Importing SK workers and underpaying them is another example of evil corporate hegemony. Always at the detriment to US workers. Not that tRUMP has any worries abouts US workers though. Repukes are just using this for political points.

Surprising that the AFL-CIO would support non union foreign workers at a construction site.

All those jobs they touted, but they can't fill the positions needed without importing labor. I realize they were contracted positions and not officially Hyundai, it is still required labor to make the company work.

$35/hr. minimum, full benefits, pension, health care, and other benefits. Billionaire-class? Screaming like a bunch of Howler monkeys:

once people get desperate enough during recession.

As a retired Union worker, it REALLY IRKS me when I see Unions getting behind ANY REPUKE! They've sh7t on Union workers since Tricky Dick Nixon used them to beat up protestors around 1970 or so. Last decent Republican was Dwight D. That's going back 70 years.

Foreign companies often use their workers to build their plants & then after completion, management stays & the others go home

You're correct. I did find out this plant just started producing cars in 2025. Basically, a brand-new plant. I figured it was the one built back in 2007 or so. I used to buy Kias and remember the signage of the earlier Georgia plant on the wall. Oh well, shoot first and ask questions later.

That these SKorean workers were a mix of engineers, construction supervisors, and skilled workers who were in the US on special 90-day visas issued just for work on that plant. If that's the case, one might think ICE would have known that . . . but, then, this is Trump's administration we are talking about.

If so, you're implyig that South Korea bribed the Biden administration, with Sens. Warnock and Ossoff on duty. That strikes me as unlikely.

A mass kidnapping equals an agreement made. All good if T gets paid. Wonder where the payment is deposited? Disgusting!

and of course to let him feel good about hurting and killing people.

After all, they're not really humans anyway, just criminals and
drug dealers.

That's how the so-called "christians" justify absolutely un-christian
behavior toward whoever they think of as non-human. That makes
them holy saviors of those they think of as human like them...
except, of course, it really doesn't.

Depends on the definition of traveling here for business (vs work) I suppose

OP link

Traveling to the U.S. for meetings, conferences, or just going around to meet your employees is very different than actually working an hourly or salaried job full time.

Hyundai investing money to build the plant; highly advanced automation in their factories, why the heck shouldn’t they be allowed to have technical support to get the place set up, people trained, processes established??
Seems reasonable to me.

But they need to ensure they have the proper visas.

...that a visa for "business" applies to meetings, conferences, etc., not actually working a job here.

They can crow they arrested over 500 people, get their bonus, and never bother to state that the arrests were illegitimate and the arrestees were let go or thrown out anyway.

These are not criminals, they are a necessary and vibrant part of our community.

Otherwise why wouldnt they just go back to work

so over-staying the 90 days or doing work that is outside the specific visa authorization scope are common violations.

CNN reported ICE had been planning this raid for months. They knew what they were doing. The want these types of headlines. Fear is the point. They'll discourage foreign workers from coming to the US. As if Georgia would have enough of the right skilled workers for all the jobs.

This wasn't the typical Trump Home Depot raid just trying to scoop up anyone they could find. They had reason to believe that visa terms were being violated.

And quite frankly, if they were here on tourist visas or under visa waiver for tourist/business, then they should be sent back.

I'm not getting why this is so controversial.

They actually went for three previously identified Hispanics. When they got there they discovered more "brown people" aka fur re nerz and they grabbed them, too. No bullsh¡t. I read it in ONE source.

Nothing unusual about sending them back to Korea. Where should they be sent instead?

this hostage deal.

TSF is ALWAYS about money!!

Theil would not like that.

I would mention Chump and Alfred Nobel before I dynamited
the plant and flew off.

You win. No plant and no jobs. Another American ghost town thanks to chump.

These things are handled in a more diplomatic manner
Not now.

It's a billion dollar investment. Destroying it over a few hundred subcontractors without valid work visas would be absurd.

I will wait to see after all the dust settles if these people were actually here improperly.

The Miller Gestapo regularly arrests people with valid green cards and just cancels them. They are also canceling entire groups with Temporary Protected Status.

We will see what these people were working on and what there actual status was eventually.

I would not be surprised if Hyundai just walks away from this whole project. You can better believe any other foreign investor is not going to be looking hard at this before building anything here.