Most didn’t actually, they were here on essentially visit visas working for the setup stint and getting paid back home in SK. Hyundai says they did it to skirt around the US’s poor short term labor policies, some say Hyundai did it for cheaper SK labor in spinning up the factory, and ICE says they did it because boogey man evil foreign entity garbage.
Regardless, I wouldn’t stick around for a second shot no matter how many guarantees Trump is offering, since he flip flops on a minute basis, and was likely completely aware of the planned ICE operation. Hyundai might just try to recruit new workers from SK if Trump allows, but I’m sure not many if any are going to take that offer after this fiasco.
They claim there just isn’t any qualified workers so they had to use their own nationals. The USA doesn’t seem to actually have any good short term work visas they could really apply for so it’s a mixture of everything bad…
I think it’s more the shock of having their countrymen in chains that forced the Koreans to go home. It was front page news in SK.
Most didn’t actually, they were here on essentially visit visas working for the setup stint and getting paid back home in SK. Hyundai says they did it to skirt around the US’s poor short term labor policies, some say Hyundai did it for cheaper SK labor in spinning up the factory, and ICE says they did it because boogey man evil foreign entity garbage.
Regardless, I wouldn’t stick around for a second shot no matter how many guarantees Trump is offering, since he flip flops on a minute basis, and was likely completely aware of the planned ICE operation. Hyundai might just try to recruit new workers from SK if Trump allows, but I’m sure not many if any are going to take that offer after this fiasco.
They claim there just isn’t any qualified workers so they had to use their own nationals. The USA doesn’t seem to actually have any good short term work visas they could really apply for so it’s a mixture of everything bad…
I think it’s more the shock of having their countrymen in chains that forced the Koreans to go home. It was front page news in SK.