South Korea says immigration raid could impact US investment – DW – 09/11/2025
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The raid at a Hyundai plant was by far the largest single-site anti-immigration swoop by the Trump administration. The incident has caused outrage in South Korea.
  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    32 minutes ago

    Well Duh. Companies don’t want to spend money in a country they aren’t welcome.

    American manufacturing is dying because of Trump. I’m in the manufacturing industry and 90% of our customers stopped purchasing in November and went into money saving mode. It’s now august, we have had zero large orders come in and customers are only getting the necessary repairs when they are down and losing tens of thousands of dollars a day in lost production.

    Oh also, most of the manufacturer’s in the US use machines with imported parts. ALL OF THOSE PARTS are now 15-50% more expensive for no reason, so they are losing money and have to charge more. Tariffs are ruining the manufacturing industry quickly.

    • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      He would literally spin it like that. The man can’t help but lie about everything or use it as a way to boast about himself.

      If Jesus Christ himself came down, Trump would take credit for it.

  • SorryImLate@piefed.socialEnglish
    172·
    11 hours ago

    I don’t know why anyone is surprised, Trump clearly expects foreign companies to invest in US operations staffed purely by white US citizens. This raid was a feature, not a bug.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      8 hours ago

      Which ironically was almost what things were going to be. The Koreans that were over here were on temp visas to teach Americans how to run the plant.

      • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        19 minutes ago

        I work in this industry, and most of the american employees are not great. Also there are huge language barriers, so training is extremely difficult when these machines have 3,000 parts and are as long as a football field. Finding good employees is tricky and the smaller plants usually ignore OSHA laws and put their employees health at risk.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      9 hours ago

      Wasn’t this whole thing kicked off by a conservative tiktoker that is running for Georgia Congress? She reported seeing Mexicans, they did a raid and were surprised to find out that they were South Korean.

      • SorryImLate@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        No idea, it doesn’t necessarily negate my point though. This wouldn’t have happened if they were white.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
    30·
    14 hours ago

    I like when politicians/diplomats of other countries speak very politely yet hit just as hard as whatever Trump is doing.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 hours ago

        There’s not a good modal verb in English to describe a likely consequence. “Will/would” are definite, ”can/could” are maybes, and “may/might” are (less likely) maybes. “Ought” and “should” signify moral(ish) perspectives and would probably be editorializing. I might use “dürfte” in German, but I’m not sure that would be right.

        They probably shouldn’t have tried to rephrase it with a modal verb at all, or maybe “will likely.”

          • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            7 hours ago

            “May well” absolutely indicates the right level of certainty, but feels a little informal to me. I don’t know if that’s universal, but particles in English almost always strike me as more for the ear than for the eye. Though given that this is from a speech, I’m just overthinking it, lol

  • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
    318·
    9 hours ago

    Ok so ICE bad, but are these expulsions not legitimate? They must be according to some law.
    I’ve travelled for work all my life, and fairly regularly violated work limitations of my visas, such as using tourist visas, or using business visas that didn’t allow manual work when I, in fact, did manual work. I didn’t have much choice at the time, but I was aware I was violating the law. If Hyundai, like other employers, forces their worker to act illegally, they should face the consequences.

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
    217·
    12 hours ago

    At the very least, they should rethink purposefully having their workforce here on tourist visas, expired visas, and all the other shenanigans they were playing. Hyundai doesn’t have the moral or legal high ground here. Hopefully South Korea encourages its companies not to break the laws of other nations.