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

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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.

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