Georgia Hyundai Plant ICE Raid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The US business community loves it. stock market is way up!

Great, the morons that voted maga in Georgia that now won’t get jobs at that Hyundai plant will be so excited for us blue state stockholders

Btw, that a dumb interpretation of what’s happening in the markets.

+1 Please go back to high school stats, and write "correlation is not causation" on the blackboard 1,000 times and then you can rejoin the adults.

[Anonymous]

"So the South Korean brought in manual laborers from South Korean? LOL."

You think the workers who set up computerized welders are manual laborers? LOL at your ignorance. They were setting up a manufacturing facility. They had visas so they were vetted. Germany sent workers to set up Mercedes, VW and BMW plants and didn't get the same treatment.

Trump thinks the numbers are great until he gets backlash for all the cancelled investment. Then maybe he will blame and fire Kristi Noem. Yay.

[Anonymous]

WSJ:

“Hyundai and LG Energy each filed a complaint to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry in April and May, asking for help with U.S. visa issues, according to documents obtained by ruling party lawmaker Kim Young-bae. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said it had reached out to the Trump administration 52 times during his second term to discuss visa issues for Korean businesses.

“Asian companies investing in America have faced trouble in receiving enough work visas for personnel needed to get the U.S. plants running, amid a shortage of skilled American technical workers.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love this for MAGA
No more jobs in GA.

Your blue state tax dollars will help pay their unemployment/Medicaid etc. Everyone loses.

Well thankfully Trump cut Medicaid to fund our blue state tax cuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They're going to spin it as the fault of the contractors sneaking people into the US, I suppose. Newsweek article reports Hyundai promising to review its practices and policies regarding contractors, and Karoline will explain that we really helped Hyundai in the end besides protecting vulnerable foreign workers.

But previously I had seen reports that Hyundai was saying US was causing gridlock in the business visa system forcing them to rely on other types of visas with hopes they could clear the gridlock

A good friend of mine is the PM for the software (non-product) system for another company building an EV factory and he constantly has to send people back to their home country because the US government is so screwed up waiting for a legitimate renewal would cause a visa violation.

Maybe he should try hiring US citizens.

They’re too dumb that’s why they need to import workers.

Or are all the parts and instructions and code notes written in Korean? I don't think any US schools teach Korean.

[Anonymous]

Well that's what they get for trying to business w Trump. They shoulda known they'd get screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WSJ:

“Hyundai and LG Energy each filed a complaint to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry in April and May, asking for help with U.S. visa issues, according to documents obtained by ruling party lawmaker Kim Young-bae. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said it had reached out to the Trump administration 52 times during his second term to discuss visa issues for Korean businesses.

“Asian companies investing in America have faced trouble in receiving enough work visas for personnel needed to get the U.S. plants running, amid a shortage of skilled American technical workers.”

Thank you for posting this, PP. It's a perfect illustration of how the Trump administration talks a good game about encouraging domestic and foreign business investment in the US but is more focused on performative BS like splashy ICE raids than actually helping businesses get what they need to do their work. It sounds like Hyundai and LG tried to do the right thing but were given no choice in sending over workers without work permits after reaching out to the Trump admin for help with appropriate visas 52 times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WSJ:

“Hyundai and LG Energy each filed a complaint to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry in April and May, asking for help with U.S. visa issues, according to documents obtained by ruling party lawmaker Kim Young-bae. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said it had reached out to the Trump administration 52 times during his second term to discuss visa issues for Korean businesses.

“Asian companies investing in America have faced trouble in receiving enough work visas for personnel needed to get the U.S. plants running, amid a shortage of skilled American technical workers.”

Thank you for posting this, PP. It's a perfect illustration of how the Trump administration talks a good game about encouraging domestic and foreign business investment in the US but is more focused on performative BS like splashy ICE raids than actually helping businesses get what they need to do their work. It sounds like Hyundai and LG tried to do the right thing but were given no choice in sending over workers without work permits after reaching out to the Trump admin for help with appropriate visas 52 times.

+1

They are operationally incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WSJ:

“Hyundai and LG Energy each filed a complaint to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry in April and May, asking for help with U.S. visa issues, according to documents obtained by ruling party lawmaker Kim Young-bae. Seoul’s Foreign Ministry said it had reached out to the Trump administration 52 times during his second term to discuss visa issues for Korean businesses.

“Asian companies investing in America have faced trouble in receiving enough work visas for personnel needed to get the U.S. plants running, amid a shortage of skilled American technical workers.”

Thank you for posting this, PP. It's a perfect illustration of how the Trump administration talks a good game about encouraging domestic and foreign business investment in the US but is more focused on performative BS like splashy ICE raids than actually helping businesses get what they need to do their work. It sounds like Hyundai and LG tried to do the right thing but were given no choice in sending over workers without work permits after reaching out to the Trump admin for help with appropriate visas 52 times.

Typical Trump, but this time he’s bankrupting the US.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:


Thank you for posting this, PP. It's a perfect illustration of how the Trump administration talks a good game about encouraging domestic and foreign business investment in the US but is more focused on performative BS like splashy ICE raids than actually helping businesses get what they need to do their work. It sounds like Hyundai and LG tried to do the right thing but were given no choice in sending over workers without work permits after reaching out to the Trump admin for help with appropriate visas 52 times.


+1

They are operationally incompetent.

And this is why government needs to strive for a civil service workforce that is not a product of patronage. When I moved to DC 30 years ago, the DC government was known for being operationally incompetent because all government jobs were part of the Barry political machine. Now Trumpworld is replicating this principle of patronage = incompetence on a national scale.

[Anonymous]

This is the first statement that Governor Kemp has made on this raid which occurred almost a week ago and affects thousands of people and billions of dollars in his state.

They put it out this afternoon hoping it would get lost amid a much larger news story.

[Anonymous]

I think Hyundai is going to cancel the project and take the write down. Sorry, rural Georgians. Make better decisions next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This plant was hiring Americans to get the tax breaks, then firing them after 180 days to bring in Koreans. I have no issues with them getting in trouble for breaking the rules.

Cite?

I worked there and saw it with my own eyes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This plant was hiring Americans to get the tax breaks, then firing them after 180 days to bring in Koreans. I have no issues with them getting in trouble for breaking the rules.

The plant isn't even operational yet.

You realize it takes @2 years to get it operational right? People work there …. Getting it to that point……

Those people are called workers too…

[Anonymous]

This is the most entertaining red state self own.