U.S. To Target More Businesses After Hyundai Raid, Top Official Says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post/Reuters

Sep 7, 2025, 01:17 PM EDT


WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration plans to target more businesses for immigration enforcement after a raid on a Hyundai facility in Georgia led to hundreds of arrests, a top White House official said on Sunday.

Speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ White House border czar Tom Homan said the administration would intensify the focus on workplaces.

“We’re going to do more worksite enforcement operations,” Homan said. “No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition that hires U.S. citizen employees.”

Opponents of Trump’s crackdown and some business groups say major U.S. industries - including agriculture, hospitality and meatpacking - depend on immigrants without legal status.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. He makes more extortion money targeting businesses?

Trump is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to blackmail and extortion.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Thanks for the tip

Every entity and everyone should do a risk assessment.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Any person, business, entity of any sort with deep pockets is at risk. Severe risk.

Trump believes all of the US, money and resources belong to him.
People must pay for the privilege of living or doing business in the US.
Pay Trump directly or face consequences.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. There's no theoretical reason

why personal assets - 401Ks, retirement funds, insurance policies - are exempt. Congress can levy a tax on anything.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Trump and his billionaire pals are looking at any bucket of money they can steal.

Nothing would surprise me.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

24. President equals Landlord? nt

[Irish_Dem]

26. Yes this is the way Trump sees it, but he is a mob boss pulling an extortion racket.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Yeah, and restaurants, nursing homes, construction

Money in circulation and the velocity of money are being bone-dried and vacuumed off. Our standards of living will fall for decades and remain there.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Yes Trump is taking a big cut of everything.

I was thinking the same thing, our standard of living is going to plummet.

Will anything be restored?

[CrispyQ]

3. A 100% American workforce is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

I just want to wake up from this ridiculously mean stupid nightmare.

[JoseBalow]

8. The Art of the Shakedown

[North Coast Lawyer]

9. These guys don't have a clue.

Big factories have lots of parts. The companies who manufacture those parts send their process engineers to the factory site to make sure their companies parts are properly and effectively integrated into the whole that will eventually be a functioning factory. Parts made in Korea will be accompanied by Korean engineers, parts made in Brazil will be accompanied by Brazilian engineers, parts made in Germany by German engineers ... .

This is how global manufacturing works. Seems pretty obvious -- but apparently not to MAGA brained folks.

[Nigrum Cattus]

10. Did they arrest the people who hired these immigrants ?

Any accountability, anyone ?

[mdbl]

12. I was wondering that too. A company the size of Hyundai should not have this problem unless they are all using

fraudulent credentials. If that's the case they should be prosecuted.

[Gore1FL]

13. I have to wonder what level of bullshit has to happen before foreign companies start shutting down U.S. factories.

It'd certainly be a costly move, but with all that is going on, so might staying.

[RedArkGuy]

14. The rush to pay up will get going in earnest

This is the extortion part of crony capitalism. Nice business you've got there. Would be a shame if Jabba the Hut was turned loose on it like what happened at that Hyundai plant.

[Renew Deal]

15. Wouldn't it be more effecient to send letters?

Supposedly they spent months preparing for the Hyundai visit. So they allowed the "illegal" activity to continue for months just to make a spectacle.

There still hasn't been a good explanation of what Hyundai did wrong and why they went after workers instead of management.

[live love laugh]

16. Totally insane.

[AverageOldGuy]

17. They think Americans and will line up for these jobs

Never happen

Of the approx 300 Koreans who were hassled by ICE they were engineers, construction managers, or specialized construction workers who were building a factory to employ hundreds. They were all in the US on special 90-day work visas - nothing illegal about them. About a dozen of those arrested were senior people from Hyundai in the US to check progress of construction.

And now they are going to do the same thing to other foreign manufacturers. Will not be long before foreign companies declare piss on this, we are not building factories in the US

[GenThePerservering]

18. Way to drive yet more manufacturing out of the US, Dump nt

[OC375]

19. I Don't Get It

Were they here legally or not?

[Queso Delicioso]

20. Well, that will certainly invite & encourage foreign investment

My god what a tool. Short-sighted doesn't even begin to cover it. Not that he cares, he'll be dead within five years (or so I fervently hope)

[Karasu]

21. "They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition"...LOL! As if the GOP gives a

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flying fuck about employee salaries or being overworked.

They just want to do all that same shit to "real" American workers instead.

[JT45242]

22. Not charging the businesses with crimes and fines

Good cover for the cruelty

[Skittles]

23. translation

Hyundai paid up - big time

[SunSeeker]

25. Our economy is already teatering. This will hasten the looming recession. nt