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Hyundai ICE Raid Detained Workers With Short-Term Business Visas

Last week’s immigration operation at a battery plant highlighted a tactic that companies use to bring in foreign workers to establish new operations.

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Some of the people taken into custody during the raid of a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia came to the United States on visas for short-term business travel.
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US Poverty Rate Was Stable in 2024, as Household Income Rose Slightly

As pandemic subsidies disappeared, wages kept workers just ahead of inflation, although gaps have widened for some groups.

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Staff members and volunteers of a food bank distributed groceries in Pojoaque, N.M., in June. Last year, 29 percent of the organization’s budget came from government funding.
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