So much for the myth that illegal aliens only take jobs Americans don’t want …

By Monica Showalter

Last week’s raid on a huge electrical battery plant in Georgia, netting 475 illegal aliens, put paid to the myth that those foreigners illegally present in our country only take jobs Americans don’t want. Actually, they’re like anyone else, and take the good jobs when they can get them.

According to the New York Times:

Immigration officials arrested nearly 500 workers, most of them South Korean citizens, at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia on Thursday, as the Trump administration continues its far-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration.

The raid, which U.S. officials have called the largest-ever Homeland Security enforcement operation at a single location, stirred tensions with the South Korean government, a valued trade partner of the United States. It also revealed competing interests within the Trump administration between the president’s push to expand manufacturing in the United States and his aggressive efforts to crack down on immigration. The plant at the center of the operation was co-owned by the South Korean carmaker Hyundai.

U.S. immigration authorities said the detained employees — many of them hired by subcontractors to help finish the plant’s construction — were working or living in the United States illegally.

Here’s what ran in the press last year at the announcement of the LG plant with its large foreign investment:

Georgia and southeast coastal counties are subsidizing Hyundai and its suppliers in the form of $2.1 billion in tax breaks, construction costs, discount land and other perks, a deal that Gov. Brian Kemp announced would produce good-paying jobs for hard-working Georgians.

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