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There's been many many cases where ICE has been confused about what VISAs allow and don't allow. Eg. Hearing of cases where people from my home country were sent home when asked on entry "why are you coming to the USA?" and they answered for "work". Immediate deportation despite the VISA explicitly allowing that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/australian-w...

This is definitely going to have effects for other companies in the USA. Eg. TSMC in the USA is currently being bootstrapped by a Taiwanese workforce. A similar raid there would just shut down the whole TSMC in USA project. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/50...

> "One of the agents can be heard telling workers they had a search warrant for the entire site and asked that construction “be ceased immediately.”"

It's a $7.6 billion factory that produces exclusively electric vehicles, employs "1,400+" (ultimately 8,500 [b]) and is claimed as the "largest economic project in Georgia history". By way of background—here's the wiki,

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Motor_Group_Metaplant_...

And (lots) more background from IEEE Spectrum (someone had recently posted to HN),

[b] https://spectrum.ieee.org/hyundai-metaplant-georgia ("Hyundai’s Metaplant Seeks Hard-Working Robots")

So, there's supposedly all these millions of 'illegals' working everywhere.

So someone hired them. What business managers and leaders are being charged with hiring illegal workers? Do we even have a single manager/leader/owner charged?

What a way to encourage manufacturing within the United States!

You have to live in the world that you create.

Hyundai has a history of lax law interpretations. See child labor issues in 2022.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...

It wouldn’t surprise me if they were overly aggressive in what they used visas for. It’s also possible they hired a low quality firm to do their visas (some of the big 5s subcontract to some terrible sub tiers) and they simply did the paperwork wrong.

Similar situation have happened to my coworkers when going on foreign assignment.

How resilient is a nation state? This is a question I keep asking myself. I was kind of surprised how the USA bounced back from Trump I. But I really wonder if there is going to be a similar recovery this time around. The amount of outright destruction is overwhelming. So, you raid the Hyundai facility. And then in a few years time you wonder why foreign companies no longer want to invest into factories on US soil. The knock on effect of all of this stuff is enormous and the consequences are going to be many years in the coming. And yet, it all just happens, there is no meaningful pushback against any of this.

Will this administration start costing serious people money enough that the other billionaires will get involved to kick out the nationalist idiots? That'd be nice. It's too bad we need that to be the case but.. would be a nice side effect.

The US will not rank very high on annual the Economist autocratic government rankings. Low competence. Diseases will spread rampant. Wealth disappears in crypto schemes.

I'm made of anti-Abrahamic fermions, but in this instance I can't stop thinking of Emma Lazarus rising from the grave and striking down her own words, to instead inscribe Jeremiah 2:5 on the plaque at the base of the statue:

"What fault did your ancestors find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols..."

If US invested in training and education, we might have the necessary labor to lead manufacturing. Sadly, that’s not the case. However, this country loves to give out jobs to immigrants even in cases where you’re looking at equal talent. Look at all the jobs handed out to the Chinese and Indians (as well as Canadians) over the past three decades. On Wall Street, they blatantly favored Chinese-speaking talent because they wanted to attract businesses in China. Same goes for graduate schools. They all wanted that Chinese money. I am not saying it’s right but this country says one thing and does another. No one told Walmart to destroy retail/manufacturing in the US and ship them out to China. No one. Meanwhile, Walmart heirs are on and on about some “environmental” values while flaunting their art collection on national TV.

Can we fix the title so it doesn't seem like the story is based out of South Korea?

South Korea says 'many' of its nationals detained in raid on GA Hyundai facility

I hope they don't raid the Foxconn megafactory in Wisconsin, it'll really deter foreign investment in US manufacturing.

'Many' in the context of a claim of illegal detention, can and should be given a more precise number, otherwise it's fair to assume a narrative is being sold. ATF Atlanta claims 450 workers are 'unlawful aliens'. A counter claim should be specific or get tossed out. 10s? 100s? Vague damage control is never a good sign.

SK embassy and Hyundai itself have significant liability in admitting or even acknowledging employment of illegals.

Under the pretext of incompetence is the administration simply engaging in destroying the US economy to create a fortress situation in collapse that allows implementation of military jurisdiction? Clearly, there's a program running with an endgame.

The whole idea of building manufacturing in the US is to employ Americans. And if they can't find enough qualified Americans, it's because WAGES ARE TOO LOW.

I imagine that this post will be flagged or downvoted off the homepage by fellow travelers, so I will take this opportunity to promote the active front page as a way to bypass their attempts at censorship.

https://news.ycombinator.com/active