In a sign of the nearby ties that have been tensioned by the raid in one of the largest American investment projects in South Korea, the best commercial envoy in the country was headed to the United States on Monday while the two countries work to obtain the final details of a tariff agreement agreed in July.
Around 475 people, including more than 300 South Koreans, 307 men and 10 women, were arrested in the raid on September 4 at the battery plant for immigration of the United States and other federal officials who said they were investigating accusations of illegal labor practices.
The immigration and customs control of the United States (ICE) said that those arrested in the operation worked illegally or had overcome their visas.
The president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, has called the “disconcerting” raid, added that he would discourage future investment in the United States.
But Trump said it is not necessary to be the case.
“I do not want to scare or discourage investment in the United States in external countries or companies,” he wrote in Truth’s social publication.
“We welcome you, we welcome your employees and we are willing to say with pride that we will learn from them, and we will do it even better than them in their own” game “, at some point in the not too distant future!” Added the president.
Trump said foreign workers had experience on how to make “unique and complex products”, such as chips and semiconductors.
“I want them to bring their specialization people for a period of time to teach and train our people on how to do these unique and complex products, as they leave our country and return to their lands,” he said.
“Chips, semiconductors, computers, ships, trains and so many other products that we have to learn from others how to do or, in many cases, learn again, because we used to be great in that, but no longer,” he added.
