Nearly 500 workers were taken in a raid at Hyundai’s battery plant. In a quiet Georgia town, the silence is deafening
Submitted 11 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to economics@lemmy.world
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/us/georgia-hyundai-ice-raid-community
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 11 hours ago
How is this economics? Just because some guy is not getting paid by immigrants who may not be in the country illegally?
pdxfed@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This raid happened days after a Korean presidential visit to the US with Trump to discuss trade negotiations, of which the US is looking for concessions, giveaways and fealty from Korea, as with other nations. Korea didn’t show up like a doormat and this was the calculated, premeditated response. The entire story is about international trade, manufacturing and economics, overlaid by broken US immigration practices.
That is how this is economics.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 8 hours ago
The article didn’t point out anything about trade negotiations or fealty. It is an immigration issue.
"Agents with Homeland Security Investigations said the majority were Korean nationals, though others were from different countries. Some, officials said, had crossed into the US unlawfully; others had overstayed visas; still others were on visa waivers allowing entry for tourism or business but do not permit employment. "
Follow the rules, that is society works. It seems to be an article geared to left wing people who don’t believe in laws if it doesn’t fit their world view. You are in America.
njm1314@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They were in the country legally. They were there on temporary work visas to help set up the plant.