Seoul, South Korea – More than 300 years old Immigration raid The South Korean government announced on Sunday at the Hyundai factory in Georgia and brought it home.
Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon Sick said that South Korea and the United States have finished negotiations on the release of workers. He said that South Korea is planning to send a rented plane to bring workers home as soon as the remaining administrative steps were completed.
The US immigration authorities said on Friday that they had detained 475 people, most of whom were South Korea citizens, Matthew Hundreds of federal agents raided The sprawling Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia where the Korean company Hyundai is manufacturing electric cars. South Korea Foreign Minister Chu Hyun later said that more than 300 South Koreans were among the detainees.
The process was the latest long line of the workplace raids that were conducted as part of the Trump administration Collective deportation agenda. But the person on Thursday is especially distinguished because of his large size and the fact that he targeted an employee at the manufacturing site, and has long called on the largest economic development project in Georgia.
A video released by the United States of Migration and Customs on Saturday showed a convoy of vehicles that lead to the site, then federal agents direct workers abroad. Some of the detainees ordered their hands to be placed on a bus, where they were equipped and then resided around their hands, ankles and waist.
The agents focused on their operation on a factory that is still under construction, in which Hyundai partnered with LG Energy Solution Batter’s production That power EVS.
Most of the detained people were transferred to the immigration detention center in Volkson, Georgia, near the Florida state line. No crimes have yet been charged.
The South Korean government, an American ally, expressed “anxiety and remorse” on the raid targeting its citizens and sent diplomats to the site.