The ICE Raid on the Georgia Hyundai Plant Makes No Sense
The White House says it wants foreign investment in manufacturing. This is an odd way of showing it.
Kemp’s big achievement just got complicated.
Photographer: Vincent Alban/BloombergIt doesn’t make any sense. Last week, the Trump administration executed the largest single-site immigration raid in US history at a Hyundai Motor Co.-LG Energy Solution Ltd. battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia.
The surprise raid antagonized South Korea, one of America’s closest allies and a country that had signed a $350 billion trade pact with President Donald Trump just weeks earlier. It contradicted Trump’s stated immigration policy of removing the “worst of the worst” by detaining workers employed to help meet Trump’s goal of expanding manufacturing in the US. And by releasing video footage of South Korean nationals shackled at the wrists and ankles, Immigration and Customs Enforcement managed to humiliate South Korean businesses and investment firms that had recently pledged billions to expand operations in the US.