Koreans Detained in Immigration Crackdown Return Home
The return of the detained Koreans is now complete:
A total of 316 Korean workers who were detained in a recent U.S. immigration crackdown headed back home aboard a chartered plane Thursday, in a voluntary yet bitter departure amid renewed questions in Seoul over U.S. credibility as a reliable ally.
The Korean Air plane carrying them and 14 non-Korean nationals took off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta at noon, a week after their arrest in the raid at an electric vehicle battery plant construction site for a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution in Bryan County, Georgia.
You can read more at the link, but this immigration crackdown is ultimately going to be a good thing for Korean businesses. First of all the U.S. government saying these detained workers will not be disadvantaged from receiving a proper work visa in the future.
Secondly the U.S. government is going to set up a working group to expand employee visas for Korean businesses operating in the U.S. It appears that these businesses have been able to skirt immigration laws for so long there was never an urgency to get the situation fixed. Now due to enforcement there is an urgency to fix the problem which in the long run is good for Korean businesses.
Korean companies knowingly violated US immigration laws but the Korea Times has the temerity to suggest America is an unreliable ally?
That’s pretty rich. And smells like Beijing.
@setnaffa
That’s pretty rich considering you are receiving money from Russia and China as payment for your laptop farm.
Every newspaper editorial in Korea is now controlled by or written in Beijing.