Anger in Seoul as Trump calls detained South Korea workers 'illegal aliens'

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30. "the wages they wanted were too high" - how high were they?

by chance do you have that data?

I'm not totally hostile to your points, but I think you have a tough sell generally, even with many Democrats, when you argue from the perspective that "a company must bring in foreign workers because American workers want too much pay". That is EXACTLY the point of raising the price of foreign goods to help American businesses compete with American labor. (not that I agree with Trump approach on tariffs - this thinking is WAY too simplistic - but simple is how many people need it and you will not win the argument by actually admitting that the goal is to undercut the pay of Americans.)

Your other points might get some more traction, although I somewhat question that candidates lack motivation or education. I give a lot more credit to the idea that the plant was located in a place where it is hard to find enough candidates to be appropriately selective.

Also note that some of the people they detained were here only temporary, to oversee or review some specific part of the job. Your argument is not applicable to them - these are not tasks that would go to on site workers anyway.