No idea what the fall out of this will be but certainly production at the current site and construction on an adjacent site will be halted for quite some time until over 400 employees can be replaced. The impact on the community and the state will likely be substantial - and who knows what this will do to the politics.
Detainment does not equal guilt. Immigration is under huge pressure to make numbers and headlines. There is a good possibility that most of those detained are either citizens or here legally.
If not there should be some people trading their Armani suits for orange cover alls.
Cheers
Qazulight
How quaint! You seem to think all of them are going to be given a hearing sometime soon and allowed to prove their innocence. I love your optimism!
In related news:
The immigration enforcement action was focused on the construction site for the adjacent EV battery plant. Operations for the EV plant have not been affected.
Construction will certainly slow down.
Immigration law enforcement, especially regarding hiring illegals, is a huge corruption racket involving Congress with its assinine pretend laws, enforcement that depends on national political publicity whims (now in a particularly nasty demonstrative tsumani mode) and pure wealth to buy the politicos.
And maybe they will be replaced with legal green card holders.
It will be difficult for South Koreans to claim asylum. If they have no papers and are illegal they should be promptly deported.
Lets hope Congress gets its act together and authorizes more H1-vs to replace them. (Dream on, Kiddo. Very unlikely.)
How do 500 Koreans get into the country? On my map there’s a wider body of water than “a river” between there and here.
By airplane. People have been know to overstay their visa.
DB2
Today, the costs of green card cases have more than tripled, running up to $15,000, according to the Seattle-based Boundless Immigration group, which assists immigrants and their families with the legal system. Defense against deportation fees jumped 20% to as much as $12,000 or more.
These costs hit hardest for immigrants in labor and service jobs, unlike tech or professional workers, whose companies can cover some or all immigration paperwork.
For all we know, the State Department revoked their work visas and then went in to scoop them up.
Gotta meet those numbers! 3000 per day is a lot…unless you get creative.
It will be foreign companies really wondering if they wan to open businesses and factories here after all. That is the fall out. And it isn’t good.
Ok, but the idea that a foreign company can bring in illegals from their own country to build their factory does not sit well. Yes, they want to hire their own. Speak the language. Know the culture. Can meet quality standards.
But still must do this legally.
How do you think they did it, parachute them in during the dark of night?
Anyone entering the country has to have a passport and visa, so I suspect these were just workers who overstayed, which is the vast, vast majority of people here “illegally.”
Meanwhile we cry about our shrinking population and moan about “lazy illegals.” Talk about disingenuous.
Yes, so Congress should expand temp quotas to meet the requirement.
But will they get around to it? Doubtful!!
Conflicting priorities can be a b1tch - what is it going to be - anti-immigration, or bringing manufacturing into the US:
“I am hereby calling on all Foreign Companies investing in the United States to please respect our Nation’s Immigration Laws. Your Investments are welcome, and we encourage you to LEGALLY bring your very smart people, with great technical talent, to build World Class products, and we will make it quickly and legally possible for you to do so,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday evening. “What we ask in return is that you hire and train American Workers. Together, we will all work hard to make our Nation not only productive, but closer in unity than ever before.”
But experts say that the raid could already be costing the U.S. foreign investment.
True dat.
People who shout “Do it the legal way!” often have a very limited understanding of what that means, or the history of US immigration laws. At some point we’ll need to face an uncomfortable question - Do current immigration laws make sense? They clearly don’t.
The loudest voices are coming from the descendants of immigrants who came to the US under very loose immigration laws. Their sense of entitlement is sickening. Their desire to limit immigration is based largely on xenophobia and racism.
The unemployment rate around Savannah, GA is just over 3%. The area is booming, construction labor is tight. Currently, it’s impossible to staff these big construction projects without relying on undocumented labor.
Xenophobia is not good for business, our economy, nor our society.
I think it is clear. Foreign workers are welcome in the US but they must be legal. There is no conflict on that. The hard part is how many to allow. Plus rounding up all the illegals.
Yes, declining birth rates mean we need immigrants to fill the slots. But legals please.
Yes, but no. The make no sense at all if the concern is good policy for the future of the USA. The policies make close to perfect sense if their purpose is hiring people who are utterly subservient because of constant risk (act up and the agro-business owner can call the local sheriff on you and then you are bye bye!), and that can be paid well below US minimum wage.
It is an evil policy with two faces — the one sketched above facing the work force, and the absurdly false image shown to the gullible USA public of floods of illegals pouring in.
The system is carefully designed to NOT allow enforcement of any coherent national immigration policy at all, and to deflect the blame for the situation onto the potential workers.
The real goal is to make ALL labor exploitable. If you can exploit a group then the wage floor drops to that exploitation level. So, yes ALL workers in the USA must be legal so all laborers can receive a fair wage.
Do I agree or disagree with past or current policies? It doesn’t matter. I am just acknowledging the facts.
Cheers
Qazulight
Thanks Qaz, a horrifically potent corallary to my thesis that I have overlooked.
“Likes” have replaced weak kneed superstitious mumbling religiosity as the social coin of the realm, but power to exploit and cheat in the service of Mammon remains steady.
[ Mammon | Definition, New Testament, Etymology, & Meaning | Britannica ]
Mammon in the USAian manner is endlessly and exponentially strengthening with alarming continuity. This is the necessary nature of unconfronted Mammon, no?
Perhaps it might be useful for me to remind the board that my ancestors’ main gift to me has been a profound, emotional indoctrination into the bizarre, ferocious, “liberal” Puritanical Christianity they practiced, a la Ralph Waldo Emerson. He laid all this out, Mammon and the desire for fame as our typical sins, in the crux years of the USAian Republic.