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https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/trump-says-he-was-very-much-opposed-to-ice-raid-at-hyundai-plant/President Donald Trump said Monday he was “very much opposed” to the immigration raid at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia last month after an operation that saw hundreds of South Korean workers detained and sent home.
Nearly 500 employees were arrested during the Sept. 4 raid at Hyundai Motor Group’s facility in Ellabell, Georgia. Workers were sat on the factory floor as officers shackled their legs in scenes that caused outrage in South Korea, where the government scrambled to secure the workers’ release. They were eventually flown home on a chartered flight after urgent negotiations.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Japan, the first stop on his Asia trip, Trump said he didn’t agree with how the situation at the plant was handled.
“You know how I feel, I was very much opposed,” the president said.
He continued:
"Look, when they come in and they’re making very complex machinery, equipment, they’re going to have to bring some people in, at least at the initial phase. In that case, it was batteries. Batteries are very complex and they’re actually very dangerous to make. You can’t just pick people off an unemployment line and say, 'We just, you know, opened up a $2 billion battery factory.' So, we’ve got an understanding, and this is with the world, by the way. This is not just – this is when they come into our country, we have a lot of factories being built by outside by foreign interests."
Trump argued that foreign investors should be allowed to “bring in experts” to help establish U.S. operations:
"When they come in, some of these factories make very, very complex, very highly sophisticated equipment. They’ve got to bring people in with them for a period of time. They’ll teach our people how to do it, but even for a fairly long period of time, they’re going to need expertise to be successful. And we’re going to let people know. I’m letting them know right now that when they come into our country, we can expect to see them bring in with them some very talented people that have been doing it for many years. They’ll teach our people how to do it. Our people will be just as good as they are within a period of time and it’ll be a phase out, but we want them to bring in experts and that’s the way it is."
After a reporter followed up that his administration was doing a “whole new” visa plan, Trump said:
"I was opposed to getting them out and in fact before they got out they were pretty well set but before they got out I said they could say they went they left and they’re going to be coming back."
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung warned after the raid that confusion over visa rules may chill investment.
“Whether they should go at all,” Lee said, was now a question some firms were asking.
https://youtu.be/AQqmdxsDqDk
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So the 475 Korean workers who were captured and deported were all "experts," eh?
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