The chief executive of Hyundai has said that the ICE raid will delay by months the construction of the plant, which had been touted by the Trump administration as an example of investment in the United States. The South Korean auto industry continued to grow, and by 1986 it had entered the U.S. market, where Japanese autos already had a foothold. In one year (1979-1980), Big Three automobile sales dropped 20 percent, and almost a quarter-million U.S. auto workers lost their jobs. (Ironically, auto workers in Japan and Korea are unionized while their American counterparts who work for the same companies are not. Japanese auto production accounts for one third of U.S. auto production and employs 110,000 people in 25 plants across the United States.