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Companies around the world are learning a lesson en masse: Any deal you strike with President Donald Trump’s government comes with a giant asterisk. Because you might believe you’re cutting a deal that aligns with the Trump agenda of rebuilding American manufacturing, but even hundreds of billions of dollars committed to that project may not be enough.
See here: Last week, the administration ordered its largest immigration raid of Trump’s second term, sending nearly 500 armed officers to raid the construction site of a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia. They arrested 475 people, most of whom were South Korean nationals.
Per my CNN colleagues Graham Hurley and Dalia Faheid:
As officers, masked and carrying rifles, fanned across the sprawling site, they ordered construction workers to line up against walls, demanded dates of birth and Social Security numbers and began sorting who would be cleared to leave and who would be loaded onto buses bound for the Folkston ICE Processing Center, more than 100 miles away.Workers described the scene as a “war zone.” One hid in an air duct to avoid capture. Others tried to flee into a sewage pond; agents used a boat to fish them out and prosecutors later alleged one man tried to flip the vessel. By the end of the day, hundreds were gone. Construction at the 2,900-acre site stopped cold.
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