President Donald Trump tried to do damage control after the Department of Homeland Security raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia and detained hundreds of workers with legal visas.
"When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.
"If we didn't do this, all of that massive Investment will never come in the first place — Chips, Semiconductors, Computers, Ships, Trains, and so many other products that we have to learn from others how to make, or, in many cases, relearn, because we used to be great at it, but not anymore," the president acknowledged.
"I don't want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies."
Despite placing the South Korean employees in shackles, Trump insisted on Sunday that "we welcome" foreign workers.
"We are willing to proudly say we will learn from them, and do even better than them at their own 'game,' sometime into the not too distant future!" he remarked.