South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

It has now emerged that Trump asked his officials to “encourage” the detained South Korean workers to extend their stay in the country and train American employees, foreign ministry officials in Seoul said at a briefing.

The president “emphasised that the detained Korean nationals were skilled workers and suggested they either remain in the U.S. to contribute to training the American workforce or be returned to South Korea, depending on Seoul’s stance”, a South Korean official said, according to the Financial Times.

Many of the arrested workers were exhausted and in shock and foreign minister Cho Hyun suggested that they instead return immediately to their home country. They could be allowed to go back to the U.S. for work later if necessary, the officials said.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      The joke of the Trump Taj Mahal and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino was that Trump still made money on both operations. What ultimately bankrupted the casinos was all the unpaid debts and obligations and liens by contractors.

      He’d hire people, refuse to pay them when the work was complete, and take them to court over every little thing. The business was siloed off from Trump’s personal holdings, so the only thing anyone could collect on was a building that had liabilities far in excess of revenues (which Trump was embezzling anyway). By the time Taj Mahal was sold off and Plaza Hotel and Casino was demolished, they were underwater several times their book value.

      This was a miserable way to run a business. And it wasn’t a particularly savvy way to make money long term. But as a Bust Out, it went relatively smoothly. The state officials of New Jersey played along in exchange for handsome contributions to their election funds, the regulators stayed out of Trump’s hair(piece), and the Trump family left the market richer than when they started, which is all they really cared about.

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        Also the money laundering got a little too sloppy so his russian mob handlers told him to burn it.

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      The Mob bosses’s idiot nephew with a loud mouth that pushed his way to a managerial position even though he has no talent at all but thinks he is the smartest person in the room because everyone is afraid of him and his family.

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    Step 1: Tariffs the entire world. Encourage companies to build factories in the country to avoid said tariffs. Step 2: Raid and arrest people sent to build said factories. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit???

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    If I was one of those workers, the only way I’d set foot on American soil again is on a pilgrimage to piss on Trump’s grave.

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    The incompetence is off the charts, it’s obvious ICE are just racist goons who act first ask questions never.

    “Oh you want me to arrest people different than me? Oh hell yes!”

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    They could be allowed to go back to the U.S. for work later if necessary, the officials said.

    Yeah, that’s totally reasonable. I’d totally come back to get raided by racist goons a second time. What planet do these fucking idiots come from? I’d pull all investments from America if I was a from a not insane foreign nation.

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    I must apologize for the Americans. They are idiots. We have purposely trained them wrong, as a joke.

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    The probelm with people like trump is that hes too stupid to know hes stupid and too evil to care about anyone else.

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    imagine all the vehicles made by people in place where the environment is not taken care of with high levels of pollution everywhere that also does not properly fund education and has just made sure that all the properly trained people from some other country that could work/train would not want to work there that could potentially be on United States roads soon

    fetal alcohol syndrome is also still a big issue so there is that too

    think about the factory close where currently staying that has had multiple fatal accidents this year with one of those involving a forklift having over thousand pounds on it that took a curve too hard and all the load fell on someone with only the head undamaged still talking

    where are we heading in the United States? back to no standards like when that chicken plant caught fire in North Carolina

    good ol’ days had some moments sure but overall they really sucked