Yesterday, September 4, ICE agents arrested around 475 foreign workers at a construction site in Georgia. Around 300 of those arrested were Korean natives, here on tourist visas who were flown in to work illegally on the project. The project is a battery factory, being built for two Korean companies: Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution Ltd.
Jay Palmer, an immigration expert working with immigration lawyers, told Breitbart News that Hyundai is a “repeat offender”:
Like other companies, including Mercedes, Kia, and Tesla, Hyundai executives use staffing companies to legally shield themselves as they fly airport migrants to job sites. They push the people [job applicants] to staffing agencies, and then they hire them from staffing agencies, and then think they’re shielded by the law because they have a master service agreement that states [immigration status] is not their responsibility. This is happening in every industry, especially in meat processing plants …It’s just egregious.
The arrests prompted the government of South Korea to express its “concern and regret” over the incident, adding that the “economic activities of our companies investing in the U.S. and the rights and interests of our nationals must not be unfairly violated.”
Nor, we might add, should the laws of the host country be violated, “unfairly” or otherwise.
For more, see Breitbart News.