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Am I missing something context? The article talks about Korean workers being sent home because they have the wrong visa. Did they vote for this?
The US rounded up hundreds of Koreans who were overseeing the construction of a new factory a week or two ago. They had the correct visas for their roles but were held for more than a week. Trump said they could stay but they left because nobody wants to stay in a dangerous, fascist hellhole like the US. Now Korean companies and workers are pulling entirely out of the US and cutting plans and investments. FAFO.
That is a good meal for the leopards indeed.
Those faces aren't going to eat themselves.
A few did, the rest did not. ICEs theatrics aside.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/10/south-korea-work-visa-immigration-raid-hyundai-ICE/
Which is a shitty excuse for not having the correct visa. If the US.government won't issue visas don't come.
Hyundai deliberatly endangered the.welfare of their employees by having them break the law. Getting away.with it for a few years by nudge nudge wink wink looking the other way is also pathetic.
So.lets see what Soith Korea's stance is about working in South Korea on the wrong visa ?
So if they worked for a South Korean company were being paid by a South Korean company doesn't that mean the part that you highlighted saying they can't work or be paid by an American company null and void?
The visas did not allow employment, but were valid for work-related travel. As they were employees of a foreign company here on behalf of the foreign company the visas were valid for that purpose. ICE changed the meaning of those visas after the fact to save face and justify their illegal raid and detentions.
Many were here under esta which allows travel and meetings, but not labor.
Did any worker build the site or only oversee stuff?
All the articles I saw said there were 475 people detained/inspected and 300+ were Korean. That's nearly a 2 to 1 ratio of 'supervisors' to workers, which seems pretty sus, even for a union gig.
Not like the plant was a series of high tech assembly robots that need to be installed with high precision to be and to assemble high tech vehicles...
Oh! Wait...
Yep, and installing those robots is labor. Labor which is, again, prohibited when visiting on esta.
There's also planning, specifying, inspecting, etc...
But hey! So much for foreign investments!
No matter which way you want to spin this narrative:
Overstaying a visa in Korea would absolutely not land you the same treatment, but go ahead with your whataboutism. You keep digging that hole 'Mericaints. Eventually you'll make it to Korea.
Any company sending employees to the SHITHOLE COUNTRY that is the USA is obviously endangering them.
Fucking QED.
Canada would likely welcome this investment, but it will be tricky to choose a site given all our Flatlanders are demented from not seeing Ocean.
So, pick a region with a shoreline, and hope that's enough.
They invested in this to avoid the Trump tariffs so really a complete own goal from the USA.
Most didn't actually, they were here on essentially visit visas working for the setup stint and getting paid back home in SK. Hyundai says they did it to skirt around the US's poor short term labor policies, some say Hyundai did it for cheaper SK labor in spinning up the factory, and ICE says they did it because boogey man evil foreign entity garbage.
Regardless, I wouldn't stick around for a second shot no matter how many guarantees Trump is offering, since he flip flops on a minute basis, and was likely completely aware of the planned ICE operation. Hyundai might just try to recruit new workers from SK if Trump allows, but I'm sure not many if any are going to take that offer after this fiasco.
They claim there just isn't any qualified workers so they had to use their own nationals. The USA doesn't seem to actually have any good short term work visas they could really apply for so it's a mixture of everything bad...
I think it's more the shock of having their countrymen in chains that forced the Koreans to go home. It was front page news in SK.
Americans voted to 'make America great again' and now people who are capable of setting up manufacturing in USA are leaving or hesitant to go there.
The state just fucked itself is the angle I assume.