Dramatic images of workers shackled at the ankles, wrists and waist during a raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week will have a chilling effect on foreign companies with operations, or plans to invest, in America. The detention of 475 workers, mostly South Korean nationals, at a battery plant being built by Hyundai and LG in Georgia, which involved helicopters, armoured vehicles and heavily armed agents, was clearly choreographed to send a message to Donald Trump’s base, and to shock international businesses into respecting US visa rules. Instead, the optics could backfire on the president’s plans to reinvigorate America’s manufacturing sector.
上周美國移民和海關執法局(US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)的一次突擊行動中，工人被腳鐐、手銬和腰鏈銬住的沖擊性畫面，勢必對在美運營或計劃赴美投資的外國公司產生寒蟬效應。在佐治亞一座正在由現代(Hyundai)和LG公司建設的電池工廠中，475名工人被拘留，其中大多為韓國公民；行動動用直升機、裝甲車輛及全副武裝的特工，顯然經過精心編排，意在向唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的基本盤傳遞信號，并震懾國際企業遵守美國簽證規定。然而這種視覺沖擊可能適得其反，反而阻礙總統振興美國制造業的計劃。