Very different take by Fox News on this story.
Reminds me that back in July, Trump was happy with a trade deal that had SK investing $350 billion in the US.
Pretty attractive job, compensation wise.
60k in student loan forgiveness?
I thought student loan forgiveness was socialism and buying votes and giving free shit to freeloaders?
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I know some people won’t touch twitter, but an interesting thread on the issues Hyundai and other Korean companies are facing in the U.S.
If you’re not a citizen of the United States, there is zero reason you should come to the U.S.
If you’re a citizen of the United States, you should have a firearm within reach at all times lest anyone purporting to represent ICE tries to abduct you for not being sufficiently American enough.
Yes but I am severely tempted if my Blue Jays have a playoff game down the road in Seattle….
I can’t open the comments because I don’t have a twitter account.
Interestingly, it was a 6-3 decision in which the 3 dissenters all signed a dissenting opinion, and there was no majority opinion. Kavanaugh issued a concurring opinion that the other 5 didn’t sign onto. So we have a ruling in which 5 justices won’t say what their reasoning was, 1 person explained his logic but the silent 5 implicitly don’t agree, and 3 are on record about why they disagree.
Part of Kavanaugh’s ruling is that the plaintiffs don’t have standing, because while they have been detained in the past, who knows whether or not they specifically will be detained in the future.
Moreover, Kavanaugh added, although “apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion” for an immigration stop, reasonable suspicion can rest on the “totality of the circumstances.” Here, he stressed, circumstances such as the “extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area,” the fact that undocumented immigrants often “gather in certain locations to seek daily work” and “often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction,” and “that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English” can, when “taken together,” “constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States.”
Remember, we aren’t stopping these people because of their skin color, we are stopping them because of their skin color and where they live and work. And it’s ok because usually the questioning is short and mistaken arrests never happen (sorry, too lazy to find exact quote).
The take on the ICE raid on Hyundai from a local source:
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President Donald Trump has defended the raid and warned foreign companies to respect the country’s immigration laws, but he acknowledged that finding qualified workers can be a problem, suggesting that “maybe we should help them along and let some people come in and train our people to do, you know, complex things, whether it’s battery manufacturing or computer manufacturing or building ships.”
I am finding it hard to disagree with Trump on this one. Why tf did Hyundai have so many (or >0) workers here on travel visas?
Hyundai probably got some tax breaks for building the plant here to create jobs locally. I know our immigration policy is dumb and the answer should have been real temp worker visas, but just breaking the rule when that isn’t the case?
Its in the article. They couldnt get work visas, but their expertise was required.
These people were guilty of a white collar crime and maybe shouldve been treated that way instead of like hardened criminals.
And like always, the people that knowingly hired them, no consequences.
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Yep. Lots of US “digital nomads” that travel and work abroad are often violating similar immigration laws. Imagine if other countries started jailing these Americans.
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If any of them are in S Korea right now they might want to hop across to Japan.
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15% of the workers at a factory require expertise that can’t be trained? It was 475 of 3000, right?
That’s closer to 16%.
Lemme pen a letter to MY PRIME MINISTER Carney on this right now.
It’d be kinda humorous I guess if they actually sent in the RCMP to start arresting Americans working in Canada, but in practice Carney’s leading with a strong stable hand devoid of emotion. Thank gawd because if it was up to most individual Canadians we’d be burning down the bridges everywhere. See Premier Ford for example.
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Its mostly stems from the fact that to build a factory from scratch, and then getting it up and running takes a certain amount of time based on their business plans.
But the US was slow-walking their visa requests (they raised this many times with the prior adminstrations) so the process of building the factory, as well as training the local population was taking way longer (and this is very expensive)
So they ended up taking this shortcut. Using B1/B2 visas to bring people in to get things done on time.
Don’t know if you have ever worked with people from SK before but they are fastidious about projects running on time, as well as being no strangers to doing overtime to get stuff done.
Pretty much everybody looked the other way for years because ultimately this benefitted the local economy. Those temp workers eventually left and the locals had jobs at the factory