Georgia, Hyundai and ICE
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On Sunday, South Korean officials said they would send a plane to bring the detained workers home. Earlier, South Korea's Foreign Minister said his nation was "deeply concerned" by the arrests.
The operation targeted one of Georgia's largest and most high-profile manufacturing sites, where Hyundai makes electric vehicles and is building an EV battery plant.
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Auto workers union condemns Hyundai working conditions in wake of federal raid on Georgia site
UAW condemns Hyundai for poor worker safety record following immigration raid at Georgia electric car battery factory that detained 475 people.
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South Korea vows 'all-out efforts' to help hundreds detained in raid at Hyundai facility in Georgia
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun said he was “deeply concerned” and felt “heavy responsibilities for the arrests of our citizens.”
South Korea says it reached a deal with the U.S. to release more than 300 South Koreans detained in an immigration enforcement raid at a Georgia Hyundai plant.
"We're going to do more worksite enforcement operations," White House border advisor Tom Homan said on Sunday. "No one hires an illegal alien out of the goodness of their heart. They hire them because they can work them harder, pay them less, undercut the competition that hires U.S. citizen employees.”
A major immigration raid led to 475 people arrested at the Hyundai facility construction site that Biden previously promoted as a manufacturing win for America.
Hundreds of undocumented immigrants were apprehended during a sweeping immigration raid at a Georgia manufacturing facility Thursday, marking the latest example of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration at workplaces across the country.