.
And who allowed the 475 to enter in the first place?
They came on travel or tourist visas, legally. Or at least they were legal until they started working or the visa expired.
For all their blather and wordpiddle about the sanctity of American Labor, the leftoids sure love to snuggle up to foreign scabs.
They are construction workers, not factory workers. They were going home when it was built anyhow, and the company thought the paperwork was done. I don’t know if there are differences in the construction between American and South Korean designs, but if so, they did not want to invest in training temps.