U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that foreign companies can bring their employees to the country for “a while” to train Americans, following the controversy with South Korea over the immigration raid on 475 workers at a Hyundai plant.
The president also stated that he does not want to “scare or discourage investment in the United States from foreign countries or companies” in a publication on his social network, Truth Social.
Defends temporary income
“When foreign companies that are building extremely complex products, machines, or various other ‘things’ come to the United States with massive investments, I want them to bring their expert people for a period of time to teach and train our people to make these very unique and complex products,” Trump said.
His statements come days after the return to South Korea of 316 South Korean workers, out of a total of 475 from various countries.
That the Trump Administration halted on September 4 at a Hyundai plant in Georgia, the largest immigration raid on a worksite so far in the Administration.
Raid casts doubt on South Korean investment
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung warned Thursday that the operation undermined the confidence of his country’s companies to invest in the United States.
While his foreign ministry claimed to the press that Trump asked South Korean officials to “encourage” the workers to stay.
Without referring to this specific event, the U.S. president justified the need to bring in foreign employees.
Because, otherwise, “all that massive investment would never come in the first place.”
Asks to learn from foreign companies
In addition, Trump acknowledged that the U.S. “has to learn from others” or “relearn” how to make products such as chips, semiconductors, computers, ships and trains.
“We welcome them (foreign companies), we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say that we will learn from them, and even do better than them at their own ‘game,’ sometime in the not too distant future,” Trump concluded, EFE reported.
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