Pondering

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?

Seven Humble Thoughts

1.  Today, I opened up the news (via Twitter) and found that about a decade ago....Citizen Donald Trump became some secret-agent-informant to the FBI on Epstein's isle and the BS going on there.   Even the House Speaker (Johnson) is telling a bit of the story.  

Amazing....I'll probably wake up next week and find that Trump wrote five of the scripts for Charlie's Angels.

2. It's just fascinating....this time in 2024....you might have one scene or video of President Biden in a day....showing him alive (not much else).  2025?  There's probably twenty video-clips per day of Trump doing 'something'.

3.  Something that looks great on paper.....means 'crap' unless you apply, test, modify and improve....in reality.

4.   In case you were wondering how the Roman Empire fell....it started with economic decline....snowballing into daily corruption, and eventually there was this overreliance on slave labor which strained resources. Invasions became a regular event....with stability regularly discussed.  The final blow?  Around 476 AD...the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was taken down by the Germanic tribal chief....Odoacer.

5.  Watching the US Navy attack on the drug-boat from Venezuela....I tried to have sympathy for the boat-cartel-guys.....but I can't seem to find such sympathy.  The next boat?  I'm guessing the going price for a 'run' just tripled.

6.   I have this new syndrome that I've invented....it's called the 'fairy-tale-syndrome', where you believe something....like trans-stuff, or that the three bears did have a run-in with Goldilocks, or that demons live under the basement floor.   

7.  My impression of the 3I/ATLAS space 'rock'?  I think it's a 99-percent space-rock.  However....as it passes Mars (behind it).....if it doesn't appear  on the other side as expected....it's parked there, and pretending not to exist.  In this scenario...it's 100-percent aliens.