Foreign businesses may have to pack up and leave, loss of jobs and money.

Side note tho, history is repeating.

300 were SK nationals. How did they get here, where did they stay? Were they paid?
We're they slaves or what?

Just their way of gaming the system.

I 100% realize this is likely just a shakedown by the 🍊 🧩 of 💩, but enforcement of immigration law needed to happen against corporations abusing the system.

This is some Dubai level shit going on.

it defeated the purpose . Hyundi, most likely, would not want to pay american wages. I don't agree with the deportations generally, but a good idea in this case.

System is across the board. Not to mention it was a pretty bipartisan shite show for decades.

I am here with popcorn if people are finally cracking down on corporations.

However, it is probably shakedown and petty paybacks to GA Governor.

If they offshore the job it's the corporation at fault. If the company makes parts offshore it's the company. But... rich folk ...

But that doesn't offset the fact that it didn't help anywhere near the number of residents of the State directly as it was supposed to.

and make sure everything is operational before hiring and training the local workforce.

We are behind technologically now.

'Hyundai Engineering' is a sister company in 'Hyundai Motor Group'.

and then once set up to train the local workforce.

The deadline for completing the construction is such that they had to send all these engineers from the main companies in Korea to make sure all the equipment was installed correctly. These were specialized engineers and had visas that allowed for 90 day stints. And they were within those 90 day stints.

The Koreans are outraged as to get the longer work permits, with the totally gutted federal visa workforce, those are not happening in time.

They are trying to get the plant set up in time. The plant is not operational.

This idea that Koreans are sending highly paid engineers here to take away jobs is insulting to the max.

Making America great?

No charges have been filed.

shown around the world, and particularly within South Korea, was enough of a "message". I expect that will trigger some bad memories amongst their elders.

Politics than anything else.

But this was particularly bad imagery for South Koreans in South Korea (per some articles I saw).

The country already went through a whole impeachment and removal fiasco of their "45-copying" (now-former) President, and now this "incident" happens involving their citizens in the U.S.

It's a "cultural affront".

“Something that's not being reported much re: ICE crackdown at Hyundai-LG Georgia battery factory: Korean companies investing billions cannot get proper visas, are then criminalised for bringing skilled workers to fill gaps American labour…

One of the core issues is that S. Korea has no country-reserved work visa. By contrast, Australia for instance gets E-3 (10,500/year) and Singapore/Chile get H-1B1 (5,400/1,400). Korea has neither, despite FTA status and massive investment commitments.

The Partner with Korea Act, which would in theory allow specialty visas, has been repeatedly introduced in Congress, but never passed. This is seen as a must to facilitate even more Korean investment in batteries, semiconductors, and other industries.

Then there's the cap on the highly competitive H-1B of 85,000 total (65k regular + 20k US master's). No per-country quotas. Processing takes months. Many construction trades don't qualify as "specialty occupations" requiring degrees.”

Link to tweet

After all were they required to provide training or did they choose not to in order to save money by bringing in foreign workers to do the work?

has been going on for years with a wink-wink, but this time white supremacy rules and they just got a taste of it.

In this case, I believe these workers were doing construction work on the facilities.

You have almost exact same issue in AZ with Taiwan's TSMC chip factories -

TSMC delays second Arizona chip plant to 2027 or 2028

where they were apparently using their own labor and the U.S. Unions cried foul.

This is all part of big U.S. corporations spending years and years "outsourcing" and "off-shoring" for "cheap labor".

resulted in other countries "doing their own thing" and subsidizing the training of their own country's employees while we moved our manufacturing stuff overseas (while those nations came up with their own standards for construction and manufacturing locally).

Then most of the Voc-Tech high schools around the country were closed and shoulders were dusted off with immense satisfaction.

Biden TRIED subsidizing efforts HERE to bring this capability back home through passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and related laws, and of course, those laws (and the money associated with them) are being undone and ripped away by 45 as fast as they can torpedo them.

Business, as usual, for this administration.