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.

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    23 hours 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.