U.S. State Department Officials Says He “Regrets” Illegal Immigration Crackdown of Korean Workers
The Lee administration is still playing the victim card over the detainment of the South Korean illegal immmigrants and the State Department is playing right into this narrative:
A senior U.S. state department official on Sunday expressed regrets over the recent mass detention of South Korean workers in America and vowed to prevent similar occurrences.
Christopher Landau, deputy secretary of state, visited Seoul for a meeting with South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo.
According to Seoul’s foreign ministry, Landau conveyed his deep regrets over the detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in an immigration crackdown earlier this month at an electric vehicle battery plant construction site for a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution in Bryan County, Georgia. A total of 316 South Korean workers returned home Friday, after being held in a detention center for a week.
Landau also said U.S. President Donald Trump has a keen interest in the matter and ensured that those who have returned home will not face any disadvantages when reentering the United States. The state department official said Washington would try to ensure there would be no further incidents of a similar nature in the future.
Landau proposed working-level talks on issuing proper visas for South Korean workers in the U.S., citing a need to provide institutional support for South Korean corporations’ investments that contribute to the American economy and manufacturing.
In response, Park touched upon inconveniences that South Korean workers faced while in detention and said the general public in South Korea, in addition to the workers themselves, felt deeply shocked by the crackdown.
According to the ministry, Park also strongly urged the U.S. to take practical steps and implement systematic improvements to ease South Korean people’s concerns.
You can read more at the link, but the message Landau should have matched what U.S. Commerce Secretary Lutnick recently said that the U.S. wants Korean business, just come in on a proper visa. If you are having problems let us know and we will resolve it. Instead this “regret” wording just feeds into the victim narrative the Lee administration is promoting.
Left out of this story is that 475 illegals were arrested but only 316 were Korean.
Let’s hear about those other 149.
This story might be 3/5 “specialized Korean expert labor” and 2/5 “Why hire Americans when Mexicans are cheaper.”
Why is there a media blackout on this?
One mainstream source said there were 10 Chinese, 3 Japanese, and 1 indonesian. It is unclear what they were doing.
Obviously NO Chinese should be working on anything in America except laundries. Even railroads are too sesitive of infrastructure for modern, crafty Chinese.
Modern propaganda ensures people don’t ask the right questions.
“My waist and hands were tied together, and I had to bow my head and lick it to drink water. In the bathroom without a screen, there was only a piece of cloth to cover her lower body. There was almost no sunlight through the gap in the hole the size of a fist, and they were only allowed to go out into the small yard for two hours. Workers and their families who were detained by U.S. immigration authorities complained of shock at the 2025 elections, telling them about human rights violations and absurdities that they had never imagined while living as ordinary Koreans.”
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1218653.html
Fire this moron immediately.
@GIKorea
Did you read Trump’s latest Truth Social post?
When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other “things,” come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land. If we didn’t do this, all of that massive Investment will never come in the first place — Chips, Semiconductors, Computers, Ships, Trains, and so many other products that we have to learn from others how to make, or, in many cases, relearn, because we used to be great at it, but not anymore.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115204049358078594
Even Trump, in his own way, is showing “regret” and echoing the same talking points as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.
It’s the Commerce Secretary and the Gismaga crowd who sound unreasonable.
“Even Trump, in his own way, is showing “regret” and echoing the same talking points as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.”
No he isn’t.
He is saying foreigners can come in but only if they train Americans.
In this case, the Korean companies went out of their way to ensure no Americans got trained.
But that won’t happen again.
It must constantly anger you that reality never turns out the way you expect. This is one reason the left is always so angry.
The factory will be finished and Americans will learn from it (just like the 10 Chinese who were also illegally working).
In this case, the Korean companies went out of their way to ensure no Americans got trained.
Like @setnaffa , spreader of fake news and misinformation.
Who said the Korean technicians installing the machinery won’t train Americans?
The factory would have created 8,000 local
jobs.
It is obvious you would need to train the locals to operate the machinery.
Of course, thanks to Gismaga, the factory won’t be completed anytime soon and no local jobs until the factory is completed.
“Who said the Korean technicians installing the machinery won’t train Americans?”
Trump said it and delayed their deportation by a day to encourage them to stay and train Americans.
They appear to have refused and slunk off back to Korea.
Maybe they were training the illegal Chinese?
“Of course, thanks to Gismaga, the factory won’t be completed anytime soon and no local jobs until the factory is completed.”
Hahaha! Of course it will. It costs Korean companies tens of thousands of dollars a day (or hundreds) to just have it sitting there.
Koreans are horrid programmers but they are quite good at resolving issues like this.
They will apply for the proper visas which will be expadited through cooperation on both sides.
Factory construction will restart in less than 3 months, probably 2, possibly 1.
This will have zero effect on investment in America beyond everyone follow immigration law.