The Hyundai Plant ICE Raid Proves Immigration Laws Need Fixing
If the US still wants to attract the best and brightest, it needs to focus less on blind enforcement.
Not the problem, not the solution.
Photographer: Corey Bullard/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement/AP PhotoTwo things were surprising about the recent immigrant-worker raid in Georgia. One is that it happened at all, given that it spoils what President Trump could otherwise celebrate as a notable victory in his trade war. The other is that it almost brought the president to admit that somebody slipped up.
Last week federal agents descended on an EV-battery plant under construction by Hyundai Motor Co. near Savannah, Georgia. They arrested 475 workers, mostly South Koreans, on suspicion of visa violations, shackling them like dangerous criminals and putting them in detention. They were still there days later, amid protests in Seoul, while the South Korean government negotiated with US authorities over the workers’ release.