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Samsung must have corporate beef with them because my autocorrect is set to Hyandai and not Hyundai lmao
It will suggest misspelled words if you keep using them.
I am deeply skeptical of your story. This is the kind of thing that's super-easy to prove, and I feel like if they were finding real immigration fraud at this plant, they would be half-likely to actually try to enforce against it since that was exactly what they did the raid for and it would have been detected in 2 seconds once they started checking IDs. And even if not, it would be half-likely that that aspect of the story would leak to the press in some form at some point.
The whole thing where your phone autocorrected a real word to a totally nonexistent word makes me further skeptical of the whole thing. I won't say either is impossible, but they both seem unlikely.
It seems plausible to me. Large corporations doing weird stuff are nothing new. I don't know how much they'd save by doing this, and it's obviously not worth it, especially these days, but I can certainly see them entertaining the idea, or implementing it. Unlikely as it is.
Oh, I can certainly believe that Hyundai would do this. My thought process actually went something along the lines of:
I think if the explanation for "Hyandai" had been "oh my bad lol" then I wouldn't have really felt any particular strong skepticism, but that aspect pushed it over the edge to me.
I'm just gonna chalk it up to the Samsung keyboard being complete garbage lol, I was joking about the corporate beef.
As for Hyundai, yeah it sounds sketchy because it's "I heard from someone" which may as well just be made up, but I didn't add any details because it gets a little too close to disclosing personal info.
But tbf this is lemmy and I would have questioned the same thing, so here goes:
I live <2 hours away from one of Hyundai's Georgia plants and personally know someone who works for Hyundai at raided plant who gave all the details of what he knows (along with some pictures of helicopters during the raid lol).
According to him, they primarily targeted the LG portion of the facility, which is across the road from the Hyundai section. They had everyone come outside for the lineup and verification of ID, before they took whoever they wanted away. In his own words, it was a "massive operation and totally overkill for whatever they discovered."
A group of us were discussing the implications, because we always assumed the large Korean immigrant population in our area was primarily here on legal work visas (they are, 500 is nothing compared to the current population). We just didn't expect Hyundai/LG to be skirting around for cheap foreign labor via visit visas.*
He doesn't know how DHS/ICE figured them out or how Hyundai was documenting this process, but he did hear people talk about the visit visa process long before this, meaning it wasn't some huge secret (DHS may already have been aware of this a long time ago). There are other similar visa exploit tricks several companies use that DHS has recently been trying to shutdown or change (stuff like multiple applications for a visa for only one person to increase draw rate).
Anyways, the general concenus was that even though the visit visa was providing jobs, it was technically exploit labor since workers would not have been receiving any US employment benefits or equivalent salary. Hyundai is primarily the one at fault here, but they really didn't need to do a massive raid for this. They could have just as easily sent a single squad to show up and do ID checks, or even just knock on home addresses of everyone they identified on a non work visa.
Obviously no one wants to give ICE any more ammo for their existence, but I think they've been pocketing this and waited for a while so they can get all the clout with some big headlines after a couple of months of desperately detaining anyone even remotely foreign.
You can find details about both the visit visas and LG plant corroborated in the news. Ex: https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-us-georgia-raid-hyundai-24d990562f5ac20e7d3e983a77a4f7ff
*fwiw it does seem more like they are dancing around the increasingly stricter visa requirements to get work done, and not just some cheap labor exploit, especially considering the amount of immigrants here on valid work visas for all the other jobs.