Of the 475 individuals arrested during the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid at the Hyundai-LG battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia (5 Sep)....roughly 300 were South Koreans.
So far....no one has said how or why came to be.
I paused over this and pondered.
If you came to me....as head of HR, and said I ought to sign in some fraudulent way....475 folks for the plant, and all of them were to be non-American....I'd freak out and say 'no-way'. But this plant HR guy (and team)....didn't seem to have a problem.
How the South Koreans were brought in? I would take a guess that they all had tourist visas. The normal tourist visa is 90 days....but if you did the extra paperwork for the B-1/2.....you could stay as a tourist for six months. My guess is that all of the South Koreans detained....held the B-1/2 visa and were making a 6-month stay possible.
How the plant paid them their salary and took out the Social Security? Well....fraudulent methods, I assume.
The HR guy (and team)...going to a grand jury? Yeah, and this will be a very unpleasant situation....where ten years of prison might occur.
Plant 'boss' in trouble? If I were him.....I'd be on a plane to exit the US.
But here's the thing.....the plant will need six months now to find a new HR group....train up....hire 475 new folks, and train them up.....to reach production.
You can imagine the chaos here. Wendy calls 'dad'....saying her Hyundai job is dissolving and her bright career in HR is 'gone'....asking dad if he can recommend a lawyer.
The question now is....just how many folks are here on a B-1/2 tourist visa....and what exactly are they doing?
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Lefty media claims the 475 were here for construction….
Wouldn't matter what they were here for....if there isn't any work-visa or Green-Card....and the company was paying them for 'something'....it's a prosecution problem to clean up.
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