[jjani]

> I happen to know someone well who works for a Korean Conglomerate building industrial/car batteries in the US.

You could just say you know someone at LG ;)

> However, ICE didn't need to arrest everyone. All they needed to do was send a warning. These companies don't want the trouble, they would comply.

The point is to reach quotas. Warnings and voluntary exits don't help with those.

> Now you have many Koreans very upset.

FWIW, the reaction among Koreans (i.e. in korea), especially the younger generation, has been quite mixed. Among age 20-39, only a minority expressed being "disappointed with the US' excessive measures". Among the older groups, the majority did react negatively.

[sterlind]

> Among age 20-39, only a minority expressed being "disappointed with the US' excessive measures."

huh? why??

[jjani]

The most common reasons among those who did not express disappointment:

- They'd want the very same thing to happen if the roles were reversed: foreign companies in Korea bringing in hundreds of people on questionable visas

- The companies knew exactly what they were doing, that it was illegal and that they were at risk. This had been coming for some time. Cases had been starting to pop up of those trying to do multiple consecutive visa runs (blatant abuse, but often instructed by these same companies) being denied.

- The employees who get sent on these business trips are often privileged and rich, so some take pleasure in seeing them not get away with something for once.

- Korean young MAGAs who love the concept of deportation and the current US gov