South Korea says immigration raid could impact US investment
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48399123
https://www.dw.com/en/south-korea-says-immigration-raid-could-impact-us-investment/a-73956067Open linkView original on lemmy.zip246
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I like when politicians/diplomats of other countries speak very politely yet hit just as hard as whatever Trump is doing.
At this rate Trump is going to unify Korea.
He really is the peacemaker. 🥹
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No idea, it doesn't necessarily negate my point though. This wouldn't have happened if they were white.
Good
Shame. They miss-spelled "should".
DW changed 'likely' (as per Korean president Lee) to 'Could'
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.”
“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
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.
"Could"? Soft response.
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.
I doubt the veracity of your claims as you've provided no proof and it sounds made up.
Leaked Ice document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa
That's worker, singular. Why would that be a story if the other 299 had legal visas?
Well partially because that means the raid was fucking weird as hell. But I agree the "at least one" wording is a cut bizarre.
Sounds like you're not very educated. Did you read any news articles about this?
Did you?
Which workers didn’t have visas?
The big story yesterday was that one had a valid visa.
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.
The Koreans are doubly upset because they all had work visas and were invited over to set up the factory. They are all highly trained professionals who were going to train Americans. Instead, they were zip tied like criminals. I hope this has major repercussions
https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/sep/10/south-korea-work-visa-immigration-raid-hyundai-ICE/
I wish I trusted government as much as you do.
No, wait, I don't.