South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

It has now emerged that Trump asked his officials to “encourage” the detained South Korean workers to extend their stay in the country and train American employees, foreign ministry officials in Seoul said at a briefing.

The president “emphasised that the detained Korean nationals were skilled workers and suggested they either remain in the U.S. to contribute to training the American workforce or be returned to South Korea, depending on Seoul’s stance”, a South Korean official said, according to the Financial Times.

Many of the arrested workers were exhausted and in shock and foreign minister Cho Hyun suggested that they instead return immediately to their home country. They could be allowed to go back to the U.S. for work later if necessary, the officials said.

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    I must apologize for the Americans. They are idiots. We have purposely trained them wrong, as a joke.

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    The probelm with people like trump is that hes too stupid to know hes stupid and too evil to care about anyone else.

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        At this point? … the idiocy is not in their actions … the idiocy is in the inaction of the rest of the country.

        I can only stomach saying how stupid someone is for so long … after a while, I start looking at the crowd of people standing around the idiot as they let him get away with everything.

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    …Isn’t that what most of them were doing anyway? They were setting up equipment and training people up?

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    The incompetence is off the charts, it’s obvious ICE are just racist goons who act first ask questions never.

    “Oh you want me to arrest people different than me? Oh hell yes!”

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      Yes. The American government is now the galactic empire of Trump, and you get resulting policies and foot soldiers to go with it. It’s what ya voted for, enjoy!

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      They are chasing those bonuses they are promised. The utter distaste I have toward them. I’m just thankful I haven’t encountered any of them.

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          If its up to trump he wont. He didn’t pay the contractors who built his failed Atlantic city casino. Ruined whole families when he didn’t and somehow people still trust his word. How do you lose money with a casino?

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    imagine all the vehicles made by people in place where the environment is not taken care of with high levels of pollution everywhere that also does not properly fund education and has just made sure that all the properly trained people from some other country that could work/train would not want to work there that could potentially be on United States roads soon

    fetal alcohol syndrome is also still a big issue so there is that too

    think about the factory close where currently staying that has had multiple fatal accidents this year with one of those involving a forklift having over thousand pounds on it that took a curve too hard and all the load fell on someone with only the head undamaged still talking

    where are we heading in the United States? back to no standards like when that chicken plant caught fire in North Carolina

    good ol’ days had some moments sure but overall they really sucked

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      And they’re real big on putting children to work in those plants again, soon too!

      Right after they’re done gutting OSHA as “government overreach that limits innovation.”

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    Amerikkka is being run by seriously fucking stupid Nazis. when will their unbound idiocy come back to bite them? Hopefully soon! It’s going to be eternally embarrassing if this clown regime actually cements anything long into the police state. My money is on the idea that it will all spectacularly come crashing down, and soon!

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    Trump probably: “We threatened them over and over, brandished weapons and hid our faces! We treated them like animals. Gave them every opportunity to see how we dominate them, even the ones here legally. Why do they not want to work here!”