Trump warns firms on immigration law as detained South Koreans to go free
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South Korean government says it has reached an agreement for release of about 300 citizens detained in immigration raid.

US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia, where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.

The Pew Research Center, citing preliminary Census Bureau data, said the US labour force lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January through July.

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    It seems plausible to me. Large corporations doing weird stuff are nothing new. I don’t know how much they’d save by doing this, and it’s obviously not worth it, especially these days, but I can certainly see them entertaining the idea, or implementing it. Unlikely as it is.

    • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Oh, I can certainly believe that Hyundai would do this. My thought process actually went something along the lines of:

      1. Oh that’s pretty fascinating
      2. Wait, I feel like this is exactly the type of propaganda that would get spread on social media, I think this person should dig into the source of their story and make sure it wasn’t some kind of lying that they had believed
      3. Oh they said it was firsthand knowledge never mind
      4. Wait WTF I’m on social media right now
      5. Also their explanation for “Hyandai” makes literally 0 sense
      6. Ooooohhhh… yeah.

      I think if the explanation for “Hyandai” had been “oh my bad lol” then I wouldn’t have really felt any particular strong skepticism, but that aspect pushed it over the edge to me.