Georgia Hyundai Plant ICE Raid

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The detained workers were connected to one of the largest Korean investments in the U.S.—a Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution battery joint venture—which U.S. officials and state leaders have promoted as a major job-creation project. The arrests paused construction and raised questions about how multinational investments will be staffed amid tighter visa rules and heightened immigration enforcement.

https://www.newsweek.com/south-korea-ice-hyundai-georgia-plant-update-2125882

Looks like foreign investments will stop for the foreseeable future in the US. When they arrest your technical advisors and engineers needed to get the $7.6 billion plant up in running it drives off investors. What a stupid move.

Looks like foreign investments should play by the visa rules.

They did. This is why the South Koreans are so upset. All these Koreans filled out work visas and entered the country through legal means. They flew here on airplanes and showed their passport with visas.

Then why were they raided?

Because an idiot MAGA congressional candidate reported the whole operation to ICE.

MTG?

No I think MTG is focusing on Epstein and Gaza.

Tori Branum is the MAGAnut
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-08/national/socialAffairs/US-politician-who-reported-the-LGHyundai-plant-to-ICE-faces-online-backlash/2393750

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were not here legally to work

Neither wereMelania or Musk but that doesn't seem to bother anyone

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trumps SS has created an international crisis.

By kidnapping and abusing 450 skilled South Korean workers, who were INVITED her to help build a battery plant by the way, Trump has sent the world a message:

Do not invest in the United States. Do not send your best and brightest.

Neither your people nor your investment are safe here.

-attorneyryan, Threads

Only when global corporations pay taxes and wealthy shareholders pay taxes on their wealth accumulation can they expect protection. American workers pay for the federal government; they should expect protection:

💰 1. Federal Revenue Composition (2023)
Source Amount (FY 2023) Share of Total Federal Revenue
Individual income taxes ≈ $2.2 trillion 49%
Payroll taxes (Social Security + Medicare, paid by workers & employers) ≈ $1.6 trillion 35%
Corporate income taxes ≈ $0.42 trillion 9%
Excise, estate, tariffs, other ≈ $0.3 trillion 7%

if the global corporation in question was given a tax waiver to locate the plant in the US and in that state, then no. And equating the corporations that are aactually making the investments with those that don't and also with the wealthy billionaires is a false equivelent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They were not here legally to work

based on your feels?

[Anonymous]

Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The state of Georgia and local areas are giving Hyundai 2 billion dollars in tax breaks because they thought Americans would be hired. There is no reason for almost 500 Korean workers to take jobs away from Americans.

Democrats should be supporting this? What party is now for the worker? Please tell me so I can join that party? Democrats and Republicans only care about the rich.

Why are MAGA such idiots who can’t pick up a reliable paper? They were here to build the factory and TRAIN Americans. Now work has stopped.

[Anonymous]

Is any reputable source indicating the type of visas used? Were they on work visas or did the subcontractor used by Hyundai screw up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

Also from the article...

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids. “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

S. Korea is a stalwart ally. An ICE raid was not the right way to handle this matter.

[Anonymous]

I, for one, am glad these dangerous Korean engineers are now off the streets and are being deported to some third world hellhole as punishment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

Also from the article...

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids. “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

S. Korea is a stalwart ally. An ICE raid was not the right way to handle this matter.

This! Whatever the problem, an ICE raid was not the solution. If -- *if* -- Hyundai was not hiring American to the extent promised, then deal with that at the corporate level. Detaining a bunch of workers was cruel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

Also from the article...

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids. “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

S. Korea is a stalwart ally. An ICE raid was not the right way to handle this matter.

At least the damage is happening in a red state.

[jsteele]

For the edification of the poster who keeps posting false information (and whose posts I have been removing), a B-1 visa is called a "Temporary Business Visitor," not a "tourist visa".

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-visitors-for-business/b-1-temporary-business-visitor

B-1 Temporary Business Visitor

You may be eligible for a B-1 visa if you will be participating in business activities of a commercial or professional nature in the United States, including, but not limited to:

• Consulting with business associates
• Traveling for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or a conference on specific dates
• Settling an estate
• Negotiating a contract
• Participating in short-term training
• Transiting through the United States: certain persons may transit the United States with a B-1 visa
• Deadheading: certain air crewmen may enter the United States as deadhead crew with a B-1 visa

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

Also from the article...

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids. “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

S. Korea is a stalwart ally. An ICE raid was not the right way to handle this matter.

This! Whatever the problem, an ICE raid was not the solution. If -- *if* -- Hyundai was not hiring American to the extent promised, then deal with that at the corporate level. Detaining a bunch of workers was cruel.

the hamhandedness and cruelty are the point. It is what Stephen Miller wants.

[Anonymous]

Their visas expired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oops! Kristi Noem was wrong.

Work across at least 22 Korean projects in the US halted after raid.

“The $4.3 billion joint venture battery facility, among the largest projects in Georgia and is expected to create 8,500 jobs, was scheduled for completion later this year to supply battery cells to Hyundai’s nearby EV factory, Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America LLC (HMGMA).
Construction work on the site was suspended following the raid.

The incident has thrown Korea’s flagship investment projects in the US into disarray.
Sources said at least 22 other factory sites involving Korean business groups, in autos, shipbuilding, steel and electrical equipment, have been nearly halted.”
https://www.kedglobal.com...2509080002

Also from the article...

Korean companies with US interests have frozen travel plans and recalled staff already in the US over fears of further raids. “Korean workers are being treated like criminals for building factories that Washington itself lobbied for,” said a company executive in Seoul. “If this continues, investment in the US could be reconsidered.”

S. Korea is a stalwart ally. An ICE raid was not the right way to handle this matter.

This! Whatever the problem, an ICE raid was not the solution. If -- *if* -- Hyundai was not hiring American to the extent promised, then deal with that at the corporate level. Detaining a bunch of workers was cruel.

Why is ICE letting these Koreans go? Why not put them in camps and force them to build the plants at gun point? Once the plant is built Trump can declare EV batteries illegal and shut down the plant!

This would boost Trump’s flagging support with Republicans and it would encourage more manufacturing investments in the US. Remember the US economy is 10% manufacturing and there are not enough workers.