cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35547943
South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered “all-out efforts” to respond to the arrests of hundreds of its citizens in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia, as the key American ally and trading partner reeled from the news.
Federal and immigration agents arrested 475 people — mostly South Korean nationals — while executing a judicial search warrant as part of a criminal investigation into alleged unlawful employment at the facility.
At an emergency government meeting Saturday, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”
The foreign ministry told NBC News that the government had set up a response team and that Cho was prepared to travel to Washington to meet officials if needed, while Cho reiterated earlier remarks made by Lee that the rights of South Koreans “must be not unjustly infringed.”
Pull investment from that country while you can. That’s the best long term investment strategy at the moment.
This is going to be a long term disaster for the US economy, what company is going to invest in the US when employees legally in the country can be detained like this?
According to another thread, it’s turning out most of them were using tourist visas or 3 months visit visas. Not technically work visas. Still, this could have been sorted out with a notice letter and maybe a fine (to Hyundai, that is).
Yeah, I totally agree with fining Hyundai. I’ve never been transferred overseas but I was under the impression that the company is supposed to take care of the visas for you. It looks to me like the company was cutting corners.
Ah, so they were doing dodgy shit.
Arresting everyone is completely over the top, but it sounds like there were genuine issues to be resolved.
