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.
上周美国移民和海关执法局(US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)的一次突击行动中，工人被脚镣、手铐和腰链铐住的冲击性画面，势必对在美运营或计划赴美投资的外国公司产生寒蝉效应。在佐治亚一座正在由现代(Hyundai)和LG公司建设的电池工厂中，475名工人被拘留，其中大多为韩国公民；行动动用直升机、装甲车辆及全副武装的特工，显然经过精心编排，意在向唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)的基本盘传递信号，并震慑国际企业遵守美国签证规定。然而这种视觉冲击可能适得其反，反而阻碍总统振兴美国制造业的计划。