From Fox News: President Donald Trump said Sunday that while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was right to arrest South Korean immigrants working illegally at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, the U.S. should consider letting foreign experts temporarily stay to train Americans in advanced industries.
Homeland Security Investigations said 475 people — mostly South Koreans — were arrested at the under-construction battery plant. Hyundai said it owns the site but insisted none of the workers were directly employed by the company.
When asked about the ICE operation on Sunday, Trump told reporters the U.S. needs experts who know how to build batteries to help train Americans with no such experience.
“It’s a battery factory… when they’re building batteries, if you don’t have people in this country right now that know about batteries, maybe we should help them along and let some people come in and train our people to do complex things, whether it’s battery manufacturing or computer manufacturing or building ships,” Trump said.
“So, we’re going to look at that whole situation. We have a lot of industries that we don’t have any more, and we’re going to have to train people. And the way you train people is bring people in that know what they’re doing and let me stay for a little while and help,” Trump added.
He clarified that ICE did the right thing because they people were here illegally.
“But we do have to work something out, where we bring in experts, so our people can be trained so they can do it themselves,” he continued.
Trump made the remarks while speaking to the press on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews Sunday evening.
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Later on Truth Social, Trump posted the following statement:
Following the Immigration Enforcement Operation on the Hyundai Battery Plant in Georgia, I am hereby calling on all Foreign Companies investing in the United States to please respect our Nation’s Immigration Laws. Your Investments are welcome, and we encourage you to LEGALLY bring your very smart people, with great technical talent, to build World Class products, and we will make it quickly and legally possible for you to do so.
What we ask in return is that you hire and train American Workers. Together, we will all work hard to make our Nation not only productive, but closer in unity than ever before. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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