Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead? Because that’s what the H1B stuff (and most illegal immigrant-worker debate in general) has been about, and otherwise it’s only superficially similar.

AFAIK H1Bs follow the letter of the law and calls are for reform to make visas stricter / reduce the kinds of visas, which is basically the opposite of what I’m seeing here.

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alephnerd 14 hours ago | parent [-]

> Are there US workers who should have been hired to do this factory-bootstrapping instead

Yes. Of these companies [0], Hyundai-LG has been the only malcontent

The European and Japanese manufacturers haven't done anything similar - only the Koreans are.

[0] - https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/tracking-the-ev-battery-fa...

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blargey 13 hours ago | parent [-]

That link only lists some companies that have built factories (or are trying to), and nothing about how they were built.

	▲	alephnerd 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not a single one of them have had an immigration raid like Hyundai-LG. It would have been MASSIVE news like the ongoing one if it happened. Hyundai has been notorious about this for decades in the US, like the ongoing child labor scandal [0] [0] - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...