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by Eddy_Viscosity2 290 days ago
Factory workers are easy targets compared with actual criminals. So ICE goes after them to meet their quotas. It could also be that the Hyandai executives weren't contributing enough to the right parties so had to be made an example of. Could be both.
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Yes the Hyundai president left his gold brick at home
Trump did get a metal turtle ship model made by one "Oh Jeong-chul, a master from HD Hyundai", gifted by Korean president Lee Jae-myung. But maybe Trump forgot that. He's getting old after all, and it was more than a week ago how could we expect him to remember.
Probably wasn't kitschy enough
Or you know could be that corporate execs blatantly violating immigration laws. They would never, i know
> corporate execs blatantly violating immigration laws

That's the fun part. They all are violating immigration laws. The country is run on cheap immigrate labor. What we are seeing is selective enforcement.

> What we are seeing is selective enforcement.

Doesn't appear to be the case considering all the ICE news lately... On the contrary seems like they're enforcing white-collar immigration laws too now.

Also i'm willing to bet it was a tip off by a pissed off vendor or local union or something.

> seems like they're enforcing white-collar immigration laws too now

Are they applying them to equally to corps that are politically connected to, and give big money to Trump?