US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia, where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.
The Pew Research Center, citing preliminary Census Bureau data, said the US labour force lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January through July.
I know this isn’t a real source but I know someone who works at this plant and he said most were here on 3 month visit visas.
Essentially they’d be paid back in SK for their 3 months of work and would cycle in and out in rotations.
Out of all the insane raids ICE has conducted, this one is actually quite a big find since it’s Hyandai essentially bypassing visa requirements for cheap labor.
Most likely ICE isn’t sure whether to charge the immigrant workers or fine Hyandai since Hyandai is the one that offered them jobs and told them the process of working under a visit visa.
I think they will likely get deported without any criminal charges or individual fines, but will obviously get blacklisted from any future entrance into the US.
So many incorrect spellings of Hyundai, hopefully ice does the same and the case goes nowhere.
Samsung must have corporate beef with them because my autocorrect is set to Hyandai and not Hyundai lmao
햔대 ㅋㅋ
하얀 데이
they keep saying “white day” instead of “modern” 현대 lol
… You what