Originally posted by: Boilerman

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I'm in Cleveland for the Elastomer convention.  Many of us old timers still call it the Rubber Show.  I was in a meeting today with a South Korean supplier, LG Chemical, and a customer.  The Georgia battery plant is a joint venture between LG Solutions and Hyundai.  The booted employees had tourist visas, which mandates no job, no manufacturing plant tours, no consulting amongst other things.  My South Korean contact (who now lives in Atlanta) said that it's being worked out for replacement employees coming back to the plant with correct visas soon.

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Originally posted by: PJ Stroh

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"Drug Dealers !   Gangs !  Human Traffickers !    Fentanyl !"

That was the battle cry of MAGA to paint all these people with broad brush.   Now we see their true colors.       

 

All of the Hynudai plant  workers paid into MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY but are not eligible for those benefits.    So those foreigners are propping up our underfunded safety net programs.   It takes a special kind of stupid to want to get rid of them.   

 

Special kind of stupid is what we have running the government and the people who voted for them.

 

 

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Originally posted by: David Miller

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  Each time PJ posts everyone gets to see, once again, a "special kind of stupid".

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Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

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There's about a 3 percent chance that the so-called "information" that your imaginary friend is true, but if it is, that means that your (and stupid Tom's) bleat that they WUZ ALL ILLEGULS is completely bullshit. Good job for weaseling away from the bet I offered.

 

So ICE had absolutely no reason for their raid. It's not a crime for those people who were dragged away to have had the wrong visas. It's a paperwork error.

 

Of course, it's far more likely that you're just making shit up. You can show us that you're telling the truth for once with a link.

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Originally posted by: MaxFlavorMaxFlavor

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That's exactly why I asked the question:

 

Can Hyundai invest in the USA?

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Sep 5, 2025
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"tom

Apr 25, 2025
8:03am

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Wow 17,000 cars; will the republic survive?

 

Meanwhile

 

On Monday, the Trump administration added Hyundai (OTC:HYMTF) to the list, with the conglomerate planning to announce a $20 billion U.S. investment. The South Korean company’s reported plan includes the construction of a $5 billion steel plant in Louisiana. The onshoring operation from Hyundai is expected to create 1,500 jobs."

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Do you think Hyundai has the workforce to build in the USA?

 

 

US immigration agents arrest hundreds in raid at Georgia Hyundai plant | Reuters

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Trump likes to announce big "agreements"(promises, probably "pinkie swear" promises) and then MAGA enthusiastically trumpets the news. Then nothing happens. 

 

My original question is: Do you think Hyundai has access to the specialized workforce that it needs to build in the USA? Besides arresting and deporting everyone in sight, does the Trump administration have any, I mean ANY, policy proposal in congress to facilitate a huge amount of foreign investment that might require the ability to bring in foreign workers to deliver on these "pinkie swear" promises successfully?  

 

If your solution is to train US workers for the jobs, how long will that take, and who will do the training? It sounds like MAGA will be supporting a third term for Trump, to "get the job done."

 

Reuters

September 9, 2025

 

"For years, South Korean companies have said they struggle to obtain short-term work visas for specialists needed in their high-tech plants in the United States, and had come to rely on a grey zone of looser interpretation of visa rules under previous American administrations."

 

""It's extremely difficult to get an H-1B visa, which is needed for the battery engineers. That's why some people got B-1 visas or ESTA," said Park Tae-sung, vice chairman of Korea Battery Industry Association, referring to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization."

"tom

Apr 25, 2025
8:03am

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Wow 17,000 cars; will the republic survive?

 

Meanwhile

 

On Monday, the Trump administration added Hyundai (OTC:HYMTF) to the list, with the conglomerate planning to announce a $20 billion U.S. investment. The South Korean company’s reported plan includes the construction of a $5 billion steel plant in Louisiana. The onshoring operation from Hyundai is expected to create 1,500 jobs."

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Do you think Hyundai has the workforce to build in the USA?

 

 

US immigration agents arrest hundreds in raid at Georgia Hyundai plant | Reuters

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Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

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It seems that this issue could have been resolved with a phone call or an email rather than a Gestapo raid. So why did the Turd do this? My feeling is that since he's on a crusade to undo everything Biden did, and those workers are there because of an agreement that Biden made with Hyundai in 2022, one of his lackeys suggested reneging on the agreement, take that, haha, and the Turd enthusiastically endorsed the plan.

 

That, and EV batteries are woke. Anything that helps mitigate climate change should be stopped, says MAGA.

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