How the Hyundai raid could upend Trump's dream of more U.S. factories

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The Trump administration touted last week’s raid at a partially constructed Hyundai-LG car battery plant in Georgia as a victory for American labor and evidence that he won’t tolerate unauthorized workers.

But immigration and manufacturing experts say the episode lays bare how U.S. immigration rules hamper foreign companies from bringing in workers crucial to building modern manufacturing centers that President Donald Trump and his predecessors have pursued and that would ultimately employ tens of thousands of American workers.

“Episodes like this are going to make many companies way more cautious before investing here,” said Giovanni Peri, a professor of economics at the University of California at Davis. “The goal of this administration’s tariffs was luring exactly these kind of factories. And now we are closing the door to some of these companies, who fear they won’t be able to bring in the right workers to set up their plants.”

Hyundai, which issued a statement last week saying it did not believe any of the detained workers were employed directly by the company, did not respond to questions.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hyundai-raid-could-upend-trump-165858389.html

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1. Some details (you couldn't post) I'd heard bits about. There's corp. distance and immigration law and

Immigration lawyers said that most of the workers were here with permission.

The 300 Korean workers who were building the plant for Hyundai’s subcontractors were under the impression they were here legally, Kuck said. They had received clearance from U.S. immigration officials to be at the plant, he said, and reported their whereabouts and the reason for traveling to the U.S. Many of them, he said, had obtained B-1 visas that allow limited business activities.

Other immigration attorneys say many of the several dozen workers from other countries who were detained at the plant had permission to work in the U.S

But U.S. immigration officials said at a news conference after the raid that none of those temporary visas obtained by Koreans or workers from other countries permit working on a construction site. In some cases, the officials said, the visas allowed for business meetings or discrete consulting projects. In other cases, they said, the visas had expired.

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2. Hyundai needs to yank the factory, and announce they're locating in Toronto, or Manchester, or Sydney.

We have truly pissed off one of our (former) strongest allies in East Asia, and the Koreans aren't going to forgive this shit anytime soon.