> amazing that theres so much sympathy towards giant Korean megacorp

At some level stories are told in a way in which there is a good-guy and a bad-guy and the megacorp drew the good-guy straw this time. It was just a few years ago a Hyundai owned subsidiary was caught in the US employing underage people from Guatemala [0].

0. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...

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mattnewton 2 days ago | parent [-]

When that happened, did they give the company a court date or did they raid the factory and detain the children? That’s the difference here.

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adolph a day ago | parent | next [-]

The article insinuates an unannounced visit:

After Reuters documented the disappearance of the young girl who worked at SMART, a team of state and federal authorities conducted the Aug. 9 inspection at SL, in Alexander City. They discovered seven minors there, including the two Guatemalan brothers, among employees making lights and mirrors for Hyundai and Kia. Alabama’s Department of Labor fined SL and JK USA Inc, a staffing agency, $17,800 each.

	▲	mattnewton a day ago \| parent [-]
		So it sounds like they gave them a fine and potentially a court date instead of taking hostages. That's my point.

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bpt3 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you give a court date to the company and allow hundreds of people who are presumably in the country illegally to remain free until said court date?

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Tadpole9181 a day ago | parent [-]

Don't pretend to not know the point. Rich executives and profiteers are the ones committing the actual crime. They're coordinating hundreds of people around with the express intent of using illegal labor to subvert local wages and workers' rights.

But every time one of these busts happen, no executives go to jail. They bust in, grab potentially hundreds of instances of those executives committing felonies, and pretend those working class people are the problem, quietly letting the execs giggle away to the bank. Often with a fee single digits percents of what they saved / made.

If there were 300 people here working illegally, I want to see multiple Hyundai executive charged with 300 counts of the associated felony crime.

	▲	bpt3 a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Don't pretend to not know the point. Rich executives and profiteers are the ones committing the actual crime. They're coordinating hundreds of people around with the express intent of using illegal labor to subvert local wages and workers' rights. Then charge them with the appropriate crime. > But every time one of these busts happen, no executives go to jail. They bust in, grab potentially hundreds of instances of those executives committing felonies, and pretend those working class people are the problem, quietly letting the execs giggle away to the bank. Often with a fee single digits percents of what they saved / made. Okay, then fix that instead of deciding to allow a bunch of people who are here illegally to remain because you're upset that other people aren't being charged. > If there were 300 people here working illegally, I want to see multiple Hyundai executive charged with 300 counts of the associated felony crime. Fine by me. Not sure why you're ranting at me about this tangent from the question I asked the parent poster.