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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
They basically sent a military style convoy to arrest factory workers. But only **1** of 457 people was on a B-1 visa, and was there for training. Of the arrests, South Korea has identified 300 of them as South Korean citizens which they say *all* had valid work visas. Now Hyundai and South Korea will be rethinking their $20B investment in new US manufacturing plants. (Oh and PS - the B1 visa the guy was on, prevents “productive labor” - attending training, conferences, business meetings or consultations are all ALLOWED on a B1)
Two text excerpts from a news report. The first excerpt mentions individuals from Seoul entering the U.S. on a B1 temporary visitor visa for business purposes like negotiating contracts. The second excerpt describes a Korean employee arrested, who came on a B1 commercial visa for local personnel training.
Two text excerpts from a news report. The first excerpt mentions individuals from Seoul entering the U.S. on a B1 temporary visitor visa for business purposes like negotiating contracts. The second excerpt describes a Korean employee arrested, who came on a B1 commercial visa for local personnel training.
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Raphael Rashid
@koryodynasty
ICE has released a video of its raid on Hyundai–LG's Georgia battery plant site, showing Korean workers chained up and led away. South Korea's foreign ministry has confirmed over 300 of the 457 taken into custody are Korean nationals. x.com/koryodynasty/s…
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Even the B1 guy was following the literal rules of his visa. But if he hadn’t been, just revoke their visas and send them home, and work with SK to figure out the visa issue. Don’t do a dumb military raid against middle aged polo wearing factory workers to humiliate allies. If
Text listing B-1 Temporary Business Visitor visa eligibility criteria. Bullet points include consulting with business associates and negotiating a contract, with two points highlighted in yellow: consulting with business associates and participating in short-term training.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
1/4 According to Yonhap News, all 300 Koreans will be returned to of South Korea regardless of status, and the government is questioning US investment. “The negotiations for the release of the 300 citizens has been completed” x.com/adamscochran/s…
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Colin
@ColinN69630
I predict that this is going to be a diplomatic debacle. The administration has publicly and ruthlessly humiliated South Korea.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Who gives a fuck? Even if the other 157 arrests were legit - it would not impact the fact that 300 people on legal work visas, were put in literal chains, while following the rules. That’s a disgrace to American values regardless of what else is happening!
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
If your defence of an incredibly stupid, politicized and damaging action is pedantic paperwork technicalities, then in going to go ahead and say you’re on the wrong side. Because while you should carry your visa, no one does. And it does not change your legal status, nor the
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Lynn
@Lynnrx52
If any were here legally and legally working they will be released. I’ll Wait for facts from DHS rather than listen to any politically motivated hits thank you.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
That’s not how “innocent until proven guilty” works. You don’t call camera crews, drag people out in chains for following the rules and then say “oh well, they’ll be released at somepoint”
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
These workers were literary setting up the plant and training the Americans because this plant is a replica of the one these people work at *in Korea* So now, it’s unclear how Hyundai is going to give any Americans jobs, because all their training and install teams have been
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Pendragon 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (Pendragon)
@PendragonMR
Wrong: Per ICE, “The individuals arrested during the operation were found to be working illegally, in violation of the terms of their visas and/or statuses.” This was a worksite enforcement operation, and the 400+ arrested were violating their visas.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
1) DHS and ICE have repeatedly lied in press releases 2) These workers were part of a joint government investment program from Hyundai and the South Korean government in the US. The SK government has all their US visas on record, and said all 300 SK citizens identified had
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Brennan 27
@B5209866463
Where are the Americans that were to be trained? Under Pedo Joe they received 5 billion to train Americans and now we hear there were over 400 Koreans on visas! Great raid, sometimes a raid uncovers more than illegals!
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Hey dumbass, The Koreans were here configuring the factory and training the Americans, since this was a duplication of Hyundai’s Korean plant. Now there is no one to train the American’s and Hyundai is considering not furthering investment.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
They won’t. Because why would you take the risk? Hyundai sent these workers to install and set up this factory expansion and train US workers to meet aggressive deadlines with their new investment. Now we’ve disrupted that, which will greatly hurt their business as well. Even
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Blue Shirt Project
@blueshirtday1
I traveled internationally extensively for work and was always treated with respect in every country, including China. I spent a lot of time in South Korea and they were gracious hosts. I find this personally outrageous.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Yeah. Especially because they called camera crews in advanced and dragged these guys out in chain lines. Having been to Asia for work, I’m sure you realize how massive a deal humiliation is there, compared to here. This is such a colossal international relations fuck up!
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Michael Hannon
@Michael54866170
There was lots of accounts celebrating this. I would encourage ye to go and rub this in there faces and don't let them wriggle out of it. They wanted to gloat at people being chained up.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
It’s insane that these guys were put in chains just for looking Korean. Because no one carries their visa with them during the work day, and so these guys likely said they were here legally and were dragged out by the Cheeto Gestapo anyway!
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Debra McGuire
@DebraMc85536001
They didn't. Furthermore, the battery plant was built with federal blessing on the understanding that it would provide jobs for American workers. Americans. Not South Koreans.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Hey dummy, Hyundai sent these South Korean workers to set up and configure the factory and train the American staff on the equipment so that the Americans could actually have the jobs when the plant opens. Which is exactly what these visa programs allow for.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Where’s the governments fuckwit? In America, you’re innocent until proven guilty. Do you think they have 300 court signed warrants backed by evidentiary status for each of those individuals? Or did they march a bunch of Koreans out in chains knowing racists fucks like you
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Hey You
@rjh9aer
You can blame the treasonous SCUM open border Biden administration for all your gay ass complaints.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Yeah so these were workers who came here during the Trump administration, as part of the Hyundai/South Korean joint investment project in the US that Trump bargained for as part of tariff settlement. So literally nothing to do with Biden. Just Trump screwing over his own win.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
@adamscochran
Hurt the American economy* This is not only a $20B factory investment likely gone, but that would have been billions in long term production gains. And this likely gives other companies pause for investing in the US. It’s not an exaggeration to guess $100B+ in economic damage
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Sam Grady
@SamGradyWrites
This is absolutely awful, but if it will hurt the U.S. economy, particularly in the South, then I think it's worth it.
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Normal Guy
@Normal_2610
Sending ARMORED trucks and chaining Korean engineers with valid visas is madness. One worker on a B1 doesn’t justify humiliating 300+ lawful employees. Seoul will treat this as an insult. $20B investment review is now guaranteed. Allies don’t stomach this kind of hostility.
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Luis Beldroega
@luisbeldroega
Wouldn’t this be …!? The Samsung factory, that most recently signed a contract with Tesla to manufacture their next Gen chip 🤔 It it is that factory … there is more to it than it meets the eye
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Asher Genesius🍶🦊
@AsherGenesius
How did we get from at over 30 of them have valid visas to ALL of them have visas?
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Raphael Rashid
@koryodynasty
US authorities have reportedly detained 450 workers at Hyundai-LG battery plant construction site in Georgia yesterday, including over 30 South Koreans said to have legitimate visas. Seoul has expressed concern and says Korean nationals' rights "must not be unjustly violated." x.com/ATFAtlanta/sta…
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DarkWolfsDen
@DarkWolfsDen
Trump claims a lot of these countries/foreign companies are going to be bringing in factories however this is the new way they do things. They build factories in foreign countries, but then bring in workers from their own country to work in those factories rather than hire
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Bid Me!
@unusualOA
Seems like a massive operation for what turned out to be a big misunderstanding... wonder if anyone will be held accountable?
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Shane Burns
@ShaneEBurns
Why did they run? What is the point of these massive cap ex investments if they’re going to mean nothing but more immigrants?
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STC
@STCNewsfeed
So who brought them to the US? Did they get hired here or were they actually sent over by the company?
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Recorder
@kpkiwoong
Not just Hyundai and 20 billion. The entire world saw it. Thats the chilling sucking sound of money leaving the west
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CowLivesMatter
@ProtesterLone
What do you base your assessment that South Korea is going to "reassess" its investment in the US economy on? Did they suddenly get a superpower to use on Trump, cause I see nothing?
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Mr. Yellow 🅰️⚛️
@Gamboleer
So, about those absolutely definitely positively ID'd Venezuelan drug smugglers we blew into hamburger...
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Motown Boy 🐊🐊
@motown5203
All of them had overstayed. Many were on tourist visas and were way outside. Quit defending criminals as progressives always do.
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PJ
@cincy_pj
Another country that relies on the US for support from its aggressor, North Korea, whom Trump has a loving relationship with (his words, not mine). America is upside down and we don’t know how this will all shake out. Those people thinking things will be alright (because they
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Taylor
@TaylorIndiana
@DHSgov
is an embarrassment to America. Ignorant inbred rent-a-cops working not for Americans but to collect quota bonus money. Along the way they don’t care how many Americans citizens they assault.
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Dcguinn
@dcguinn
Your premise makes no sense; no motivation to jack up valid visa holders. Significant downsides with South Korea.
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Gorilla Astronaut
@ApeAstro_USA
You're a liar, they are not rethinking their investment, no one detained even worked for Hyundai, those detained were illegal, get a grip on reality.
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Marc Alan Channel
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Hyundai Motor Group agreed to investment in U.S. manufacturing, pledging a total of $26 billion between 2025 and 2028 boost vehicle production capacity, construct a steel plant in Louisiana, build a new robotics facility, and strengthen its supply chains. This investment is to
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idecay
@kissmyassburger
So just as you shouldn’t blindly listen to the government about what they’re doing, you shouldn’t do the same for the billion dollar corporation.
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Mvl80
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ColonelTowner-Watkins
@ColonelTowner
READ THIS, REPOST IT PLEASE every time you see someone trying to justify what Hyundai did. I just spent the last few days outside the Hyundai plant in Savannah. Between local, state, and federal incentives Hyundai rec’d $10B. They, in turn, promised good paying jobs for
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whistler雪山（自由党再执政12年版）
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chosun.com/english/world- To be honest, Koreans are more trustworthy than you Even the Chosun Ilbo didn't cover for them
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ICE raid detains 300 South Koreans at Hyundai-LG Georgia plant
ICE raid detains 300 South Koreans at Hyundai-LG Georgia plant Visa shortages and diplomatic gaps complicate South Korean investments amid U.S. immigration scrutiny
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Adam
@adamdangeross
They never said all had proper work visas. Only one detainee had a permissible visa for training. Only a smooth brain would assume the rest were legally working there, especially with 275 non-Koreans in the mix. Here's how this will play out: ICE was right on 474 out of 475.
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Lynn
@Lynnrx52
They have to send a lot of officers in because of the left wingers who are attacking them and doing everything possible to obstruct. Haven’t you seen the assaults on the ICE officers? Haven’t you seen officers getting hit in the head with giant rocks?
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𝕳𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝕳𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙 🏴
@holly__heart
I’m not in favor of bringing foreign labor here but it’s completely wrong the way this administration has treated these people and all of the other people who have not received due process and have suffered in inhumane conditions. All Trump is doing is pissing off our allies.
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Ambitious_Boxcar
@boxcar_5150
They were on tourist visas because the work visas didnt arrive on time, and they were trying to meet that deadline. They were not allowed to work.
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Andy
@Ace9Stripe
Doesn’t matter what visa they had, if they violated the rules of the visas they held, that makes what they’re were doing ILLEGAL, and subject to deportation. I know that’s a hard concept for a liberal to understand but try to keep up
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Marvel 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
@marcvelitrae
If they all had valid work visas why weren't they produced at the time of the raid? Even if they didn't have them on their person, the company would have had some kind of record.
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Stewart Patton
@StewartP6994
What is your evidence for the claim that Hyundai and South Korea will be rethinking their $20B investment in new US manufacturing plants?
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Cheryl Bowers🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@CherylB2121
Let me try..All 457 were here illegally and didn’t have the proper visas to be here and therefore were taking jobs away from Americans.
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John Galt
@JimFurlong_cdn
If they had visas, they wouldn’t have been arrested and South Korea wouldn’t have agreed to take them back. Right away. The stupid is strong with you.
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imhere
@toasttothepost
What’s the point of accepting investments when those investments are used to hire people from other country’s.
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Chap Nilem
@chapnilem
They should be hiring US workers. Who gives a rats ass if they are making it in georgia if the workers are illegal and legal korean workers?
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SDHPU
@sdhpu
Shouldn’t Americans in Georgia be doing those jobs at fair American wages??
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one (doge)coin to rule them all.
@dane_hidden
So now it's, "they took our jobs" yes, but "they took our jobs 'legally'." Now? Whatever, dude, unemployment is supposedly up, and these are good paying jobs in America that went to aliens, legally or not, it's wrong.
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