US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided Hyundai’s sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia, where the Korean automaker makes electric vehicles.
The Pew Research Center, citing preliminary Census Bureau data, said the US labour force lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January through July.
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.