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Over 300 South Koreans to return home after arrests at US Hyundai plant
(www.aljazeera.com)
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I've seen this article a whole bunch now, and I have yet to see anyone day if these SK workers were even here under false visas or something? They say they haven't been charged, but are they just rounding up "legitimate" immigrant labor now, not even holding to their own flimsy pretense?
from another source
Thank you! That's... not much better, but at least it hasn't gotten quite as bad as it's going to...?
sigh. This shit is so fucking exhausting. just. fuck.
Using falsely visas is SK's fault, but raiding $7.6 billion plant with excessive force is too much. They could have given a warning and time to clear up the visa paperwork beforehand, but they didn't.
cruelty is the point
It was an EV plant.
The disruptions are by design.
Trump is going to take over the manufacturing plant.
Wow such a typical big corpo move. Hundreds of people working for Hyundai, none employed by them. Legal issues can be punted to contractors, while they review themselves real hard (they promise).
Appreciate the context. Still feels excessive, but at least more warranted than a lot of their other activities. I really hope they just go after corporations, but I doubt they will.
Seems like it. Pretty sure all they care about is being able to report “we arrested 450 illegals” regardless of the actual truth of the situation.
and by 'illegals' they mean 'brown people' (regardless of origin or nationality or legal status to work here).
or even actual brownness. i have a friend from Ukraine that got called "wetback". worth noting, she's a US citizen. so… you know… look. racists aren't exactly known for their critical thinking skills
Yeah. If you look at what the directives have been from above, it's very very obvious in retrospect that ICE would be just wandering around arresting people completely at random, because they will literally get in trouble if they do literally anything else.
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.
Umm... Trump regime already removed their hoods off about supposedly removing illegal immigrants. It is pogrom towards any foreigners.
Yes.
ice is only mostly going after immigrants that are only in one place, the allegedled undocumented or illegals, are probably not going to be working in such public areas.