Trump did get a metal turtle ship model made by one "Oh Jeong-chul, a master from HD Hyundai", gifted by Korean president Lee Jae-myung. But maybe Trump forgot that. He's getting old after all, and it was more than a week ago how could we expect him to remember.

> corporate execs blatantly violating immigration laws

That's the fun part. They all are violating immigration laws. The country is run on cheap immigrate labor. What we are seeing is selective enforcement.

Right, but my point is that isueing (very embarassing) orders for those workers, to leave, knowing that these workers would have only the vaugest, or no, notion of the laws involved in the contract, as they very likely could not fill out any of the paper work themselves, VS a mass arrest that will likely derail further investment from some of the major allies of the US. The net effect of this and other actions looks something like a modern equivilant of the Chinese "Cultural Revolution", but with an economy vastly more integrated and dependent with the rest of the world, but with no clear policy statement, and edicts bieng issued and revoked on a day to day basis. The US could have told the Korean's , go home, in a soto voice, they would blush, go home, and ask for another chance to do business, that it was 500 workers @ a major new car plant means that they were given some sort of "dont worry about it" verbal assurance, and have been double crossed, which is a game changer.