We told you last week about one of the biggest ICE raids ever performed at the construction of a Hyundai and LG battery plant in Georgia.
Well, as it turns out this construction site raid wasn't just picking up day laborers brought in from the local Home Depot.
Instead it was a bust of a scheme allegedly being pulled by Hyundai. 300 of the 475 arrested were Korean nationals who were brought over by abuse of the visa system.
From Breitbart:
ICE agents detained 450 illegal migrants at a construction site in Georgia, including hundreds of fly-in Koreans who likely misused B-1/B-2 business tourist visas to take jobs from American construction workers ...
Hyundai 'is a repeat offender,' Jay Palmer, an immigration expert who works with immigration lawyers, told Breitbart News. 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, he said.
These battery plants received massive tax incentives from state governments. Even Republican politicians boasted about them, talking about American jobs and economic prosperity.
Hyundai seemingly repaid that by hiring illegal Korean workers.
More from Breitbart:
'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,' Palmer explained.
The airport migrants are just basic economics for the CEOs, he said. 'Why hire an American worker that might be unionized and you have to pay them $20, $25, $30 an hour, when you can hire a foreign worker and pay them $5, $6, $7, $8 an hour, and you don't have to pay insurance on them?'
Here is reportedly one of the people who reported Hyundai to ICE:
If this rumor is true, and if you've lived in places near immigrants you know it's possible, this seems almost indistinguishable from slave labor and trafficking.
How deep does the rot go?
P.S. Now check out our latest video 👇
